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[US] C. Stroud Close Pursuit (1988) 205: Even if he did ace one of his own people.
at ace, v.
[US] C. Stroud Close Pursuit (1988) 15: Detective Eddie Kennedy got out of a gypsy cab at the intersection of Avenue C and East 4th in Alphabet City.
at Alphabet City, n.
[US] C. Stroud Close Pursuit (1988) 134: They’ve gone into chambers to jack their way around the Fourth.
at jack around, v.
[US] C. Stroud Close Pursuit (1988) 204: He was in damn fine shape when he tear-assed all over Harlem with the cops at his tail.
at tear arse, v.
[US] C. Stroud Close Pursuit (1988) 149: Keep a leash on him. He bites somebody, it’s your ass!
at be one’s arse under arse, n.
[US] C. Stroud Close Pursuit (1988) 38: Kennedy has to get up at five in the morning [...] and dragass down to this shithole.
at drag ass, v.
[US] C. Stroud Close Pursuit (1988) 214: They’re climbing up my ass already on the rape-homicide thing [...] and so far I don’t see diddly on that one.
at climb up someone’s ass under ass, n.
[US] C. Stroud Close Pursuit (1988) 315: So he got over the fence, in some rat’s-ass airport [...] somewhere in the Caribbean.
at rat’s ass, n.
[US] C. Stroud Close Pursuit (1988) 243: My Mauris? Blue lizard, Eddie. Got them at Leighton’s up on the B’way.
at B-way, n.
[US] C. Stroud Close Pursuit (1988) 91: Kennedy. You been on since six this morning. You look like forty miles of bad road.
at — miles of bad road, n.
[US] C. Stroud Close Pursuit (1988) 135: Soon as we wrap here, me and Frank’ll bop over and bag ’em.
at bag, v.
[US] C. Stroud Close Pursuit (1988) 111: The rest of the police were on him at once and he was in the bag.
at in the bag under bag, n.1
[US] C. Stroud Close Pursuit (1988) 222: They find Cardillo on the floor with a bullet in him. Dying. He bails out later at Lenox Hill.
at bail out, v.
[US] C. Stroud Close Pursuit (1988) 151: ‘He wore a wire against his own.’ ‘Yeah. He did. They had him by the balls.’.
at have someone/something by the balls (v.) under balls, n.
[US] C. Stroud Close Pursuit (1988) 319: Banker: Street slang for the person who receives and holds cash paid out for drugs.
at banker, n.
[US] C. Stroud Close Pursuit (1988) 79: Stokovich wanted no prima donnas on the squad, and he was a bear for records, summaries, notes.
at bear for, a under bear, n.
[US] C. Stroud Close Pursuit (1988) 33: ‘How the hell’d the guy float all the way down to the Thirty-fourth Street heliport?’ Stokovich shrugged. ‘Beats me.’.
at beats me! (excl.) under beat, v.
[US] C. Stroud Close Pursuit (1988) 52: He puts the blocks to Mantecado about which you don’t want to know.
at put the blocks on (v.) under block, n.6
[US] C. Stroud Close Pursuit (1988) 94: There was a Transit cop in the car, a Latin kid. [...] a ‘cream’ in a car full of home boys and bloods from the black projects.
at blood, n.2
[US] C. Stroud Close Pursuit (1988) 212: Are we blue-skying it here? Are we into a covert op situation-wise?
at blue sky, v.
[US] C. Stroud Close Pursuit (1988) 48: His character was ‘Ramon,’ ex-psychiatric case summa cum yo-yo from Bellevue with a minor in blue sky and toot. [Ibid.] 305: He gives me free methadone so I feel better. I don’t need sky if I have my doctor.
at blue sky, n.3
[US] C. Stroud Close Pursuit (1988) 107: A blue-and-white with a pair of jakes pulled up to the curb.
at blue-and-white (n.) under blue, adj.1
[US] C. Stroud Close Pursuit (1988) 46: It was just possible that officer Stokes got the slightest boot out of this, too, but you wouldn’t know it.
at boot, n.4
[US] C. Stroud Close Pursuit (1988) 54: I’ll want to bounce this Nadine kid, see what she has to say. [Ibid.] 92: Wolfie, you gonna bounce every nigger in town? Your attitude sucks.
at bounce, v.1
[US] C. Stroud Close Pursuit (1988) 98: Ain’t no Jewboy that, and that ain’t no vic. That be a DT.
at Jew boy, n.
[US] C. Stroud Close Pursuit (1988) 148: A mole, he’d be a party guy, everybody’s bud.
at bud, n.1
[US] C. Stroud Close Pursuit (1988) 173: She was looking for something in the detective’s face, some sign that he wasn’t a bad bull.
at bull, n.5
[US] C. Stroud Close Pursuit (1988) 12: He has gone through a hole in the floor of this burnout up in the Bronx.
at burnout, n.
[US] C. Stroud Close Pursuit (1988) 95: ‘Be gettin’ busy, my man,’ said Jimmy.
at get busy (v.) under busy, adj.
[US] C. Stroud Close Pursuit (1988) 237: Can you give her a buzz at 1430 hours. Tell her I’m on a surveillance detail.
at give someone a buzz (v.) under buzz, n.
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