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Buddy Boys 192: ‘I got some information,’ Gallagher said. ‘All right,’ Henry replied. ‘Tell me.’ ‘Not on the ring-a-ding’.at ring-a-ding, n.
Buddy Boys 192: ‘I got some information,’ Gallagher said. ‘All right,’ Henry replied. ‘Tell me.’ ‘Not on the ring-a-ding’. Buddy Boys 183: Some Buddy Boys also carried ash cans—small but powerful fireworks—which they would light and slip through mail slots, literally bombing people out of their apartments.at ashcan, n.
Buddy Boys 78: The so-called Blue Wall of Silence was cracked, he insisted. Cops were turning in other cops [...] 134: He would not crack the Blue Wall of Silence. Rats did that.at blue wall (of silence) (n.) under blue, adj.1
Buddy Boys 111: [T]he 77th Precinct cops were untouchable. [...] Their moles in the Internal Affairs Division and police union kept them well insulated. ‘Hell, guys,’ they told each other, ‘We’re practically bullet proof’.at bullet-proof (adj.) under bullet, n.2
Buddy Boys 193: ‘Tony and I chilled out after that [warning]. I went away hunting [...]. We stopped taking money from Benny’.at chill (out), v.
Buddy Boys 79: He reported that there was a man with a gun inside a Brooklyn building. This practice—called ‘dropping your own dime’—enabled the Anticrime officers to report on a bogus gun run when they really entered the apartment to search it for narcotics and money.at drop a dime (v.) under dime, n.
Buddy Boys 181: [I]f the shoofly—some supervisor trying to check up on us—came into the park looking for us, we could see him coming.at shoo-fly, n.
Buddy Boys 55: All recruits [...] were given three yellow ‘gig cards.’ They were to be carried at all times [...] If a recruit with dull shoes or a stained uniform was spotted by a supervisor, he had to surrender a gig card. If he lost all three cards, he got a reprimand.at gig, n.9
Buddy Boys 225: A lot of the guys who are in Internal Affairs are God-squad types—born-again Christians.at God squad (n.) under God, n.1
Buddy Boys 88: I don’t know if they gave him money the second time or just took him for a ride. He was gonzo alonzo [gone] after that.at gonzo, adj.2
Buddy Boys : I vouchered one hundred and eighty dollars. One-eight-oh.’[...] ‘We did nine-six-oh. Apiece.’ Henry was stunned. [...] ‘And did you throw Sammy or Billy anything?’ he asked. ‘We couldn’t’.’ ‘Oh yeah, because you don’t know how good they are’ .at good, adj.1
Buddy Boys 52: Sifting through their neighbors’ garbage for something they called ‘mongo,’ the garbage collectors came up with copper, other metals, and wood, which they later sold.at mongo, n.
Buddy Boys 34: One of them mentioned that they had been sitting on Magno’s house all day, waiting for him to come out.at sit on, v.
Buddy Boys 113: ‘At first when someone pegs a shot at you, you don’t even think. It’s amazing, but you don’t. You just react’.at peg, v.1
Buddy Boys 100: Massar pounded down several cans of beer.at pound, v.2
Buddy Boys 165: Meanwhile we were driving around a shitbox car that was falling apart.at shit-box (n.) under shit, n.
Buddy Boys 152: [E]ating in the middle of this skelly apartment with roaches crawling around on the table.at skelly, adj.
Buddy Boys 176: I don’t have a night stick on me. I never liked carrying a stick.at stick, n.
Buddy Boys 31: [W]ondering why he had ever agreed to spend the first day of his three-day swing hanging foil wallpaper.at swing, n.1
Buddy Boys 220: Henry and Rathbun had just located [...] ‘Give me a nice tray,’ said a man pushing five dollars through the door’s gutted out peephole.at tray, n.1
Buddy Boys 28: ‘They turned a mutt drug dealer to get us. They got me and Benny talking and they got Benny giving me money’.at turn, v.1
Buddy Boys 237: ‘They caught you red-handed. And because of that, now you’re turning around’.at turn around (v.) under turn, v.1
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