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A Good Fella’s Guide to New York choose

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[US] H. Hill A Good Fella’s Guide To N.Y. 123: Candy, markers, ammo, liners, stocking stuffer, sweetener, garnish, and pledges are all terms for cash.
at ammo, n.
[US] H. Hill Good Fella’s Guide to N.Y. 10: You don’t want to find out what ‘Bushwick bushwack’ is.
at bushwhack, n.
[US] H. Hill Good Fella’s Guide to N.Y. 163: To earn a ‘button’ was to become a made man, an untouchable.
at button, n.4
[US] H. Hill A Good Fella’s Guide To N.Y. 123: Candy, markers, ammo, liners, stocking stuffer, sweetener, garnish, and pledges are all terms for cash.
at candy, n.
[US] H. Hill A Good Fella’s Guide To N.Y. 8: The Capos are the middlemen, sometimes called skippers.
at capo, n.
[US] H. Hill A Good Fella’s Guide To N.Y. 13: If some punk asks you if your ride is ‘clean,’ he wants to know if it was tailed or not.
at clean, adj.
[US] H. Hill A Good Fella’s Guide To N.Y. 214: MAFIA’S TOP-TEN HITS. Squirmer...Steak House Ambush ...Copper Migraine...Brooklyn Fogger...Sicilian Neck Tie...Bad Starter...Garrote...
at Colombian necktie (n.) under Colombian, n.
[US] H. Hill A Good Fella’s Guide To N.Y. 161: An ‘empty suit’ or ‘jack-off’ was the mobster wanna-be, the guy that just hung around us to feel cool. We were; he wasn’t.
at empty suit (n.) under empty, adj.
[US] H. Hill A Good Fella’s Guide To N.Y. 161: An ‘empty suit’ or ‘jack-off’ was the mobster wanna-be, the guy that just hung around us to feel cool. We were; he wasn’t.
at jack-off, n.
[US] H. Hill A Good Fella’s Guide To N.Y. 123: Candy, markers, ammo, liners, stocking stuffer, sweetener, garnish, and pledges are all terms for cash.
at liner, n.1
[US] H. Hill A Good Fella’s Guide To N.Y. 163: To earn a ‘button’ was to become a made man, an untouchable.
at made man (n.) under made, adj.
[US] H. Hill A Good Fella’s Guide To N.Y. 123: Candy, markers, ammo, liners, stocking stuffer, sweetener, garnish, and pledges are all terms for cash.
at marker, n.2
[US] H. Hill A Good Fella’s Guide To N.Y. 95: ‘Shares grass with the shamrocks’ meant the Irish mob was an ally.
at shamrock, n.
[US] H. Hill A Good Fella’s Guide To N.Y. 8: The Capos are the middlemen, sometimes called skippers.
at skipper, n.2
[US] H. Hill A Good Fella’s Guide To N.Y. 123: Candy, markers, ammo, liners, stocking stuffer, sweetener, garnish, and pledges are all terms for cash.
at stocking, n.1
[US] H. Hill A Good Fella’s Guide To N.Y. 61: ‘He went upstate’ meant the guy got whacked, and don’t ask again.
at go upstate (v.) under upstate, adv.
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