brickbats
Small rocky particles moving as a group in space, especially as forming rings around…Small rocky particles moving as a group in space, especially as forming rings around planets.
Meaning
1 senses(informal, plural, plural only)Small rocky particles moving as a group in space, especially as forming rings around planets.
Origin
From brickbat + -s. The plural only sense (“small rocky particles moving as a group in spaFrom brickbat + -s. The plural only sense (“small rocky particles moving as a group in space”) was coined by the Scottish physicist James Clerk Maxwell (1831–1879) and is used chiefly in reference to his writings.
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Forms
plural: brickbatses| Singular | brickbats |
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See also
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