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[US] Sutton & Linn Where The Money Was (2004) 319: I was surrounded by a double rank of armed bluecoats.
at bluecoat, n.
[US] Sutton & Linn Where The Money Was (2004) 229: The first thing that comes into the mind of an inmate on a thing like that [i.e. a psychiatric interview] is that they’re going to try to ‘bug’ him.
at bug, v.6
[US] Sutton & Linn Where The Money Was (2004) 350: The Bronx County jail, more popularly known as the Singing School because that’s where they always sent the canaries.
at canary, n.1
[US] Sutton & Linn Where The Money Was (2004) 392: The ‘dirty shirts’ – the ambulance chasers of the courtroom [...] They wouldn’t know how to actually try a case if their life depended on it.
at dirty shirt, n.2
[US] Sutton & Linn Where The Money Was (2004) 359: A ‘dropper’ – a heating device which was made by attaching a couple of wires to a carbon rod.
at dropper, n.5
[US] Sutton & Linn Where The Money Was (2004) 210: He was going to jigger the door in a way that would allow us to get in.
at jigger, v.2
[US] Sutton & Linn Where The Money Was (2004) 239: I had got to know Tenuto because he locked in the 7 block.
at lock, v.1
[US] Sutton & Linn Where The Money Was (2004) 263: A cop in jail [...] The guards hate him because he went lousy.
at lousy, adj.
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