broderick

plural brodericks

1. archaicslangA thorough beating

   Turned out some judge took a throwback after some bruno gave him the broderick.

   2016, Paul Fauteux, Hard-boiled detective sketch, in response to a Winter Break writing prompt

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   Ernest Woodruff pounded his fist onto his redwood desk. “Find him; give him the Broderick and then bring his battered body to me so I can lay eyes on that hatchet man’s mug before I bash it in!”

   2012, Balogun, The Scythe – A Two-Fisted Dieselfunk Tale!

   “I think I should tell you that Maxie here is a regular Bruno and a great pugilist,” he commented, “with all of the punches he knows he could give you a Broderick by thumping you to the canvas."

   2017, Alan G. Wasenius, Maxie Thermopolis or Don’T Drink the Giggle Water

present singular third person brodericks · participle present brodericking · participle past brodericked · past brodericked

1. transitiveTo administer a beating to

   "I brodericked him when he was alive," Johnny would say, "but it is against my religion to do anything like that to the dead. [spit in corpse's eye]"

   1980, William Heffernan, Broderick, page 298

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   Any racketeer or Mafia chief who chose to behave quietly in public did not have to fear Broderick, although the hired hands who performed the necessary acts of violence did run the risk of being "Brodericked."

   1971, Gerald Astor, The New York cops: an informal history, page 150

alternative Broadrick

1. A surname from Welsh.
2. A male given name transferred from the surname.