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[US] B. McCarthy Vice Cop 180: By the time we had fished haggling [...] we were all pretty tired, wrung out.
at wrung out (like a dishcloth), adj.
[US] B. McCarthy Vice Cop 197: Doug alibied that he was the big money man and wanted to inspect the Stradivarius personally.
at alibi (up), v.
[US] B. McCarthy Vice Cop 183: ‘[T]his deputy inspector apparently gets tipped off and has himself suddenly transferred to another borough, out of harm’s way. The special prosecutor is left holding the bag’.
at hold the bag, v.
[US] B. McCarthy Vice Cop 161: [T]he best way for him to establish his identity as a cop who could be ‘reached’ was to convince people that his Pimp Team was in the bag as well.
at in the bag under bag, n.1
[US] B. McCarthy Vice Cop 46: ‘You didn’t have to do anything overtly illegal to get put on a pad. All you had to do was go out and bang the balls off of whomever the hierarchy identified’.
at bang the balls off (v.) under balls, n.
[US] B. McCarthy Vice Cop 215: ‘That little guy had guts [...] I don’t think I would have barked at Zuffo that way’.
at bark at (v.) under bark, v.2
[US] B. McCarthy Vice Cop 183: To resolve the issue of the cocaine possession [...] to blow out the arrest, McCarthy suggested that they concentrate on getting to a deputy inspector whom he already suspected of being on the take.
at blow out, v.1
[US] B. McCarthy Vice Cop 181: But Gold had one more bomb to drop. ‘There’s another house,’ he said. ‘And I got a problem there’.
at bomb, n.
[US] B. McCarthy Vice Cop 229: Mendino fell into that category of psychos who were outside of technique. [...] All they needed was an excuse to turn bonecrusher, to make a bowling ball out of somebody’s face.
at bonecrusher, n.
[US] B. McCarthy Vice Cop 160: ‘Let’s show a little respect for our new partner.’ ‘Respect this,’ Tony answered, suddenly grabbing at his crotch. This time, even Flash Gordon broke up.
at break up, v.
[US] B. McCarthy Vice Cop 152: This was where the girls were making their money [...] giving customers rough hand-jobs under the tables [...] There were variations from place to place, but it was the typical industry of the bust-out bar.
at bust-out bar (n.) under bust-out, adj.2
[US] B. McCarthy Vice Cop 55: Being taken care of could mean anything from a blow-job in the back room to free drinks, and, invariably, money would change hands.
at take care of, v.
[US] B. McCarthy Vice Cop 55: [H]e thought some more about what Gussman was offering him: the chance to run a clean squad.
at clean, adj.
[US] B. McCarthy Vice Cop 69: Those two hooked up with another cop who had come on about the same time I did.
at come on, v.2
[US] B. McCarthy Vice Cop 273: ‘A car pulled up next to us and I could see the face of the driver—it was Bobby’s brother. This was their crash car’.
at crash car (n.) under crash, n.1
[US] B. McCarthy Vice Cop 135: McCarthy’s Vice team would work it from their end, initially, then turn it over to Narcotics if the tip was good. A double-bang case like that always looked good.
at double-bang (n.) under double, adj.
[US] B. McCarthy Vice Cop 1240: They were all off-duty now [...] Everybody needed a break.
at down time (v.) under down time, n.
[US] B. McCarthy Vice Cop 197: During one of Doug’s sit-downs with the burglar [...] they begin making plans for this art expert to come in on the deal.
at sit-down, n.
[US] B. McCarthy Vice Cop 38: ‘Traffic had been manned by dump jobs from all over the city. [...] They forced them there’.
at dump, v.
[US] B. McCarthy Vice Cop 166: Smith also lived out the stereotype of the Super Fly, sporting capes and what the Vice cops referred to as ‘felony hats’—wide-brimmed, garish fedoras in the early 1970s.
at felony hat, n.
[US] B. McCarthy Vice Cop 46: ‘[D]ishonest cops who flaked people, who planted phony evidence like dope or numbers slips’.
at flake, v.2
[US] B. McCarthy Vice Cop 236: Vitaliano was sitting in a flash car [...] a biscuit-brown Thunderbird with wire wheels and a roadster roof—any pimp would be proud to drive it, and that was exactly what Vitaliano was pretending to be.
at flash car (n.) under flash, adj.
[US] B. McCarthy Vice Cop 103: ‘People know who I am, how I operate. I haven’t exactly been quiet about it. And I doubt that they would buy a flip-flop at this point’.
at flip-flop, n.1
[US] B. McCarthy Vice Cop 12: McCarthy would float as one of the extra bodies, dividing his time between the 3-2 in Harlem and the 7-3 or 7-9 in Brooklyn.
at float, v.1
[US] B. McCarthy Vice Cop 97: ‘[T]he manager or someone had access to the sealed court records. That’s a very serious breach of police security. I tell him that I will pay him ten thousand dollars if he tells me who gave up the warrant. Who was the corrupt person who gave up the info about the warrant?’.
at give up, v.
[US] B. McCarthy Vice Cop 97: ‘All the bathrooms had glory holes. You could stick your dick through the wall and another guy on the other side would blow you’.
at glory hole, n.2
[US] B. McCarthy Vice Cop 197: ‘If I even suspected him of double-dealing me, however innocently, his ass was gone, possibly all the way to Attica’.
at gone, adj.1
[US] B. McCarthy Vice Cop 182: ‘Now there’s three of them in on it. Each one is a good fellow, a made guy’.
at good fellow (n.) under good, adj.1
[US] B. McCarthy Vice Cop 46: ‘A shakedown was known as making a guy good. If you made him good, you made him pay you off, either to stay in business or for services rendered’.
at good, adj.1
[US] B. McCarthy Vice Cop 118: A ‘goulash house’ was a place that would have drinks and gambling and women. That was the old Mafia term for the after-hours clubs [...] Very heavy people inside’.
at goulash house (n.) under goulash, n.
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