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[US] R. Daley Prince of the City 39: Word spread quickly through the division: this guy Tange is bad news.
at bad news, n.
[US] R. Daley Prince of the City 263: How can I burn Vinny Russo, who really broke me into narcotics? How can I do that to Vinny and to his wife and children?
at burn, v.
[US] R. Daley Prince of the City 42: [of police corruption] ‘I get an equal share of anything you do. [...]. If I found out that you have done anything and haven’t paid me my share,’ he said, ‘ [...] I’ll have your head’.
at do, v.1
[US] R. Daley Prince of the City 107: Nunziata [...] had been investigating someone else and had dropped Corso almost by accident.
at drop, v.3
[US] R. Daley Prince of the City 252: ‘Give me the same deal you gave Leuci, and sure I’ll cooperate. Just give me the same free ride he’s getting’.
at free ride (n.) under free, adj.
[US] (con. 1971) R. Daley Prince of the City 96: ‘He [Bonnano Family capo Alphonse Indelicato] tells me, if you think he’s a rat, then you should kill him, but if you kill him you better be sure he’s a rat, because he’s a friend of ours.’.
at friend of ours (n.) under friend, n.
[US] R. Daley Prince of the City 35: Now a third detective was demanding money too. ‘I’d tell him to fuck off,’ Coco said.
at fuck off, v.
[US] R. Daley Prince of the City 245: It was a weak case. [...] But an indictment would be a hook into Aguiluz. It might be enough to make him talk.
at hook, n.1
[US] R. Daley Prince of the City 220: ‘We got a good case going [...] We are into some major Mafia junk dealers’.
at into, prep.3
[US] R. Daley Prince of the City 231: They sailed up an exit ramp, sped along the service road, and jumped the stop sign.
at jump, v.
[US] R. Daley Prince of the City 298: The four detectives had been trying to make a case against Manuel Noa, another major narcotics mover.
at mover, n.
[US] R. Daley Prince of the City 194: ‘Louie, we ain’t got you good, we got you beautiful. All you fucking clowns talk too much. We’ve been sitting on your telephone for a month’.
at sit on, v.
[US] R. Daley Prince of the City 219: ‘An Italian kid. Thinks he’s a big-time connection. I think I can buy a thousand-dollar package off him’.
at package, n.
[US] R. Daley Prince of the City 56: [They] arrested three men: Andretta, Andretta’s shotgun rider, and Joe, whose name was Joseph Marchese.
at shotgun, n.3
[US] R. Daley Prince of the City 189: Once installed [...] the detective would become subject to and take part in shakedowns, shylock operations, truck hijacks.
at shylock, n.
[US] R. Daley Prince of the City 114: [Agent] Bario is in solid with Perrazzo.
at solid, adv.1
[US] R. Daley Prince of the City 125: ‘I could do a year standing on one hand. A year is nothing’.
at do something standing on one’s head (v.) under stand, v.2
[US] R. Daley Prince of the City 212: The informant [...] is high, stoned out. He wants to [...] say that he is feeling good.
at stoned out (adj.) under stoned, adj.
[US] R. Daley Prince of the City 172: This is a sixty-dollar dinner for two [...] It is Nunziata who picks up the check.
at pick up the tab (v.) under tab, n.3
[US] R. Daley Prince of the City 302: ‘I had a trap. That was built into my house in Kings Park to put my guns in, Counselor [...] and there was also money in there, but it was a very tiny little trap.’.
at trap, n.1
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