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[US] (con. 1980) G.W. Clemente Cops are Robbers 48: ‘If a half-stick [of dynamite] doesn’t do it [...] then we’ll bag the whole thing’.
at bag, v.
[US] G.W. Clemente Cops are Robbers 127: I had a lot of problems [...] with what police call bounty hunters, the cops that make every arrest they can [...] so that the resulting court appearances make them a substantial amount in overtime.
at bounty-hunter, n.
[US] (con. 1981) G.W. Clemente Cops are Robbers 148: ‘ I had to float some dough to my pals down in Florida for helping me with my alibi’.
at float, v.2
[US] G.W. Clemente Cops are Robbers 75: ‘Three guys came up to my club [...] and took me for a ride. They put a fucking hood over my head [...] I thought I was finished, gonzo’.
at gonzo, adj.2
[US] G.W. Clemente Cops are Robbers 153: The others could do nothing; after all, I was their in. [...] With my knowledge of the time lock and access to the building, I could have done the job myself.
at in, n.
[US] (con. 1979) G.W. Clemente Cops are Robbers 26: There’s this TV supply store in Medford [...] I figured it’d be an easy place to pop.
at pop, v.1
[US] G.W. Clemente Cops are Robbers 50: The safes were, as Bucky put it, popcorn. [...] Bucky and Kenny opened them like sardine cans .
at popcorn, adj.
[US] G.W. Clemente Cops are Robbers 75: ‘Three guys came up to my club—from a big South Boston gang, I believe—and took me for a ride [...] I thought I was finished, gonzo’.
at take for a ride (v.) under ride, n.
[US] G.W. Clemente Cops are Robbers 120: [H]e knew as well as I that the force wanted to give me the shaft.
at shaft, n.
[US] G.W. Clemente Cops are Robbers 139: Bucky’s rap was a tapdance, a softshoe he would shuffle quite a few times during that coming year, but for a while it was convincing.
at tapdance, v.
[US] G.W. Clemente Cops are Robbers 127: [of Boston, MA] If she were not bailed she would have to be brought, with the infant, to the ‘tombs,’ the city jail cells downtown.
at Tombs, the, n.
[US] G.W. Clemente Cops are Robbers 171: [H]e started seeing a woman named Debbie O’Malley [...] Joe tumbled for her in a big way.
at tumble, v.2
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