Usually means: Thrown piece of broken brick.
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General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. brickbat: Merriam-Webster
  2. brickbat: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. brickbat: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. brickbat: Collins English Dictionary
  5. brickbat: Vocabulary.com
  6. brickbat: Wordnik
  7. brickbat: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. brickbat: Wiktionary
  9. brickbat: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. brickbat: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. brickbat: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Brickbat, brickbat: Dictionary.com
  13. Brickbat: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. brickbat: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. brickbat: Rhymezone
  16. Brickbat: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. brickbat: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. brickbat: FreeDictionary.org
  19. brickbat: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. brickbat: TheFreeDictionary.com
  21. brickbat: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. BRICKBAT: Acronym Finder

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Brickbat: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  A piece of brick, rock, etc., especially when used as a weapon (for example, thrown or placed in a sock or other receptacle and used as a club).
noun:  (figurative) A piece of (sharp) criticism or a (highly) uncomplimentary remark.
verb:  To attack (someone or something) by swinging or throwing brickbats (noun sense 1).
verb:  (figurative) To assail (someone or something) with (sharp) criticism.

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