1978 R. Daley Prince of the City 39: Word spread quickly through the division: this guy Tange is bad news.at bad news, n.
1978 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.
1978 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
1978 R. Daley Prince of the City 107: Nunziata [...] had been investigating someone else and had dropped Corso almost by accident.at drop, v.3
1978 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.
1978 (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.
1978 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.
1978 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
1978 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
1978 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.
1978 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.
1978 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.
1978 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.
1978 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
1978 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.
1978 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
1978 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.
1978 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
1978 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