brick
v.— «Hardaway had an average Hardaway game, and *bricked* crucial shots near the end of the game.» —“Re: SONICS SONICS SONICS…woof woof woof” by The Crossjammer Usenet: rec.sport.basketball.pro May 1, 1992. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
Why do we write the sound of a dog barking as bow wow? Isn’t that noise more like woof, woof or arf, arf or ruff ruff? Surprisingly, the oldest of these is bow wow, or as William Shakespeare wrote in The Tempest (Bookshop|Amazon), bowgh wawgh...
Jim in Columbia, South Carolina, has noticed sportscasters’ use of the phrase on the season with reference to a period of time. This construction shows up in the sports pages as early as the 1880s, first referring to a team’s revenue and...