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A Couple of Cops: On the Street, in the Crime Lab choose

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[US] G. Cuomo Couple of Cops 161: So this guy [i.e. a small time drug dealer] said, Hey, give me a break, all right, and I’ll take you to a bundle connection who’s handling cocaine in a really big way. A bundle connection was a mid-level guy who people working the streets would buy from.
at bundle connection (n.) under bundle, n.1
[US] G. Cuomo Couple of Cops 190: Since the medics on the [fire] scene hadn’t found any sign of wounds and beating, and neither body had — in the parlance — been cooked, it was assumed that they’d died of smoke inhalation.
at cook, v.1
[US] G. Cuomo Couple of Cops 162: But we quickly realized that they were what we called ounce dealers, with a batch of coke on the kitchen table that they’d been shaving down with a razor and packaging to sell to their street dealers.
at ounce man, n.
[US] G. Cuomo Couple of Cops 180: They [drug importers] spent all their time waiting for what they called a move, meaning a shipment coming in from Bolivia.
at move, n.
[US] G. Cuomo Couple of Cops 289: At the same time, they [other policemen] couldn’t resist joshing me about what a snap their [crime] scene was, what we call a ‘grounder,’ an easy hopper to the short stop.
at snap, n.2
[US] G. Cuomo Couple of Cops 158: We occasionally ran into hash, peddled in what was called a sole, because it was shaped like a foot. A sole weighed about half a pound. Users would shave the hash with a razor and smoke it in a pipe.
at soles, n.1
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