Broderick
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Broderick is a noun meaning (transitive) To administer a beating to.
Meaning
(transitive) To administer a beating to.
More Meanings
- (slang, early 20th century) A thorough beating
Example Sentences
Turned out some judge took a throwback after some bruno gave him the broderick.
"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]"
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!”
“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."
Word Forms
- brodericks
- brodericking
- brodericked
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include brode.
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