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Walking the Beat 16: ‘Your wife is home slaving and you go out, get a bag on, and come home and make her think God knows what’.at have a bag on (v.) under bag, n.1
Walking the Beat 16: ‘Your wife is home slaving and you go out, get a bag on, and come home and make her think God knows what’. Walking the Beat 36: Now if you don’t start back to that pier I’ll change your banana nose into a cherry smash.at banana nose (n.) under banana, n.
Walking the Beat 16: I take a good look at this guy. A monkey! he has a bean belly, a head shaped like a football.at beanbelly, n.2
Walking the Beat 15: ‘[W]e get a radio run. Family trouble [...] this blister and her husband. She’s waving a kitchen knife.at blister, n.1
Walking the Beat 84: ‘[I]f you get tired of writing this crap [i.e. summonses] and want to take a blow I’ll write them in for you’.at blow, n.3
Walking the Beat 28: Was I bouncing last night! Till three in the morning. In one ginmill out another. . . . What a head I got today! at bounce, v.1
Walking the Beat 185: ‘He’s so sanctimonious! But that didn’t keep him from bumping our old skipper out of the precinct so he could get the job’ .at bump (off), v.
Walking the Beat 94: ‘Try to sober up. Maybe . . . Maybe if you threw up . . . or something . . . I’ll cover for you here’.at cover (for) (v.) under cover, v.
Walking the Beat 79: ‘You got nothing to worry about, kid. Let them sue. Let them do anything they want. You’re covered: you did everything according to the book’.at covered, adj.
Walking the Beat 49: I made up my mind I was going to deck her that night.at deck, v.2
Walking the Beat 162: Once he [i.e. a sergeant] asked me the whereabouts of a card game on my post. I told him I didn’t know of any game. Why should I tell him? Does Macy’s tell Gimbels?at does Macy’s tell Gimbel’s?, phr.
Walking the Beat 107: At each business establishment along the way Paul checked to see that the front door was locked. This chore is called ‘shaking hands with doorknobs’.at shake hands with doorknobs (v.) under doorknob, n.3
Walking the Beat 66: While I’m on vacation the Chief Inspector’s men knock off a dice game in our sector [...] Anyway they flop every one of us who worked the sector.at flop, v.
Walking the Beat 146: I go to this luncheonette where he hangs out. It’s a ptomaine joint. I order ham and eggs [...] and I eat slow. I want to eat fast ‘cause it’s a grease joint but I eat slow.at grease joint (n.) under grease, n.1
Walking the Beat 71: Two or three people who had been walking along paused to watch the motorist get harpooned by the cop.at harpoon, v.
Walking the Beat 28: Was I bouncing last night! Till three in the morning. In one ginmill out another. . . . What a head I got today! at head, n.
Walking the Beat 44: I like this post, he thought. Things really jump on this block. at jump, v.
Walking the Beat 66: While I’m on vacation the Chief Inspector’s men knock off a dice game in our sector .at knock off, v.
Walking the Beat 97: ‘Everybody wants to judge us these days! [...] What the hell do they know about a mob? No bastard knows anything except the poor cop whose ass is on the line’.at on the line, phr.
Walking the Beat 87: ‘You’re too easy, Loo,’ the Sergeant answered him.at loo, n.2
Walking the Beat 67: I think he wanted to go in [to the bar] himself. . . . You know he likes his oil.’ ‘I know. I know how much he likes his oil. I had to drive him home a few times’.at oil, n.
Walking the Beat 179: ‘They’re not looking to break this up. They only want to be seen.’ ‘Seen?’ ‘Yeah: seen. They want a taste of the sugar’ .at see, v.
Walking the Beat 185: ‘He’s so sanctimonious! But that didn’t keep him from bumping our old skipper out of the precinct so he could get the job’ .at skipper, n.2
Walking the Beat 168: It [i.e. an outing] was strictly stag: the wives remained at home.at stag, adj.
Walking the Beat 112: ‘What happens if, in the end, you prove his point?’ ‘And what’s his point?’ ‘That you never should have tagged him’.at tag, v.1
Walking the Beat 179: ‘They’re not looking to break this up. They only want to be seen.’ ‘Seen?’ ‘Yeah: seen. They want a taste of the sugar’ .at taste, n.
Walking the Beat 135: Paul had no rabbis. He had no hooks. He had nothing. This meant he would never get a ‘tit’ job. When one has a cushy assignment the other cops refer to him as being ‘on the tit’ or ‘milking the tit’.at living off the tit under tit, n.2
Walking the Beat 135: Paul had no rabbis. He had no hooks. He had nothing. This meant he would never get a ‘tit’ job. When one has a cushy assignment the other cops refer to him as being ‘on the tit’ or ‘milking the tit’.at on the tit (adj.) under tit, n.2
Walking the Beat 135: Paul had no rabbis. He had no hooks. He had nothing. This meant he would never get a ‘tit’ job. When one has a cushy assignment the other cops refer to him as being ‘on the tit’ or ‘milking the tit’.at tit job (n.) under tit, n.2
Walking the Beat 69: This hooker [...] I give her the money, she starts to strip: I can’t lock her up! I just can’t! What a doll! So I do the trick and leave.at do the trick (v.) under trick, n.1
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