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[US] L. Shecter On the Pad 84: [W]e pick up these two broads from out of town. My buddy is up in the hotel room with the other one, and I’m stuck down in the car playing a little grab ass.
at play grab-ass (v.) under grab-ass, n.
[US] L. Shecter On the Pad 184: This guy is going like a raped ape. Zip! He’s running like a deer under the el.
at like a blue-arsed baboon (adv.) under baboon, n.
[US] L. Shecter On the Pad 66: Sullivan [...] was always the biggest ball breaker in the bar. He’d start the fights and I’d have to finish them.
at ball-breaker, n.
[US] L. Shecter On the Pad 100: Your partner, he’s going to be the bad guy, gets out and starts banging away with summons tags.
at bang, v.1
[US] L. Shecter On the Pad 151: [W]hen a lot of guys get hung in heavy, get bent out of shape, they blow the whistle on a joint.
at bent out of shape (adj.) under bent, adj.
[US] L. Shecter On the Pad 179: There’s also the old-fashioned blow job, which nobody uses anymore. You blow the whole goddamn safe. It makes a helluva bang.
at blow job, n.2
[US] L. Shecter On the Pad 168: I figured let me bounce up there and hit the guy for a few hundred bucks.
at bounce, v.1
[US] L. Shecter On the Pad 80: We’d go bouncing together and talk about how our lives would change now that we were cops.
at bounce, v.1
[US] L. Shecter On the Pad 84: George Piccolo, ‘a guy with a tremendous bugle on him,’.
at bugle, n.2
[US] L. Shecter On the Pad 136: His knuckles are all bruised from burying this guy.
at bury, v.
[US] L. Shecter On the Pad 256: He felt [...] that eventually Finelli would be paying off top brass, and all the commission had to do was play it cozy.
at play it cozy (v.) under cozy, adv.
[US] L. Shecter On the Pad 311: They were visiting the prostitutes and having a little party, el cuffo. Smith was a good tipper, but not with money.
at el-, pfx
[US] L. Shecter On the Pad 300: Gonzales was so desperate for a sex fix.
at fix, n.3
[US] L. Shecter On the Pad 94: A flute is like a Coke bottle full of whiskey. You go into a bar where they know you or know the lieutenant and you say to the bartender, I’d like to have a flute for the lieutenant. He’d go back, wash out a Coke bottle, fill it with whiskey, put a cork in it and give it to you.
at flute, n.1
[US] L. Shecter On the Pad 306: I’m sure that your Honor has lectured that a lawyer cross examining off the seat of his pants, ought to have his ticket lifted [...] 310: Bailey [...] picked jurors, some of them at least, by the seat of his pants and didn’t like hard rules.
at fly by the seat of one’s pants (v.) under fly, v.
[US] L. Shecter On the Pad 294: I start hitting the booze. It’s all I can get down. I’m getting pretty gay.
at gay, adj.
[US] L. Shecter On the Pad 90: I said to one of the guys, hey, what’s good up here, and he said, well, everybody is good. That’s because there was about sixteen bars in six blocks and two liquor stores. No problem there. Ten or twenty dollars each one.
at good, adj.1
[US] L. Shecter On the Pad 246: [A] small-time guy who [...] ran a little handbook on the telephone in a bar on Second Avenue.
at hand book (n.) under hand, n.1
[US] L. Shecter On the Pad 272: After many head-banging sessions with the tape recorder he finally admitted: ‘Yeah [...] The money was for fucking around’.
at headbanging, adj.
[US] L. Shecter On the Pad 178: Very heavy case. The PR is still in the hospital. Almost died. Very heavy.
at heavy, adj.
[US] L. Shecter On the Pad 2376: Phillips’ high-octane testimony.
at high-octane, adj.
[US] L. Shecter On the Pad 159: New York City policemen actually sold franchises to pickpockets in the subways. That’s why there was so much fury when they were taken out of ‘the hole’ and replaced by Transit Authority cops.
at hole, n.1
[US] L. Shecter On the Pad 202: If a guy comes at me to hurt me, then [...] I’ll beat him within an inch of his life. But once he’s under arrest and he’s in the house, it’s all over.
at house, n.1
[US] L. Shecter On the Pad 80: His father was really hung, head of the Pennsylvania Railroad police.
at hung, adj.
[US] L. Shecter On the Pad 306: [H]e demanded the address of witnesses Keenan seemed to be ringing in on him.
at ring in, v.1
[US] L. Shecter On the Pad 131: Most detectives, when catching calls of such minor thefts, will attempt to ‘jerk off’—pacify—the citizen and see if he can get away without making a house call.
at jerk off, v.
[US] L. Shecter On the Pad 246: There were always some guys who wouldn’t take and were liable to walk in and bust up a game if they stumbled on it or got a kite (a letter of complaint).
at kite, n.
[US] L. Shecter On the Pad 230: ‘So I knock on the door of his office, I walk in and I says, ‘Hello, Lew [for lieutenant]’.
at looie, n.
[US] L. Shecter On the Pad 224: [in context of concocted charges] ‘You can’t lock me up,’ the Hook said. His voice was somewhat strangled. ‘The hell we can’t. I can put a slip on you twenty yards long’.
at put on, v.
[US] L. Shecter On the Pad 200: [T]he complete psychological interrogation doesn’t work all the time and a few raps in the mouth really turn some people on. It works.
at turn on, v.
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