Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(Und./police) to break and enter.

1971		D. Goines Dopefiend (1991) 161: We goin’ B-E a joint this morning?
1990		S. Morgan Homeboy 146: The packing plant he once B&E’d.
2002		J. Ellroy ‘Where I Get My Weird Shit’ in Destination: Morgue! (2004) 35: A one-armed bum B&Es the doc’s pad and snuffs her.
2016		D. Whish-Wilson Old Scores [ebook] He’d B&E’d all of the shops down the terrace row when he was a kid.
2023		(con. 1962) J. Ellroy Enchanters 34: Peep me, B and E me, wire me for sound.