brick·bat /ˈbrɪkbæt/ n. | vt. I n. 1. (尤指用作武器投掷的)碎砖，砖块；似石块的投掷物 receive injuries from brickbats 被投掷的碎砖砸伤 2. 侮辱；谴责，尖锐的批评；口头攻击 take the brickbats 受到谴责 The critic threw brickbats at that novelist. 评论家对那位小说家提出尖锐的批评。 a lot of parliamentary brickbats 议会中的大量攻击 II (-bat·ted; -bat·ting) vt. 1. 向…掷碎砖 The demonstrators were brickbatted. 游行示威者被投掷碎砖。 2. 侮辱；激烈地批评；攻击