Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Quotation search

Date

 to 

Country

Author

Source Title

Source from Bibliography

Tinged Valor choose

Quotation Text

[US] J. Buskey Tinged Valor 48: I waited for police backup, blue lighted the vehicle, and took all occupants into custody.
at blue light, n.2
[US] J. Buskey Tinged Valor 69: [H]alf-brain police officers who will always have policing limited to a job rather than a profession.
at half-brain (adj.) under brain, n.1
[US] J. Buskey Tinged Valor 31: Green must have had a brain cramp because he locked himself in the back seat of his own cruiser with one of the ‘new girls’ on the strip.
at brain cramp (n.) under brain, n.1
[US] J. Buskey Tinged Valor 40: This was totally offensive to a veteran officer, ranking right up there with being referred to as a ‘flashlight cop’ (security guard).
at flashlight cop (n.) under cop, n.1
[US] J. Buskey Tinged Valor 24: [O]fficers were ‘runnin’ whores, dope traps, and liquor houses.
at dope trap (n.) under dope, n.1
[US] J. Buskey Tinged Valor 23: These two seasoned police officers went on about Sergeant Willows’drug habits [...] They referred toSergeant Willows as a true ‘GeekMonster’ (police pet name for anyone pining away in their addiction to crack cocaine).
at geek monster (n.) under geek, n.3
[US] J. Buskey Tinged Valor 81: I now know that Moe was naked on this one [i.e. corrupt dealings with a madam].
at naked, adj.
[US] J. Buskey Tinged Valor 81: [S]since he had literally bitten my head off just minutes earlier, I [...] allowed him to rock on.
at rock on (v.) under rock, v.3
[US] J. Buskey Tinged Valor 24: [O]fficers were ‘runnin’ whores, dope traps, and liquor houses.
at run, v.
[US] J. Buskey Tinged Valor 102: As I placed handcuffs on the suspect [...] I thought how much of a double bonus we had just scooped.
at scoop, v.
[US] J. Buskey Tinged Valor 31: Officer Horan assumed the duty of coming in every night and getting things started [...] Officer Horan was the straw that stirred the drink in Southzone.
at straw that stirs the drink under straw, n.
[US] J. Buskey Tinged Valor 39: [E]very officer wanted to get paid so they could not afford to let as much as a thin dime slip by.
at thin dime (n.) under thin, adj.2
[US] J. Buskey Tinged Valor 32: Friday nights were the times that the perps (or Dope Boys, as we called them) made the majority of their sales and their traps (selling locations) were most busy.
at trap, n.1
[US] J. Buskey Tinged Valor 26: ‘Officer Gabriel, we’re on to your little game out here and we don’t like it at all. [...]. Don’t force us to give you the treatment!’.
at give someone the treatment (v.) under treatment, n.
no more results