1 Well, bricked my phone translates as turned my phone into (a $799) brick.

But I'm trying to think of other English-language examples of verbed noun meaning turned my noun into a verb and coming up empty, though it seems a sensible enough formation.  Is there a linguist in the house?

2 OK, so you've explained a "brick phone", but what does "brick muppet" mean?

3 It's a gloved hand with a brick hidden inside.

4

But I'm trying to think of other English-language examples of verbed noun meaning turned my noun into a verb

To "pool" something works.  A "pool of money" makes sense, even if it's not a literal Scrooge-McDuck-sized pool.

You can fragment something.  Or, in a videogame, frag it.

Hydroplane (a car) and crown (in the sense of the power of the state, not the gold ring on their head) work, somewhat.

It seems like there should be tons of words like this, though, and they are really hard to come up with... it seems like there should even be a grammatical term to describe words that behave like this... second call for that linguist?

5 Probably missed the most common one, likely used at least once a week.

"Bag". 

6

Of course, "To bag it" has two entirely different meanings:

1. To place it in a bag.

2. To give up, to cease an endeavor.

7

Surely, I'm not the only person here with a lifetime subscription to Wikipedia.  

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conversion_(word_formation)

"Verbification, or verbing, is the creation of a verb from a noun, adjective or other word....  A Calvin and Hobbes strip dealt with this phenomenon, concluding with the statement that "Verbing weirds language"

 

8 Ad-hoc verb formation should be rather prevalent. I just noticed that I wrote the following in an e-mail a few days ago: "Apparently some time after Havana we switched to mkdtemp() for the *.ring.gz, which wants to be secure and forces mode 0600. Thus, regression. The fix is to chmod it back."