linux - Way to kill frozen application

I have an application that freezes. I can't terminate it with ^C, so I have to do following:

$ ./myapp 
^C^Z

[1]+  Stopped                 ./myapp
$ pgrep -lf myapp
18479 bash ./myapp
$ kill -9 18479
$ fg
bash: fg: job has terminated
[1]+  Killed                  ./myapp
$

It is OK to do it in rare cases. But if I'm an author of this application and try to drill-down problem that causes freeze, it is very annoying to do this over and over again. Is there a way to save few keystrokes in such scenario?

Update:

pgrep + kill could be replaced with pkill -f -9 myapp, thanks to Lee B

Ideally I want to shorten path to just one keystroke, like ^C. It doesn't matter on what level it is implemented: on gnome terminal, on bash, wherever.

Answer

If Ctrl-C doesn't work, you should be able to use Ctrl-\, which will send a KILL signal, rather than the TERM signal that ctrl-c sends.