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broderick

broderick noun: a thorough beating.

Noun

broderick (plural brodericks)

  1. (archaic, slang) A thorough beating
    • 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!
    • 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

Verb

broderick (third-person singular simple present brodericks, present participle brodericking, simple past and past participle brodericked)

  1. (transitive) To 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
    • 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

Proper noun capitalized: Broderick

Broderick

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

Forms of broderick

Noun
pluralbrodericks
Verb
third-person singular presentbrodericks
present participlebrodericking
past participlebrodericked
pastbrodericked
Proper noun
alternative formBroadrick

Origin of broderick

After Johnny Broderick, a New York City policeman well-known for his powerful punch.

Anglicized from Welsh ap + Rhydderch.

Phrases with broderick

Questions about broderick

What does broderick mean?
Broderick means a thorough beating.
What part of speech is broderick?
Broderick can be a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
What is the plural of broderick?
The plural of broderick is brodericks.

Words near broderick in the dictionary

  1. Brodens
  2. brodeo
  3. brodeos
  4. brodequin
  5. brodequins
  6. broderick
  7. Broderick Crawford
  8. Broderick Crawfords
  9. brodericked
  10. brodericking
  11. brodericks

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