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Police Headquarters (1956) 166: Maybe we were off base. I don’t know. You’re a right footer, Frankie.at off base (adj.) under base, n.2
Police Headquarters (1956) 166: Maybe we were off base. I don’t know. You’re a right footer, Frankie. Police Headquarters (1956) 283: Are you kidding? A half kilo of pure H would be worth at least fifteen big ones.at big one, n.
Police Headquarters (1956) 235: The term ‘live cannon’ is one given to a pickpocket skilful enough to remove a wallet from the back pocket of an alert and intelligent victim.at cannon, n.2
Police Headquarters (1956) 269: None had actually been physiologically hooked; each had what the narcotics men call a ‘chicken habit’.at chicken, adj.
Police Headquarters (1956) 49: ‘Shoo-flies’ were men sent out of Headquarters in plain clothes to check up on the men on the beat.at shoo-fly, n.
Police Headquarters (1956) 269: I saw the Seniors who were skinpoppers taking their shots. And one of them dared me again to try the H.at H, n.
Police Headquarters (1956) 269: None had actually been physiologically hooked; each had what the narcotics men call a ‘chicken habit’.at habit, n.
Police Headquarters (1956) 276: ‘What kind of pad was it?’ Phillips might ask. ‘It was a pusher hangout,’ Terranova would say.at hang-out, n.1
Police Headquarters (1956) 227: Wait until they come out and then grab them and we’ll hit the place.at hit, v.
Police Headquarters (1956) 235: The skilful hand of the hook has opened the victim’s bag and removed anything of value from it.at hook, n.1
Police Headquarters (1956) 302: Letting an eighteen-year-old kid go out with $100,000 in ice around her neck is bad.at ice, n.1
Police Headquarters (1956) 273: He led them to an apartment where a ‘jag’ (narcotics party) was being held.at jag, n.1
Police Headquarters (1956) 31: They began to use the police slang [...] a dope peddler [was] a ‘junkie’.at junkie, n.
Police Headquarters (1956) 167: ‘I’m the law. Put your hands up,’ he yelled.at law, n.
Police Headquarters (1956) 92: ‘For the love of Heaven,’ he said.at for the love of Mike! (excl.) under love, n.
Police Headquarters (1956) 235: The two moll buzzers will apologize profusely as they jostle the woman.at moll buzzer (n.) under moll, n.
Police Headquarters (1956) 276: My boys have spotted several known schmeckers and a couple of mules.at mule, n.
Police Headquarters (1956) 135: ‘A double saw?’ Phillips looked at the stoolie coldly. ‘That isn’t worth more than a pound.’.at pound, n.3
Police Headquarters (1956) 126: The big brass in the Department didn’t mean a thing to John Lyons if he thought one of his men was getting a bad rap from a newspaper.at rap, n.1
Police Headquarters (1956) 230: There is in the underworld a certain cachet in being known as a safe-and-loft man.at safe-and-loft man (n.) under safe, n.
Police Headquarters (1956) 135: That ought to be worth a double saw.at double sawbuck (n.) under sawbuck, n.
Police Headquarters (1956) 266: Reefers didn’t do a thing for me, so I tried H. That sent me.at send, v.
Police Headquarters (1956) 169: He specialized in ‘shakes’ [...] by aligning himself with hotel clerks in the Times Square area. The clerks knew pretty well which couples who occupied the rooms upstairs were unmatched.at shake, n.1
Police Headquarters (1956) 73: Put a shield on a man—that don’t make him honest.at shield, n.
Police Headquarters (1956) 75: Snatchers (payroll), Snatchers (pocketbooks).at snatcher, n.
Police Headquarters (1956) 282: Is Lipsius a stand-up guy?at stand-up guy (n.) under stand-up, adj.
Police Headquarters (1956) 77: Bonwit Teller has had a series of pocketbook robberies. The character who is getting away with these bags [...] goes into the ladies room [...] ‘Toilet workers — Female.’.at worker, n.1
Police Headquarters (1956) 75: ‘Gimme a yellow sheet on Joe Jerk.’ A ‘yellow sheet’ [...] is merely a typewritten copy of a man’s criminal record.at yellow sheet (n.) under yellow, adj.
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