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[US] 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.
[US] 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.
[US] 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.
[US] E. Richards Cocaine True 92: She hated the dealers coming in with their beepers.
at beeper, n.
[US] 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.
[US] E. Richards Cocaine True 65: I’m being careful by putting it in little by little. It’s called booting.
at booting, n.3
[US] E. Richards Cocaine True 23: [of cocaine] I would come to work and pick up a five-hundred dollar bundle.
at bundle, n.1
[US] E. Richards Cocaine True 8: I’m on the floor chickening.
at chicken, v.2
[US] 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.
[US] E. Richards Cocaine True 143: You know, it’s the cloud that will get you.
at cloud, n.
[US] E. Richards Cocaine True 143: Originally, it was the cloud that was fun.
at cloud, n.
[US] 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
[US] 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.
[US] E. Richards Cocaine True 143: Fuck it. Drop dead! I’ve got my gun.
at drop dead!, excl.
[US] 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.
[US] 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.
[US] 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
[US] E. Richards Cocaine True 64: Syringes, toys, gizmos, guns, works, call ’em what you want.
at gizmo, n.
[US] E. Richards Cocaine True 88: With the methadone, Mariella would be groovy-bang; zooted.
at groovy, adj.2
[US] 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
[US] E. Richards Cocaine True 64: Syringes, toys, gizmos, guns, works, call ’em what you want.
at gun, n.1
[US] 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.
[US] E. Richards Cocaine True 79: Paulie was smokin’ the pipe heavy.
at heavy, adv.
[US] E. Richards Cocaine True 8: Look at the bake, it reaches together and hardens.
at homebake, n.
[US] 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.
[US] E. Richards Cocaine True 126: From then on we be hookey school.
at hooky, v.
[US] 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
[US] 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
[US] E. Richards Cocaine True 136: She lay out with them dummies who shoot drugs.
at lay, v.3
[US] E. Richards Cocaine True 127: Man, there goes Nutbucket. She’s a real nut.
at nutbar (n.) under nut, n.2
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