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[US] 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
[US] Lehr & O’Neill Black Mass 188: Bulger blasted the stereo and television once Flemmi arrived.
at blast, v.1
[US] 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
[US] 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.
[US] Lehr & O’Neill Black Mass 67: Ciulla had actually buried them, apparently, in his grand jury testimony.
at bury, v.
[US] Lehr & O’Neill Black Mass 80: Long accompanied Fraelickon a few drive-bys to view the activity for himself.
at drive-by, n.
[US] 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.
[US] 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.
[US] 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.
[US] Lehr & O’Neill Black Mass 168: Stephen Rakes folded soon after the warning.
at fold, v.
[US] 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.
[US] 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.
[US] 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.
[US] 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
[US] 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.
[US] 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.
[US] 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.
[US] 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.
[US] 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.
[US] 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.
[US] 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.
[US] 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.
[US] Lehr & O’Neill Black Mass 116: Bulger was not ‘one of us’ who would automatically stand up if caught.
at stand up, v.
[US] 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.
[US] 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.
[US] Lehr & O’Neill Black Mass 34: Green, a glib salesman with a checkered past, tried a salesman’s tap dance.
at tapdance, v.
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