- The term is specifically used in more technologically inclined persons. Someone who knows how to jailbreak a phone will know when an iphone has become an ibrick. It is very tough to jailbreak a phone these days with the new iphone 4S, so this term was coined early on for the first few iphones.
Ibrick
noun Compounding
A term used to describe a useless Iphone due to failed jailbreaking to another service provider by someone who had no idea what they were doing.
Etymology : The compounding of I before a noun is a term steve jobs trademarked for his apple products. I is a native pronoun and brick is from old French. Compounding the two words gives this neologism.
Source : “Yo that is not an iphone, that is an Ibrick.” –my roommate December 4, 2011
Last modified: 5 December 2011