Definitions for brickbats

brickbats brick·bat

Spelling: [brik-bat]
IPA: /ˈbrɪkˌbæt/

Brickbats is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 18 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 21 points.

You can make 389 anagrams from letters in brickbats (abbcikrst).

Definitions for brickbats

noun

  1. a piece of broken brick, especially one used as a missile.
  2. any rocklike missile.
  3. an unkind or unfavorable remark; caustic criticism:

Origin of brickbats

First recorded in 1555-65; brick + bat1

Examples for brickbats

I said, just now, he might be at once outshone by a brickbat.

It was a brickbat “Plug Ugly” fight—the result of animal, and not intellectual or patriotic instincts.

Then came a brickbat, which missed the woman by very little and struck the truck wheel.

Well, it was a temptation to let something fly, be it Bible or brickbat, at the head of the average dullard.

It was a brickbat, sure, one of Maje Sampson's brickbat boys.

But he came back with a brickbat and hammered like a blacksmith at the spring.

Well, Pat, Jimmy didn't quite kill you with a brickbat, did he?

I caught him, put him back, and placed a brickbat over the hole.

There isn't a mineral in Louisiana, unless it is a brickbat.

There is no more soul in him than there is in a brickbat, mother.

Word Value for brickbats
Scrable

18

Words with friends

21

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