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[US] R. Daley Target Blue 297: Teddy kept turning it back on, explaining that it was a beeper, a miniature walkie-talkie.
at beeper, n.
[US] R. Daley Target Blue 472: ‘The higher up the ladder you go, the easier the burn,’ [Undercover] Detective Conlon said. ‘Because the higher up you go, the fewer people this guy sells to. So it’s easier for him to narrow it down to you’.
at burn, n.1
[US] R. Daley Target Blue 192: [A] New Jersey Mafia chief [...] described Colombo as a ‘bust-out guy all his life,’ in a telephone conversation wiretapped by the FBI. A bust-out guy [...] was a petty gambler.
at bust-out, adj.2
[US] R. Daley Target Blue 66: Smith seemed to believe that every cop on the street had his hand out, that every cop who was offered graft would take it.
at have one’s hand out (v.) under hand, n.1
[US] R. Daley Target Blue 390: [A] grocery store that was a ‘hard core’ gambling location at 518 West 159th Street.
at hardcore, adj.
[US] R. Daley Target Blue 181: ‘That kid never lived so high in his life. We made a gentleman out of that guy’ .
at live high (v.) under high, adj.1
[US] R. Daley Target Blue 511: [T]he cost of paying for the room for [witness] Luparelli and meals for all the detectives came to $65 per day. The detectives were eating high.
at high, adv.
[US] R. Daley Target Blue 389: It claimed that six persons were paid $100 each to take ‘stand-in’ or ‘accommodation’ arrests.
at stand-in, n.
[US] R. Daley Target Blue 491: The Planning Division staff had culled Personnel Bureau statistics for a bilingual college graduate living in the 24th Precinct, and had come up with Juris. Juris was called in and told, ‘You are it’.
at it, n.1
[US] R. Daley Target Blue 365: Captain Clark got promoted (‘made’ in Police Department jargon) because he was recommended by the First Deputy.
at make, v.
[US] R. Daley Target Blue 205: The Gallo mob was getting thinned out so fast that the survivors and their lion had taken to the mattresses.
at go to the mattresses (v.) under mattress, n.
[US] R. Daley Target Blue 437: There had been a police narco team in the area.
at narco, n.
[US] R. Daley Target Blue 471: [O]nce outside, someone would be waiting who either took the customer for a ride, or for a walk. The number was done to him on the outside.
at do a number on (v.) under number, n.
[US] R. Daley Target Blue 34: If Durk’s got these [college] kids all turned on, he needs a place where he can put them.
at turned on, adj.
[US] R. Daley Target Blue 452: A deck, enough for a single shot in the arm, cost from $2 to $8, and each deck was sold in a thin glassine envelope such as gauze bandages sometimes came in. A bundle was 25 to 30 decks. A spoon amounted to about 35 decks of heroin. A quarter was 50 to 55 decks.
at quarter, n.
[US] R. Daley Target Blue 101: [T]his was known in derision as the Rubber Gun Squad, or the Bow and Arrow Squad; and it was in many respects the ultimate disgrace that a policeman could experience.
at rubber gun (brigade / cop / squad) (n.) under rubber, adj.
[US] R. Daley Target Blue 462: One ounce equals about 440 grains. Pure heroin can be hit nine times, scrambled, mixed with milk sugar and stretched [...] one ounce of pure heroin can be stretched to about 4000 grains.
at scramble, n.2
[US] R. Daley Target Blue 462: One ounce equals about 440 grains. Pure heroin can be hit nine times, scrambled, mixed with milk sugar and stretched [...] one ounce of pure heroin can be stretched to about 4000 grains.
at stretch, v.
[US] R. Daley Target Blue 383: [T]he witness cried out, ‘Un-fucking-believable. That’s him. I’d know that voice anywhere’.
at unfuckingbelievable, adj.
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