1987 (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.
1987 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.
1987 (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
1987 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
1987 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.
1987 (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
1987 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.
1987 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.
1987 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.
1987 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.
1987 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.
1987 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