broderick

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!”

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

“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."

"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]"

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 "Brod