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[US] J. Mills Report to the Commissioner 153: He sounds like he’s been at a party, half in the bag, not very pleasant.
at in the bag under bag, n.1
[US] J. Mills Report to the Commissioner 103: Pat says, ‘I’m lookin’ for bams’ Bams are glass ampules of an amphetamine junkies like to mix with heroin.
at bam, n.2
[US] J. Mills Report to the Commissioner 100: The ultimate disaster is discovery—in undercover language, ‘a burn’ When junkies and pushers on a particular set learn or suspect an agent’s identity, he has ‘taken a burn’.
at burn, n.1
[US] J. Mills Report to the Commissioner 170: [H]e made it sound like a contract, a politician’s kid or something like that.
at contract, n.
[US] J. Mills Report to the Commissioner 63: He’d been mugged so often he knew the drill.
at drill, the, n.
[US] J. Mills Report to the Commissioner 106: ‘You know who resents you?’ she asks [...] ‘The gloms. The do-nothings. No matter how active you are, they’ll say, ‘Oh, she got in on a hook,’ explaining away their own incompetence.
at glom, n.1
[US] J. Mills Report to the Commissioner 73: [of a drug deal] [H]ere comes the gofor moving like a bastard, and he gets to them and passes the stuff and right then Crunch is all over them.
at gofer, n.
[US] J. Mills Report to the Commissioner 132: Whoever the big shot is gets a hand job about how the department turned things upside down looking for his daughter.
at hand job, n.
[US] J. Mills Report to the Commissioner 62: He already had his two collars and he stepped into a triple homicide, he’d just walk over the bodies and continue on his way. Why let it upset you? Roll with it.
at roll with (the punch) (v.) under roll, v.
[US] J. Mills Report to the Commissioner 200: [H]e threw shots at me, so that’s attempted murder of a police officer.
at throw, v.
[US] J. Mills Report to the Commissioner 77: ‘[I]f we bust the three of them, how are we gonna cut the undercover loose without it lookin’ bad, right?’.
at undercover, n.1
[US] J. Mills Report to the Commissioner 195: ‘She’s been working a dealer who just moved downtown’.
at work, v.
[US] J. Mills Report to the Commissioner 59: [W]hen they saw black men on the street who looked wrong [...] they’d jump them.
at wrong, adj.
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