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Bangs: A Policeman's Guide to Corruption choose

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[US] D.B. Flowers Bangs 303: ‘If Doherty shot you, I’d have gone to his house and broke his jaw, bare-ass minimum!’.
at bare-ass, adj.
[US] D.B. Flowers Bangs 73: Fix a ticket, receive a bottle of your favorite hooch for your trouble. Bag an arrest, receive a case.
at bag, v.
[US] D.B. Flowers Bangs 36: ‘[Y]ou jumped in front of me, half in the wrapper. I hit you so hard, they picked you up in China for speeding!’.
at in the bag under bag, n.1
[US] D.B. Flowers Bangs 318: Bangs was bent about losing the car and the cocaine—which he said was some of the best shit he’d ever had.
at bent, adj.
[US] D.B. Flowers Bangs 358: [H]e didn’t know whether Bangs was just talking big or was actually unhinged .
at talk big (v.) under big, adv.
[US] D.B. Flowers Bangs 162: Bangs also instructed Clemente [...] to blast the radio to make it appear as if he were home.
at blast, v.1
[US] D.B. Flowers Bangs 246: ‘[Barrett] was no choir boy, but he was never violent’.
at choirboy, n.
[US] D.B. Flowers Bangs 85: Bangs dared one of the motorcycle cops [...] to ride naked along the Day Boulevard parade route [...] The cop cowboyed up: ‘I’ll do it, but not completely naked—I never ride without my helmet and boots’.
at cowboy up (v.) under cowboy, n.
[US] D.B. Flowers Bangs 203: He sized himself up in the mirror—Buffalo Bill on crack, he thought—and swaggered out of the store an into the laughter of his traveling companions.
at on crack (adj.) under crack, n.7
[US] D.B. Flowers Bangs 245: [He] instructed him to get two handguns and meet him at Blinstrum’s Restaurant, where he and Frankie Jr. had planned to sit down.
at sit down, v.
[US] D.B. Flowers Bangs 64: Clemente’s rank as lieutenant had just enough drag to keep Joey out of the shit and in good standing with the upper echelon.
at drag, n.1
[US] D.B. Flowers Bangs 242: Bulger drilled Murray and threatened [...] ‘if you don’t pay me now, I’ll kill you’.
at drill, v.1
[US] D.B. Flowers Bangs 37: [H]eand Brother O’Leary still enjoyed pulling gaffs together, both for pleasure and profit. Brother had his own favorite gaff, a con he had perfected over the course of several years.
at gaff, n.3
[US] D.B. Flowers Bangs 50: McDonald was a gung-ho working cop, a genuine ‘headhunter,’ as Bangs and others referred to them, meaning a cop who loved to bust people.
at head hunter, n.
[US] D.B. Flowers Bangs 19: Cops like Flowers weren’t just shit-bum headhunters out to make a collar or cause people trouble simply because they could.
at head hunter, n.
[US] D.B. Flowers Bangs 258: Debbie laughed, and Joey knew he was in.
at in, adv.
[US] D.B. Flowers Bangs 162: Bangs and Barrett became emboldened enough to retrieve bits of the loot to sell for a little extra jingle in their pocket.
at jingle, n.
[US] D.B. Flowers Bangs 403: Joey and Brother snatched a few select diamonds for their own kick.
at kickback, n.1
[US] D.B. Flowers Bangs 101: Most cops would go soft on someone who was in a situation they could relate to [...] but this kind of piss and vinegar stuck in Bangs’ craw.
at piss and vinegar (n.) under piss, n.
[US] D.B. Flowers Bangs 271: Not surprisingly, Brother had pissed through most of his Depositors Trust earnings.
at piss through (v.) under piss, v.
[US] D.B. Flowers Bangs 366: Doherty played the question off—Bangs had made idle threats many times.
at play off (v.) under play, v.
[US] D.B. Flowers Bangs 23: Fishhooks in his pockets, squeezing a buffalo nickel ‘til it shit [...] everyone knew that Jerry worshipped money.
at have fish-hooks in one’s pockets (v.) under pocket, n.
[US] D.B. Flowers Bangs 269: Tommy tossed the keys to Roberts and nodded for him to open the trunk. Al promptly popped the trunk.
at pop, v.1
[US] D.B. Flowers Bangs 167: Jerry and Tommy denied having anything to do with the robbery and told the Mafia associate to go pound sand up his ass.
at pound sand (up one’s ass) (v.) under pound, v.2
[US] D.B. Flowers Bangs 268: [He] absconded, leaving Doherty and Roberts alone in a cheesy motel with no cash and no product, pricks in hand, as the saying goes.
at with one’s prick in one’s hand under prick, n.
[US] D.B. Flowers Bangs 257: [He] arrived to find another of Doherty’s free-for-all, frenzied parties in full swing, about fifteen people half-naked and puffed out of their minds.
at puffed (adj.) under puff, v.
[US] D.B. Flowers Bangs 49: [Patrolman] McDonald rolled up on them to see why they were at the store after hours.
at roll up on (v.) under roll, v.
[US] D.B. Flowers Bangs 222: [S]ome scam or another concocted, financed and executed by somebody with the sack to actually do the work.
at sack, n.
[US] D.B. Flowers Bangs 281: [H]e knew the Medford cops would attempt to sandbag the case.
at sandbag, v.1
[US] D.B. Flowers Bangs 215: Bangs started to rant about receiving at least eighty percent of each kilo in rock form, with the rest in shake, which he knew was most likely mixed with cut.
at shake, n.1
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