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[US] D. Winslow Border [ebook] Mullen won’t be able to hear a thing. He must be shitting bricks.
at shit a brick, v.
[US] D. Winslow Border [ebook] [O]one of the AB shot callers gave him a respectful nod.
at A.B., n.
[US] D. Winslow Border [ebook] ‘Fucking cops—nickel-and-dimers’.
at nickel-and-dimer, n.
[US] D. Winslow Border [ebook] ‘If he was wired up, the black-and-whites would already be rolling in to save they boy’s life. He clean’.
at black and white, n.1
[US] D. Winslow Border [ebook] Darnell has everyone within five square blocks on the arm. His slingers on the corner look out for her, his boys walk or drive her wherever she wants to go, some uniform cops [...] looking in.
at on the arm (adv.) under arm, n.
[US] D. Winslow Border [ebook] Maybe, she thinks [...] heroin is God. We sure as shit worship it.
at sure as shit under sure as..., phr.
[US] D. Winslow Border [ebook] ‘Just be your normal asshole self’.
at asshole, adj.
[US] D. Winslow Border [ebook] If you were a ‘baby,’ a bitch, if you wouldn’t or couldn’t fight, Zuniga or the others would rent you out.
at baby, n.
[US] D. Winslow Border [ebook] The guy did fine in the bag job back in New York, but undercover is a different gig.
at bag job (n.) under bag, n.1
[US] D. Winslow Border [ebook] He stuck with the older, slower Jackson, which was a balls-to-the-wall, hard-core loyal thing to do.
at balls to the wall(s) under balls, n.
[US] D. Winslow Border [ebook] ‘How’s Gina?’ ‘Well, she hasn’t stopped bustin’ balls, that’s what you’re asking,’ Angie says.
at break someone’s balls (v.) under balls, n.
[US] D. Winslow Border [ebook] Hidalgo makes his play straight off. It’s ballsy.
at ballsy (adj.) under balls, n.
[US] D. Winslow Border [ebook] No ‘baseball’ — homo shit.
at baseball, n.
[US] D. Winslow Border [ebook] And if a bunch of white trash, beaners and niggers killed one another, it was no loss, was it?
at beaner, n.3
[US] D. Winslow Border [ebook] ‘But first you got to get beat in [...] Don’t look so scared, hermanito, we whale on you for eighteen seconds’.
at beat in (v.) under beat, v.
[US] D. Winslow Border [ebook] [I]t’s all around the facility that Santi and Nico are beefing. They play it up—stink eyes at each other in the hallway.
at beef, v.1
[US] D. Winslow Border [ebook] [T]he mesa’s cell—a ‘birdbath,’ an end-of-the-row cell on the ground floor.
at birdbath (n.) under bird, n.1
[US] D. Winslow Border [ebook] [T]hey went up there to blaze up and drink.
at blaze, v.2
[US] D. Winslow Border [ebook] ‘That shit gets attention, young blood, and attention is bad for business’.
at blood, n.2
[US] D. Winslow Border [ebook] [A] boy named Travis who Eddie was pretty sure she was blowing.
at blow, v.2
[US] D. Winslow Border [ebook] Jacqui’s giving a front seat blow job. Because she won’t give a back seat blowie.
at blow job, n.1
[US] D. Winslow Border [ebook] He’s already getting blowback about Cirello. [...] [H]is lieutenant came in to talk to him, shut the door behind him. ‘Organized Crime is hearing shit about one of our guys’.
at blowback, n.
[US] D. Winslow Border [ebook] ‘Whose car are you in?’ ‘I’m doing my bones with Eme now’.
at do one’s bones (v.) under bone, n.1
[US] D. Winslow Border [ebook] ‘I just want to get you home and jump your bones right now’.
at jump (on) someone’s bones (v.) under bones, n.1
[US] D. Winslow Border [ebook] Nico might have been the best cell-phone booster Calle 18 ever had [...] The marks didn’t see him coming and they couldn’t catch him going.
at booster, n.2
[US] D. Winslow Border [ebook] DuPont is a new boot [...] a do-rag cotton picker who probably fucks his own sister in the ass as a form of birth control.
at boot, n.2
[US] D. Winslow Border [ebook] [H]e’s on call, having to bop out whenever Darnell needs him.
at bop, v.
[US] D. Winslow Border [ebook] ‘Maybe on the bricks I want to be clean’.
at on the bricks under bricks, n.
[US] D. Winslow Border [ebook] Eighty, ninety, a hundred, they slide into a banked turn and Cirello feels like he’s going to puke. Next lap Eddie kicks it up to a buck twenty.
at buck, n.3
[US] D. Winslow Border [ebook] [B]oth went on missions against the Zetas and the Tapia organization. They won’t bug out.
at bug out, v.1
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