1993 E. Richards Cocaine True 115: There were dozens of dealers out there [...] When a lookout screamed ‘Agua’ or ‘Boombah,’ slang for police, they would escape through the empty houses. [Ibid.] 153: They get themselves thirty dollars a day to tell the pushers when the Agua, the cops, are comin’.at agua!, excl.
1993 E. Richards Cocaine True 23: Taiwal, you snort it. It’s mixed with codeine and doctors sell it [...] If you get a pill, they call it pancake and syrup. A lot of little kids are doing pancakes and syrup.at pancake(s) and syrup, n.
1993 E. Richards Cocaine True 64: They had this heroin called ‘Tango and Cash’ in the Bronx, and it was killing people. It was horse tranquilizer, phenotol.at tango and cash, n.
1993 E. Richards Cocaine True 115: There were dozens of dealers out there [...] When a lookout screamed ‘Agua’ or ‘Boombah,’ slang for police, they would escape through the empty houses.at boombah, n.
1993 E. Richards Cocaine True 65: I’m being careful by putting it in little by little. It’s called booting.at booting, n.3
1993 E. Richards Cocaine True 23: [of cocaine] I would come to work and pick up a five-hundred dollar bundle.at bundle, n.1
1993 E. Richards Cocaine True 93: The judge told me, ‘You got a year to keep your son, to do what you got to do to clean up.’.at clean up, v.
1993 E. Richards Cocaine True 22: Harold’s apartment is a crack den, where people come in to smoke.at crack house (n.) under crack, n.7
1993 E. Richards Cocaine True 8: He was crashing, his nerves were in ashes [...] He couldn’t borrow money for even half a cap.at crash (out), v.
1993 E. Richards Cocaine True 115: We stuck ’em up, took like two thousand dollar and a couple of G-packages from ’em.at G-pack (n.) under G, n.
1993 E. Richards Cocaine True 115: I been a gagger too, just to make some money. [...] Sharon was a lookout on the corner, when Jackie gagged four guys in a car. They found out and came back looking for her.at gag, v.
1993 E. Richards Cocaine True 127: I’m gonna buy me a pair of white leather Reeboks and a sweatsuit, and I’m gonna go girl hoppin’.at girl-hopping (n.) under girl, n.1
1993 E. Richards Cocaine True 64: Syringes, toys, gizmos, guns, works, call ’em what you want.at gizmo, n.
1993 E. Richards Cocaine True 88: With the methadone, Mariella would be groovy-bang; zooted.at groovy, adj.2
1993 E. Richards Cocaine True 65: I’m being careful putting it in little by little. It’s called booting. [...] Gunning it, pushing it all in in one shot – people are dying because of it. Gunning it one day I had a stroke.at gun it (v.) under gun, n.1
1993 E. Richards Cocaine True 64: Syringes, toys, gizmos, guns, works, call ’em what you want.at gun, n.1
1993 E. Richards Cocaine True 34: Ain’t I tell you to go on no hard shit. [...] The other sons smoke reefer, but don’t do the hard stuff.at hard stuff, n.
1993 E. Richards Cocaine True 8: Now take your baking soda with the cocaine. Use it to cook the cocaine with a little bit of water [...] Look at the bake, it reaches together and hardens and what you got? [...] You got yourself a rock.at homebake, n.
1993 E. Richards Cocaine True 114: Hustlers inside the abandoned buildings sold [...] Taiwal for two dollars to the ‘huffers’ who wanted a quick breathy high.at huffer, n.2
1993 E. Richards Cocaine True 42: I would never, ever eat. If I tried I would be jacking up, I’d be vomitting [sic] even from water.at jack up, v.5
1993 E. Richards Cocaine True 127: Man, there goes Nutbucket. She’s a real nut.at nutbar (n.) under nut, n.2