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Busted 88: We were the underdogs. The B team. The long shot. We weren’t expected to win.at B-team, n.
Busted 88: We were the underdogs. The B team. The long shot. We weren’t expected to win. Busted 124: ‘Wow, Barbara has a new BFF’.at B.F.F., n.
Busted 113: Next came Bochetto’s turn on the podium. [...]. The supremely confident Bocchetto was spooling out a barnburner.at barnburner, n.
Busted 86: [female speaker] I’m your bitch,’ I once told a reserved editor [...] He didn’t know how to take my comment, which was just my quirky and profane way of telling him, ‘Look, I’ll do whatever you need’.at bitch, n.1
Busted 12: She [i.e. a newspaper editor] couldn’t understand how some reporters were satisfied with canned interviews that everyone else had.at canned, adj.
Busted 46: Above the corner boys were the holders, or guys who stashed the dope.at corner boy (n.) under corner, n.2
Busted 51: Jorge’s urine came back dirty because he was getting high on weed.at dirty, adj.
Busted 143: They were willing to eat the loss, chalking up the cop robberies as a Philly street tax.at eat, v.
Busted 50: ‘We got in the game,’ Dolores told Barbara unapologetically. ‘You get in the game to survive’.at game, n.
Busted 70: Maybe we were off our gourd, but [...] we weren’t the only ones who thought that the search warrants smelled.at out of one’s gourd (adj.) under gourd, n.
Busted 175: We [ii.e. a tabloid] were like a cheap date; we were low-maintenance—content to grab a Bud Light at a dive bar.at high maintenance (adj.) under high, adj.1
Busted 46: Above the corner boys were the holders, or guys who stashed the dope.at holder, n.
(con. 1990) Busted 61: In 1990, around the time that Benny was hustling $10 bags of coke on the corner, the cops nabbed Hector.at hustle, v.
Busted 84: By now, the age-old Daily News—Inquirer rivalry was in full tilt. [...] The Inky reporters weren’t going to follow us, they were going to beat us.at Inky, n.
Busted 155: Everything at the Daily News was janky. The computers were bulky and sounded like jet planes taking off whenever we turned them on.at janky, adj.
Busted 25: Sonia wasn’t afraid to feel or fight. Not girlie fighting [...] but full-throttle punches. She went straight for the face. She could lock it up.at lock up, v.
Busted 201: Barbara had a knack for cracking tough nuts. She could have broken Al Capone.at tough nut, n.
Busted 76: When she showed me her profile, I blurted, ‘Oh, Barbara, that’s soooo schmaltzy. You gotta change that’.at schmaltzy, adj.
Busted 63: I struggled to parrallel-park my shrimpy car.at shrimpy, adj.
Busted 157: [B]lack Adidas slider sandals with white ankle socks.at sliders, n.
Busted 143: They were willing to eat the loss, chalking up the cop robberies as a Philly street tax.at street tax (n.) under street, adj.
Busted 133: ‘[A] lot of cops think Jeff has sugar in his tank,’ he said. ‘What? Sugar in his tank? What does that mean?’ I asked, laughing. ‘Gay,’ he said.at have sugar in one’s tank (v.) under sugar, n.4
Busted 196: Barbara’s dad and my mom. Now, they were scary; they were uncorked and unfiltered.at uncorked, adj.
Busted 197: I suspected that he wanted to get snipped just so he could veg on the couch for a weekend.at veg, v.
Busted 156: [W]e humans are really nothing more than souped-up monkeys who vroom down highways at eighty miles per hour.at vroom, v.
Busted 17: [T]he ‘white shirts,’ sergeants and captains who had earned enough stripes to hang up their uniform blues.at white shirt (n.) under white, adj.
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