1975 E. Torres Carlito’s Way 8: If you inclined to plea-cop, them streets contributed to the delinquency of a whole lot of minors. [Ibid.] 98: I ain’t copping no plea, motherfucker.at cop a plea, v.
1975 E. Torres Carlito’s Way 5: Only plea I ever copped cost me three years in the slams.at cop a plea, v.
1975 E. Torres Carlito’s Way 49: ‘You’re pals with Tommy Dunphy [...]?’ ‘Yeah, we’re aces.’.at ace, n.
1975 E. Torres Carlito’s Way 20: I’m going to go all the way.at go all the way (v.) under all the way, adv.
1975 E. Torres Carlito’s Way 21: ‘Like Earl used to say, yo’ hole and yo’ soul is buck neck-id in the Joint. So that’s how come three cats from different alleys got close and stayed close’.at alley, n.1
1975 E. Torres Carlito’s Way 96: You gonna come in here with a rice-and-beans shakedown?at rice-and-beans, adj.
1975 E. Torres Carlito’s Way 15: Big Jeff from the ‘Mutt and jeff’ detective team from the Twenty-Third.at mutt and jeff, n.
1975 E. Torres Carlito’s Way 118: Wesley Scott [...] An anglo with a last name for a first name is automatically a prick.at anglo, n.
1975 E. Torres Carlito’s Way 51: The Mapp case came down — all the cons went ape.at go ape (v.) under ape, adj.
1975 E. Torres Carlito’s Way 139: Get him off the script for one question and he gets the apple right away.at get the apple (v.) under apple, n.1
1975 E. Torres Carlito’s Way 73: We got you for assualt [...] How do you like them onions?at how do you like them apples?, phr.
1975 E. Torres Carlito’s Way 23: The St. Nick’s Arena, the Manhattan Center, the Caborojeño, Broadway Casino—seems like everybody was dancing their ass off.at — the arse/ass off under arse, n.
1975 E. Torres Carlito’s Way 18: I was happy as a pig in shit.at ...a pig in shit under happy as..., adj.
1975 E. Torres Carlito’s Way 88: Lllod, he is a dead-ass, don’t let’s get weighted down with him.at dead ass, n.
1975 E. Torres Carlito’s Way 14: Sometime Moran the cop would get a bug up his ass and grab me.at have a bug up one’s ass under ass, n.
1975 E. Torres Carlito’s Way 40: Every time Steinhardt gets an answer to his stupid-ass questions he looks at the jury.at -ass, sfx
1975 E. Torres Carlito’s Way 22: Me and Earl runnin’ around outside bare-ass in the cold.at bare-ass, adj.
1975 E. Torres Carlito’s Way 25: Marlon Brando sit in on conga (couldn’t play to save his ass).at save one’s ass under ass, n.
1975 E. Torres Carlito’s Way 65: I hereby order the D.A. committed for ninety days [...] for presenting such a shit-ass case.at shit-ass, adj.
1975 E. Torres Carlito’s Way 145: The big gui [sic] like to fall through his own asshole.at fall through one’s own asshole (v.) under asshole, n.
1975 E. Torres Carlito’s Way 138: Who does he think he is [...] Where his head at?at where one is at, phr.
1975 E. Torres Carlito’s Way 49: Myself, I didn’t want to know [...] ’cause then you got to take an attitude.at cop an attitude (v.) under attitude, n.