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brick: n. 1. A piece of equipment that has been programmed or configured into a
hung, wedged,unusable
state. Especially used to describe what happens to devices like routers or
PDAs that run from firmware when the firmware image is damaged or its
settings are somehow patched to impossible values. This term usually
implies irreversibility, but equipment can sometimes be unbricked by
performing a hard reset or some other drastic operation. Sometimes verbed:
“Yeah, I bricked the router because I forgot about adding in the new
access-list.”. 2. An outboard power transformer of the kind associated with laptops,
modems, routers and other small computing appliances, especially one of the
modern type with cords on both ends, as opposed to the older and obnoxious
type that plug directly into wall or barrier strip.
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