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[US] (con. 1972) Jurgenson & Cea Circle of Six 53: [A]ll solid cops already asses-and-elbows into all of the BLA’s players.
at ass-to-elbows (adv.) under ass, n.
[US] (con. 1972) Jurgenson & Cea Circle of Six 75: Had they any information to trade, they’d do it for a price that would inevitably end up banged through their veins.
at bang, v.1
[US] (con. 1972) Jurgenson & Cea Circle of Six 216: I was hit with a financial questionnaire, a cavity search [. . .] and my family’s past banking [...] that was a scumbag and inappropriate play. They had nothing to do with any of this. It was a black bag tactic to add pressure from within my home.
at black bag (n.) under black, adj.
[US] (con. 1972) Jurgenson & Cea Circle of Six 130: I explained my case to him [...] skipped over the speed bumps we’d hit.
at speed bump (n.) under bump, n.1
[US] (con. 1972) Jurgenson & Cea Circle of Six 83: If we were seen by anyone, the operation was a burn.
at burn, n.1
[US] (con. 1972) Jurgenson & Cea Circle of Six 59: [Q]uestioning prisoners in the overflowing detention cell or cage.
at cage, n.
[US] (con. 1972) Jurgenson & Cea Circle of Six 156: [M]y eight-hour tours were never shorter than thirteen hours a clip.
at clip, n.1
[US] (con. 1972) Jurgenson & Cea Circle of Six 157: Fuck the foreplay. I decided to go directly for the cookies. ‘I know you were there that day’.
at cookie, n.1
[US] (con. 1972) Jurgenson & Cea Circle of Six xvii: Randy Jurgensen, the omnipresent spoke on a wheel of detectives or DTs.
at d.t., n.
[US] (con. 1972) Jurgenson & Cea Circle of Six 144: I was tired of being undermined by these pricks, tired of being the sappy suck-dick to him and the miserable gutless pissants he had colluded with.
at suck dick (v.) under dick, n.1
[US] (con. 1972) Jurgenson & Cea Circle of Six 134: I’d been done dirty by the job, the New York City Police Department, but now it was my turn at infidelity.
at do someone the dirty (v.) under dirty, n.
[US] (con. 1972) Jurgenson & Cea Circle of Six 61: I was now given the plain facts: my wife—the job—was a two-dollar whore.
at two-dollar, adj.
[US] (con. 1972) Jurgenson & Cea Circle of Six 75: ‘Two brothers I know from Park Avenue dollar two-three’ Park Avenue dollar two-three was Park Avenue at 123rd Street .
at dollar, n.1
[US] (con. 1972) Jurgenson & Cea Circle of Six 8: They [i.e. patrolmen] were drenched in sweat and completely gassed.
at gassed(-out), adj.
[US] (con. 1972) Jurgenson & Cea Circle of Six 83: Butler screamed from above, ‘You got them?’ ‘Yeah, we’re good, Billy’.
at good, adj.1
[US] (con. 1972) Jurgenson & Cea Circle of Six 140: Van Lindt knew I was way off the NYPD grid on this case, which is why he never asked questions.
at off the grid (adj.) under grid, n.1
[US] (con. 1972) Jurgenson & Cea Circle of Six 219: [M]y gut told me to stay on course and bring Dupree to justice.
at gut, n.
[US] (con. 1972) Jurgenson & Cea Circle of Six 132: [I]t was going to be almost impossible to get any credible street intel on them.
at intel, n.
[US] (con. 1972) Jurgenson & Cea Circle of Six 47: If a cop is accused of any wrongdoing on or off the job or in cop-speak—if he or she gets jammed up— [etc].
at jammed up, adv.
[US] (con. 1975) Jurgenson & Cea Circle of Six 168: Jimmy asked, as only a New York cop could ask, ‘What’s with the X’s in your names? Malcolm X, Joe blow double X, Supreme triple X. I don’t get it’.
at Joe Blow (n.) under joe, n.1
[US] (con. 1972) Jurgenson & Cea Circle of Six 75: But now, this simple street gesture gave me a much-needed kick in the ass.
at kick in the arse (n.) under kick, n.5
[US] (con. 1972) Jurgenson & Cea Circle of Six 170: It was cop-to-cop, extending gratitude for looking out. That was what this was all about, looking out for one another.
at look out (v.) under look, v.
[US] (con. 1972) Jurgenson & Cea Circle of Six 92: [of NYPD HQ] I tell the truth and those guys in the puzzle palace won’t fire me.
at puzzle palace (n.) under puzzle, n.2
[US] (con. 1972) Jurgenson & Cea Circle of Six 40: Heavily armed and dedicated rubes [...] tugged back and forth over politically drawn lines.
at rube, n.1
[US] (con. 1950s) Jurgenson & Cea Circle of Six 63: I was what they called a runner, picking up the work, or the actual slips, from three different drop spots.
at runner, n.
[US] (con. 1972) Jurgenson & Cea Circle of Six 225: We were lucky that we were all salty dogs on the stand [and] had stood before this judge many times.
at salty dog (n.) under salty, adj.
[US] (con. 1972) Jurgenson & Cea Circle of Six 95: I heard their radios come alive with transmissions. We got him. [...] Have ESU respond to the set, need extractions in the apartment.
at set, n.2
[US] (con. 1972) Jurgenson & Cea Circle of Six 192: The motel had one room, so I was sexiled to the outside steps.
at sexile, n.
[US] (con. 1972) Jurgenson & Cea Circle of Six 53: [A] bunch of shields from central Harlem, all solid cops.
at shield, n.
[US] (con. 1972) Jurgenson & Cea Circle of Six 60: He motioned a shooter of liquor to his mouth.
at shooter, n.3
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