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brickbat
brick·bat [ brík bàt ] (plural brick·bats)


noun 
Definition:
 
1. criticism: a harshly unfavorable criticism
2. piece of something hard: a broken fragment of something hard that is used as a missile
[Mid-16th century. <bat1 "piece, lump"]
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