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Stories Cops Only Tell Each Other 59: I was on a late tour, a one-arm post about a half a block long.at one-arm, adj.
Stories Cops Only Tell Each Other 59: I was on a late tour, a one-arm post about a half a block long. Stories Cops Only Tell Each Other 43: He follows him around until he catches Mack stewed to the balls.at to the balls (adv.) under balls, n.
Stories Cops Only Tell Each Other 84: Well, the big strangers approach their objective from different directions and they go to work. Bing, bang, pow! They beat the cruller off everyone on that corner.at bing-bang, n.
Stories Cops Only Tell Each Other 84: Well, the big strangers approach their objective from different directions and they go to work. Bing, bang, pow! They beat the cruller off everyone on that corner.at beat the shit out of, v.
Stories Cops Only Tell Each Other 56: [H]e once raided a Turkish bathhouse and locked up four priests for homosexual acts. [...] it was the worst assignment he ever had and it blew his mind for weeks.at blow one’s mind, v.
Stories Cops Only Tell Each Other 123: ‘[T]he kid? Did he come back later?’ ‘No [...] I never saw him again.’ He says it in a way that means that somebody did bounce in on him’ .at bounce in (v.) under bounce, v.1
Stories Cops Only Tell Each Other 140: I want a buck and a half for the information.at buck, n.3
Stories Cops Only Tell Each Other 73: Some wise-guy buffalo with his load on would come into Chinatown to eat and he’d start to push the waiters around.at buffalo, n.1
Stories Cops Only Tell Each Other 142: By posing as a Hunkie who liked to bet ‘chalk’ horses he had managed to bust open many a bookmaking operation.at chalk-eater (n.) under chalk, n.1
Stories Cops Only Tell Each Other 59: ‘Me, the man without a hook,’ said Mike, ‘the man without a rabbi to make a connection’.at connection, n.
Stories Cops Only Tell Each Other 148: A wooden board had been placed against a wall and one man was tossing the dice so that they struck the board before rolling to a stop. ‘Seven, the devil!’ someone said.at devil, the, phr.
Stories Cops Only Tell Each Other 167: The guys in my squad used to rib me. ‘What, you haven’t caught Farbie yet?’ ‘If he’s so easy,’ I dug back, ‘you try to bag him’ .at dig, v.1
Stories Cops Only Tell Each Other 100: Red pulls out his revolver. [...] If the thieves try to come out the front door he’ll have the drop on them .at have the drop (on) (v.) under drop, n.1
Stories Cops Only Tell Each Other 165: Our captain was a wop. Not a bad guy but a dry-ball. I ask him if there’s any chance of getting into Civil Defense—a day job. He says [...] drop dead.at dryball, n.
Stories Cops Only Tell Each Other 160: ‘I wasn’t made with a finger. [...] By the time most people are out of bed I’ve taken a shower, a shit, and a shave, walked the dog and had my breakfast. In other words, I’m no Joe-Schmoe’.at I wasn’t made with a finger under finger, n.
Stories Cops Only Tell Each Other 30: The stoolie who gave him [i.e. a drug dealer] to us had always given us top information.at give, v.2
Stories Cops Only Tell Each Other 60: Sergeant Heiden – was out to harpoon me.at harpoon, v.
Stories Cops Only Tell Each Other 171: I go out and celebrate. I go to a bar in my old neighborhood. [...] I got stewed to the hat.at up to the hat (adj.) under hat, n.
Stories Cops Only Tell Each Other 179: John the Polack. Could he drink! He had a hollow leg.at hollow leg, n.
Stories Cops Only Tell Each Other 70: And then every once in a while a dab at the old inkwell.at inkwell (n.) under ink, n.
Stories Cops Only Tell Each Other 201: ‘I’ve known that guy for some time and I always thought he was a regular joe. He works hard and he works alone’.at regular joe (n.) under joe, n.1
Stories Cops Only Tell Each Other 162: ‘[E]verybody thinks we’re morons.’ With a motion of his hand he included everyone in the room, in the Police Department. ‘Joe Schmoes’ .at Joe Schmo (n.) under joe, n.1
Stories Cops Only Tell Each Other 57: But if one [gambler] did make a squawk Fred could say, ‘Did you ever in your life pay me as much as a kopeck? Have you ever even seen me before?’.at kopec, n.
Stories Cops Only Tell Each Other 164: ‘I put gallons away myself. You’d think I had a wooden leg’.at wooden leg, n.1
Stories Cops Only Tell Each Other 24: ‘One night the captain walks into the stationhouse in civvies. His clothes are dirty and he’s got a load of oil in him’.at load, n.
Stories Cops Only Tell Each Other 136: Aldo and I stop at a candystore [sic] and buy our guy two packs of cigarettes. I always do that when I lock up someone.at lock up, v.
Stories Cops Only Tell Each Other 131: ‘So what if each week I don’t get to muzzle a new broad! I’m satisfied to go home and kiss my tired and sometimes nagging wife’ .at muzzle, v.
Stories Cops Only Tell Each Other 97: Five-dollar players became ten-dollar players and those who usually bet ‘place and show’ now insisted they had bet ‘on the nose’ .at on the nose under nose, n.
Stories Cops Only Tell Each Other 42: ‘Pull up to that car,’ he tells me. I step on the gas and pull alongside.at step on the gas (v.) under step on, v.
Stories Cops Only Tell Each Other 54: [T]he judges! It costs fifty, a hundred big ones for that job. [...] And when a judge can’t put up his own cash for the job, somebody owns him.at own, v.
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