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[US] Barer et al. Betrayal in Blue 123: Ken thought Baron was on the arm—police slang for a business owner who doled out favors to the neighborhood cops.
at on the arm (adv.) under arm, n.
[US] Barer et al. Betrayal in Blue 138: The owner was a housing cop who welcomed officers [...] More than once the crew and their badge bunnies hooked up for orgies on the pool table.
at badge bunny (n.) under badge, n.1
[US] Barer et al. Betrayal in Blue 160: I could feel the air getting tense. Dowd was high and obnoxious, and Tommy was flexing his beer muscles.
at beer muscle (n.) under beer, n.
[US] Barer et al. Betrayal in Blue 143: A ‘Big Eight’ is 125 grams.
at big eight (n.) under big, adj.
[US] Barer et al. Betrayal in Blue 176: When drug money wasn’t readily available on the streets, cops employed schemes, called ‘Collars-for-Dollars,’ that ratcheted up their overtime hours.
at collars for dollars (n.) under collar, n.
[US] Barer et al. Betrayal in Blue 168: [G]ive me a fucking break, this wasn’t mid-town Manhattan, it [i.e. ultra-violent East New York] was the Land of Fuck.
at fuck, n.
[US] Barer et al. Betrayal in Blue 138: We go next door, and two young teen boys, brothers, Irish twins, like nine months apart.
at Irish twins (n.) under Irish, adj.
[US] Barer et al. Betrayal in Blue 139: [W]e sat on the block until the White Rabbit came home and we got his address.
at sit on, v.
[US] Barer et al. Betrayal in Blue 135: NYPD’s massive size made for a large org chart too.
at org, n.
[US] Barer et al. Betrayal in Blue 181: The drama of the arrests [i.e. of other corrupt police officers] scared the snot out of Ken.
at scare the snot out of (v.) under snot, n.1
[US] Barer et al. Betrayal in Blue 73: In those days cops didn’t think twice about ‘tuning up’ a piece-of-shit perp that well deserved it. Street justice was the rule, not the exception.
at street justice under street, adj.
[US] Barer et al. Betrayal in Blue 154: Gordo cut up the heroin, packaged it, and put it on the street.
at put in/on the street (v.) under street, the, n.
[US] Barer et al. Betrayal in Blue 73: In those days cops didn’t think twice about ‘tuning up’ a piece-of-shit perp that well deserved it.
at tune, v.
[US] Barer et al. Betrayal in Blue 143: [W]hat we had tested 94 percent pure cocaine. At that purity rate I was able to ‘step on it,’ ‘cut it,’ or ‘whack it’ quite a bit.
at whack, v.1
[US] Barer et al. Betrayal in Blue 142: Elvis [...] gave him an ounce while we were out on patrol. Mike called it a ‘Z’—short for ounce.
at z, n.2
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