2000 Lehr & O’Neill Black Mass 83: One informant [...] reported that starting that year ‘there was a large Money Bank at the garage on Lancaster Street where the ‘Big Boys’ go to deliver money collected as a result of illegal gaming operations.at bank, n.1
2000 Lehr & O’Neill Black Mass 188: Bulger blasted the stereo and television once Flemmi arrived.at blast, v.1
2000 Lehr & O’Neill Black Mass 322: Kevin Weeks kept up the bounce and bluster he’d displayed publicly as a supreme Bulger loyalist.at bounce, n.1
2000 Lehr & O’Neill Black Mass 178: Bulger, wrote Connolly, had formerly associated with Lepere but more recently had ‘broomed him due to his involvement in the marijuana business.’.at broom, v.
2000 Lehr & O’Neill Black Mass 67: Ciulla had actually buried them, apparently, in his grand jury testimony.at bury, v.
2000 Lehr & O’Neill Black Mass 80: Long accompanied Fraelickon a few drive-bys to view the activity for himself.at drive-by, n.
2000 Lehr & O’Neill Black Mass 9: ‘[I]f we [the FBI] were chewing on the Mafia, it was very difficult for the Mafia to be chewing on them’.at chew on (v.) under chew, v.
2000 Lehr & O’Neill Black Mass 258: Krantz played it cozy, but he was intrigued by the idea that he could stay out of jail and get some of his money back if he did a little talking.at play it cozy (v.) under cozy, adv.
2000 Lehr & O’Neill Black Mass 78: It was the dawn of what would soon become known as the high-flying 1980s, the ‘Me Decade’.at high-flying, adj.
2000 Lehr & O’Neill Black Mass 76: From the backseat Bulger would whisper in a low but unmistakably firm tone about the need to ‘get it up’ or ‘face the consequences’ .at get it up, v.
2000 Lehr & O’Neill Black Mass 47: [T]he use of ‘gypsy wires’ had required agents to bend the rules of law, or even break them.at gypsy wire (n.) under gypsy, adj.
2000 Lehr & O’Neill Black Mass 93: Their target would be the black Chevy—installing a bug in the car would be their ‘Hail Mary’ pass [...] 97: They’d thrown the Hail Mary and it had fallen woefully short.at Hail Mary, adj.
2000 Lehr & O’Neill Black Mass 83: Flemmi showered her with clothes, jewelry, even a car, and the two began to play house.at play house (v.) under house, n.1
2000 Lehr & O’Neill Black Mass 10: Zannino was the brutal and bloodless mafioso whom Angiulo relied on to bring muscle to the Boston LCN enterprise.at L.C.N., n.
2000 Lehr & O’Neill Black Mass 202: Condon made his exit less than sixty minutes after he’d arrived. [...] The party was now minus one.at minus, adj.
2000 Lehr & O’Neill Black Mass 252: Bulger was just about ungettable, that he was smart and shifty and never talked freely on the phone or dealt directly with anyone who would roll .at roll over, v.
2000 Lehr & O’Neill Black Mass 39: [T]he state police had believed that Connor was guilty of the murders but had given him a pass anyway .at give a pass (v.) under pass, n.
2000 Lehr & O’Neill Black Mass 159: The amount of rent, or tribute, Bulger charged was increasing steadily, as was the number of bookmakers and drug dealers making such payments.at rent, n.
2000 Lehr & O’Neill Black Mass 59: Morris was like the team manager jealous of the jocks [...] he’d even sought to show that he too had the right stuff.at right stuff, n.
2000 Lehr & O’Neill Black Mass 31: As a teenager, he was seen as a ‘shaper,’ a wanna-be who looked good in a baseball hat .at shape, v.
2000 Lehr & O’Neill Black Mass 81: They could tell when an associate was ‘in the shits’ with Bulger.at in the shits (with) (adj.) under shits, the, n.
2000 Lehr & O’Neill Black Mass 116: Bulger was not ‘one of us’ who would automatically stand up if caught.at stand up, v.
2000 Lehr & O’Neill Black Mass 26: Boston [...] would be one of the few cities where persistent Irish gangs would coexist by putting Mafia loan-shark money out on the streets of their neighborhood.at put in/on the street (v.) under street, the, n.
2000 Lehr & O’Neill Black Mass 25: Whitey Bulger was already tailgating merchandise off the back of delivery trucks in Boston’s minority neighborhoods.at tailgate, v.
2000 Lehr & O’Neill Black Mass 34: Green, a glib salesman with a checkered past, tried a salesman’s tap dance.at tapdance, v.