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[US] M. McAlary Good Cop Bad Cop 20: Dowd’s girlfriend had problems from the start. [...] She too was interested in working as a cop, but bagged the idea.
at bag, v.
[US] M. McAlary Good Cop Bad Cop 4: No average Joe is gonna have the balls or reckless stupidity to blow the traffic light outside a police precinct in New York City.
at blow, v.1
[US] M. McAlary Good Cop Bad Cop : [T]hese dopes from IAD [Internal Affairs Division] burned the place. The IAD cops were looking to arrest Chickie, the bartender. If they were smart, IAD would have arrested Chickie at home, but they rushed in and arrested him in front of the whole place. [...] The location was burned. [...] Bailey’s was ruined as a place for dirty cops and watchers.
at burn, v.
[US] M. McAlary Good Cop Bad Cop 34: They screamed at him, jokingly: Who do you think you fucking are, kid? [...] They gave him the business.
at business, n.
[US] M. McAlary Good Cop Bad Cop 172: [W]hen they did finally give Dowd a urine test, he switched the vials, giving investigators ‘clean’ piss.
at clean, adj.
[US] M. McAlary Good Cop Bad Cop 34: He never faked injuries or beat up prisoners who looked at him cross-eyed.
at look at someone cross-eyed (v.) under cross-eyed, adv.
[US] M. McAlary Good Cop Bad Cop 26: Yet no one ever asked Michael Dowd how a young cop could be doing so well on his dirt salary.
at dirt, adj.
[US] M. McAlary Good Cop Bad Cop 95: He is doing Eight Balls, parachutes, cocaine, and heroin.
at eightball, n.
[US] M. McAlary Good Cop Bad Cop 87: The shooflies, as internal investigators were nicknamed by rank-and-file patrolman [sic], were easily spotted by Dowd and Eurell.
at shoo-fly, n.
[US] M. McAlary Good Cop Bad Cop 66: Chelo was living the ‘gangsta life’ years before the invention of rap music.
at gangsta, adj.
[US] M. McAlary Good Cop Bad Cop 43: Another [policeman] began to yell, ‘Shoot him. Shoot him.’ Joe, standing to the right, was also ready to let one go.
at let go, v.
[US] M. McAlary Good Cop Bad Cop 51: Why would a street cop—a real street cop with laurels up the kisser—choose to work for those bookworms and pretenders?
at up the kisser (adv.) under kisser, n.
[US] M. McAlary Good Cop Bad Cop 115: I am sitting on all of their houses, all of the time, watching.
at sit on, v.
[US] M. McAlary Good Cop Bad Cop 56: The commissioner’s order went down the ladder: The PC doesn’t want to hear about corruption cases.
at p.c., n.
[US] M. McAlary Good Cop Bad Cop 95: He is doing Eight Balls, parachutes, cocaine, and heroin.
at parachute, n.
[US] M. McAlary Good Cop Bad Cop 141: She [a police officer] suffered some sort of neurological injury. For a while they put her in the rubber gun squad.
at rubber gun (brigade / cop / squad) (n.) under rubber, adj.
[US] M. McAlary Good Cop Bad Cop 59: [They] pass their memo books through the window for the boss to scratch.
at scratch, v.
[US] M. McAlary Good Cop Bad Cop 127: The Queens sergeant chose to believe that someone had stolen the police union card from Dowd. [...] The cop was given a slid.
at slide, n.
[US] M. McAlary Good Cop Bad Cop 80: Even cops in the city’s most rough-and-tumble precinct—the 75th—think Michael Dowd is too slimy to be a cop.
at slimy, adj.
[US] M. McAlary Good Cop Bad Cop 36: After NYPD blue the guard uniform looked like a clown’s outfit. [...] ‘Do yourself a favor,’ said the square badge commanding the crew [etc].
at square badge (n.) under square, adj.
[US] M. McAlary Good Cop Bad Cop 50: Cops all felt that the people who worked in Internal Affairs were losers. They were turnarounds, people who would sell out their mothers to get ahead.
at turnaround, n.
[US] M. McAlary Good Cop Bad Cop 183: [He] wasn’t shy [...] about stepping on the toes of feet that had backed away from arresting Michael Dowd and Kenny Eurell years ago. Still, he invited IAD into the case. He wasn’t going to tweak them.
at tweak, v.2
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