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[US] (con. 2016) in J. Fenton We Own This City 137: Yeah, but the issue is I gotta get some [Xanax] bars first,’ the informant said.
at bar, n.1
[US] (con. 2015) in J. Fenton We Own This City 71: ‘Instead of one cover-up behind that blue wall after another cover-up behind that blue wall . . . and one lie after another lie, now we see the truth’.
at blue wall (of silence) (n.) under blue, adj.1
[US] (con. 2011) in J. Fenton We Own This City 100: Jaime texted a man named Kenneth Diggins [...] ‘Got any boy?’ she wrote, using slang for heroin. ‘Let me get some boy off you.’.
at boy, n.2
[US] J. Fenton We Own This City 16: [A] dressing down from a federal judge [...] was supposed to carry weight. In some places, it could derail an officer’s career. But in Baltimore it was more often a speed bump.
at speed bump (n.) under bump, n.1
[US] J. Fenton We Own This City 159: ‘I got up his butt for you tonight’.
at up someone’s butt under butt, n.1
[US] (con. 2016) in J. Fenton We Own This City 181: ‘You need to chill out,’ Gondo said.
at chill (out), v.
[US] J. Fenton We Own This City 104: [T]he time was right to push forward with charges against a [heroin] dealer named Aaron Anderson and see if he might flip on the Shropshire crew.
at crew, n.
[US] J. Fenton We Own This City 230: ‘He wasn’t ‘doing’ anybody outside of the dude who was already in jail, who everybody else was doing,’ Eldridge said.
at do, v.1
[US] J. Fenton We Own This City 190: Jenkins [...] worried about the kind of evidence authorities might have [...] Hendrix recalled Jenkins saying. ‘I’m done’.
at done, adj.
[US] J. Fenton We Own This City 191: [Special Agent] Jensen considered a number of options for the takedown operation. The arrest teams could make predawn entry into the officers’ homes, the way most arrests are made.
at take-down, n.
[US] J. Fenton We Own This City 37: Jenkins loved rap music and ‘would try to freestyle battle other officers and even citizens.
at freestyle, v.
[US] (con. 2016) in J. Fenton We Own This City 180: ‘Baltimore County?’ Shropshire thought. ‘Fuck they want?’.
at fuck, the, phr.
[US] J. Fenton We Own This City 154: He is off the fucking chain, yo, that n—— [sic] yo, he’s off the chain, yo.’ ‘Fuck yeah.’.
at fuck yes! (excl.) under fuck!, excl.
[US] J. Fenton We Own This City 7: He had spent years in the game, with a record of drug arrests dating back to age thirteen.
at game, n.
[US] J. Fenton We Own This City 19: ‘Lock up every swinging dick,’ ‘No free passes, everybody goes’ .
at go, v.
[US] (con. 2016) in J. Fenton We Own This City 168: ‘Small shit will you get jammed up all the time, won’t it?’.
at jammed up, adv.
[US] (con. 2016) in J. Fenton We Own This City 173: ‘Yo, they found a joint in the alley,’ the man told the person, using slang for a gun.
at joint, n.
[US] J. Fenton We Own This City 4: [T]he officers most likely to make up the plainclothes units known around town as ‘knockers’ or ‘jumpout boys,’ a reference to their aggressive tactics.
at jump-out boy (n.) under jump, v.
[US] J. Fenton We Own This City 268: ‘They wonder why, when police—good cops—try and do their investigations and do their job the right way, and they get so much kickback and flak from the community’.
at kickback, n.1
[US] J. Fenton We Own This City 4: [T]he officers most likely to make up the plainclothes units known around town as ‘knockers’ or ‘jumpout boys,’ a reference to their aggressive tactics.
at knocko, n.
[US] J. Fenton We Own This City 125: [He] moved from popping Percocets to taking Xanax bars and drinking ‘lean,’ a cough syrup mixture.
at lean, n.
[US] (con. 2013) J. Fenton We Own This City 41: He was [...] in and out of jail for years. It got to the point where I just figured he would wind up dead or doing life in installments.
at life on the installment plan (n.) under life, n.
[US] J. Fenton We Own This City 16: Over the next eight months,[he]made a staggering 230 lockups.
at lockup, n.
[US] (con. 2016) in J. Fenton We Own This City 144: Tonight, May 4, 2016, my guys made our 50th handgun violation.
at make, v.
[US] (con. 2016) in J. Fenton We Own This City 153: ‘That is like some straight, like, off-the-wall type shit’ .
at off the wall, adj.
[US] (con. 2012) J. Fenton We Own This City 38: ‘I have two rules: We don’t put stuff on people, and we don’t take money’.
at put on, v.
[US] J. Fenton We Own This City 109: [H]e and other officers had rolled up on a group of men just after midnight .
at roll up on (v.) under roll, v.
[US] J. Fenton We Own This City 193: At one point the GPS on Jenkins’s phone showed that he was in Washington, D.C., and [Special Agent] Jensen feared they had a runner.
at runner, n.
[US] J. Fenton We Own This City 50: Gladstone was eating at a Peruvian chicken spot.
at spot, n.3
[US] J. Fenton We Own This City 19: ‘Lock up every swinging dick,’ ‘No free passes, everybody goes’ .
at swinging dick (n.) under swinging, adj.2
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