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Panic in Needle Park (1971) 37: I gotta turn tricks for the bread, then score, then find him, and then practically put the needle in his arm for him.at turn a trick, v.2
Panic in Needle Park (1971) 37: I gotta turn tricks for the bread, then score, then find him, and then practically put the needle in his arm for him. Panic in Needle Park (1971) 51: Santo said he could get me a piece any time I wanted, ’cause he’s not married to Tony you know. He has a little action on the side, too, that even Tony don’t know about.at action, n.
Panic in Needle Park (1971) 154: We figure we’ll go up and angel off some of his customers. Angeling off is when you know someone’s dealing and you lay back some place and bust the customers coming out. Sometimes you do it to get information on exactly where the dealer is and sometimes you do it, like this time, just to make business rough for him.at angel off (v.) under angel, n.
Panic in Needle Park (1971) 165: Don’t try to figure the angles yourself. You might end up hurting someone.at angle, n.
Panic in Needle Park (1971) 168: She’ll go away a long, long, long time. ’Cause you know she’s got this three-year SS from the last time and like they’ll lay that on her too.at go away (v.) under away, adj.
Panic in Needle Park (1971) 42: Mike found the Murphy game [...] considerably less harrowing than his old profession as a Badger Man. In that scheme he had worked with a prostitute, waiting for her to get a John into her room, then barging in and announcing angrily that he was the girl’s husband and was going to take the John apart limb by limb. Then he allowed his fury to be stilled by cash.at badger-man (n.) under badger, n.1
Panic in Needle Park (1971) 20: He bought heroin in pieces (ounces), cut it, bagged it, and handed it over on consignment to a handful of pushers.at bag, v.
Panic in Needle Park (1971) 133: Bobby got off and left me holding the bag, so to speak. And I had the manager on my heels, for at least two blocks.at hold the bag, v.
Panic in Needle Park (1971) 133: Bobby got off and left me holding the bag, so to speak. And I had the manager on my heels, for at least two blocks.at hold the bag, v.
Panic in Needle Park (1971) 20: Often the junkie pusher will deal ‘nickel bags’ at $5 each, as well as $3 ‘treys’.at nickel bag, n.
Panic in Needle Park (1971) 148: There’s a good chance that he’ll beat the thing in court and walk out.at beat, v.
Panic in Needle Park (1971) 167: What’s he giving Bobby, anyway? Needle Park. Big deal. He’s got the whole West Side. To him Needle Park is a drop in the bucket.at big deal!, excl.
Panic in Needle Park (1971) 21: He had done twenty bits in jail for a total of nine years.at do a/one’s bit (v.) under bit, n.1
Panic in Needle Park (1971) 93–4: If a junkie tastes some stuff before he uses it and it’s real sweet he figures he’s bought a blank and gets upset. So we put in the quinine to make it bitter.at blank, n.
Panic in Needle Park (1971) 104: ‘There,’ Hank said finally, squeezing the eyedropper. ‘A good hit. Next time be more careful. You keep blowing shots like that and all you’ll have for an arm is abscesses.’.at blow a/one’s shot (v.) under blow, v.2
Panic in Needle Park (1971) 41: He was on amphetamines, stimulants, and had been shooting bombitas, small glass ampules of a drug called Desoxyn.at bombita, n.
Panic in Needle Park (1971) 149: Or maybe the narco can get them cut loose before they’re booked.at book, v.1
Panic in Needle Park (1971) 76: She used to go out on dates, like from her books — she had whole filing drawers full of books and index cards on all her dates, you know, even with what they talked about on the last date, so when she saw the guy again, no matter how long it had been, she could bring up the same subject and ask him about it.at book, n.
Panic in Needle Park (1971) 101: Instead of shooting the fluid in immediately he squeezed in a few drops, let it back up into the eyedropper again, squeezed in a little more, let it back up, squeezed more, and continued the in-and-out process until the fluid in the dropper was dark red with blood. The technique, known as ‘booting,’ is believed to prolong the drug’s initial effect.at booting, n.3
Panic in Needle Park (1971) 49: Some dumb spic broad hustling a guy who’s probably too stupid to know she’s on junk.at broad, n.2
Panic in Needle Park (1971) 198: You remember Mickey, how he used to make you laugh with the stories about when he was in Sing Sing and he kept the bulls running around?at bull, n.5
Panic in Needle Park (1971) 20: These come in ‘bundles’ similar to half loads, except that the package costs $75 and consists of twenty-five $5 bags.at bundle, n.1
Panic in Needle Park (1971) 23: Most junkies never tried it because it meant going through too many ‘changes,’ too many complications.at go through changes (v.) under changes, n.
Panic in Needle Park (1971) 43: At the moment, like Sammy, he had only a chippy, and got most of the heroin he needed by hanging around other addicts who occasionally turned him on with a taste, gave him a weak shot from their own supply.at chippie, n.5
Panic in Needle Park (1971) 35: He was only ‘chipping,’ using drugs occasionally when they were handy, and had not yet acquired a habit.at chipping, n.3
Panic in Needle Park (1971) 55: Instead of going drinking to get drunk, I went and bought a stick of pot. And I choked my brains out. I was started.at choke, v.
Panic in Needle Park (1971) 85: I have a little chippy now since I got out of jail but I want to clean up.at clean up, v.
Panic in Needle Park (1971) 96: It’s perfectly safe, right? Like here I am, clean as anything, nothing on me. I just sit here.at clean, adj.
Panic in Needle Park (1971) 135: Even that first habit that I kicked, which was the worst that I ever kicked, I kicked cold on my own volition.at cold, adv.
Panic in Needle Park (1971) 29: You never knew when a good connection might walk by, or a trick Helen had been looking for, or someone you knew you could con out of a buck or two.at con out of (v.) under con, v.
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