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[US] R. Friedman Street Warrior 236: Speaking your mind in any bureaucracy is ill-advised, but I was never concerned with ass kissing.
at ass-kissing, n.
[US] R. Friedman Street Warrior 14: I thought it wise to give as many yes and no answers as possible, thinking whatever I say can come back to bite me in the ass.
at bite someone in/on the ass (v.) under bite, v.
[US] R. Friedman Street Warrior 243: They stood buck naked in the tenement hallway trying to cover themselves.
at buck-naked (adj.) under buck, n.1
[US] R. Friedman Street Warrior 140: The Ford left rubber fleeing the scene but got stuck in a queue of cars at a red light.
at burn rubber, v.
[US] R. Friedman Street Warrior 41: As I approached the station house [with a naked arrestee], a group of cops good-naturedly broke my chops.
at bust someone’s chops (v.) under chops, n.1
[US] R. Friedman Street Warrior 157: [T]he prisoner would offer a sum of money, drugs, some kind of stolen swag, sex—you name it—to be cut loose.
at cut loose, v.
[US] R. Friedman Street Warrior 230: She [...] wasn’t what you might call a ‘cop groupie’ [...] [T]here are quite a number of women who gravitate toward the badg.
at groupie, n.2
[US] R. Friedman Street Warrior 231: ‘I could be here until three, four in the morning, maybe later’ It was only 9 PM now. ‘I don’t want to hang you up.
at hang up, v.4
[US] R. Friedman Street Warrior 231: She perked up. ‘You can do that?’.
at perk up, v.
[US] R. Friedman Street Warrior 224: How a square badge guard could afford the place on what I pay him is a mystery’.
at square badge (n.) under square, adj.
[US] R. Friedman Street Warrior 133: My off-duty time was becoming more important to me. [...] My swing—a cop’s version of a weekend, no matter what days it fell on—was time I could slow down.
at swing, n.1
[US] R. Friedman Street Warrior 13: [H]is [Deputy Commissioner for Public Information] was weighing if I was wrapped tight enough to answer questions from the press without falling apart.
at wrapped tight(ly) (adj.) under tight, adj.
[US] R. Friedman Street Warrior 85: The tavern had been around since the Revolutionary War. George Washington was known to have tipped a few there.
at tip, v.2
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