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[US] Codella and Bennett Alphaville (2011) 77: They expected that the offical wheels of justice would grund up the guilty. But neither of them got any action from City Hall.
at action, n.
[US] Codella and Bennett Alphaville (2011) 111: No one would use a bottle as ‘ait mail’ and drop it on any of us as we walked a beat below.
at airmail (n.) under air, n.
[US] Codella and Bennett Alphaville (2011) 73: Avenue D is the last letter in Alphabet City.
at Alphabet City, n.
[US] Codella and Bennett Alphaville (2011) 231: All three of us were amped on adrenaline.
at amped, adj.
[US] Codella and Bennett Alphaville (2011) 253: Our bread and butter remained drug busts.
at bread and butter, n.1
[US] Codella and Bennett Alphaville (2011) 259: If they were going to have a knock-down, drag-out in Wald Houses, Housing PD need to be standing by.
at knock-down (and) drag-out, n.
[US] Codella and Bennett Alphaville (2011) 142: Small-time [...] nickel-and-dime crime complaints wasn’t for me.
at nickel-and-dime, adj.
[US] Codella and Bennett Alphaville (2011) 193: Booze, junk, coke, crack, angel dust, or a cocktail of two or more.
at angel dust, n.
[US] Codella and Bennett Alphaville (2011) 131: Sure as shit, I reached into the waistband of his pants and came up with five little envelopes of white powder.
at sure as shit under sure as..., phr.
[US] Codella and Bennett Alphaville (2011) 362: Even tough-talking, badass Animal eventually decided to cooperate.
at bad-ass, adj.
[US] Codella and Bennett Alphaville (2011) 208: Having bid a clipped but polite good-bye to my own pain-in-the-ass D/O at the Housing Command [etc.].
at pain-in-the-ass, adj.
[US] Codella and Bennett Alphaville (2011) 224: Yo, get your Hot One-Oh-Three here. Got that kick-ass shit, yo! Kick-ass D!
at kick-ass, adj.
[US] Codella and Bennett Alphaville (2011) 62: I flashed a disdainful look at my Colombian B-boy drug connection.
at B-boy, n.
[US] Codella and Bennett Alphaville (2011) 237: You can’t let the [...] baby mamas and the strung-out junkies get to you.
at baby-mother (n.) under baby, n.
[US] Codella and Bennett Alphaville (2011) 202: A four-hundred-dollar-a-day monkey on his back.
at monkey on one’s back, n.
[US] Codella and Bennett Alphaville (2011) 307: Every pair of bad-guy eyes on the block followed him.
at bad guy (n.) under bad, adj.
[US] Codella and Bennett Alphaville (2011) 142: If I could [...] sneak up on a junkie shooting or snorting a bag I snatched him up.
at bag, n.1
[US] Codella and Bennett Alphaville (2011) 97: They were good guys, didn’t bust balls (mine or anyone else’s) unjustifiably.
at break someone’s balls (v.) under balls, n.
[US] Codella and Bennett Alphaville (2011) 200: The two of you [...] either sweating your asses off or sweating your balls off.
at balls, n.
[US] Codella and Bennett Alphaville (2011) 6: He’ll boot up, bark out vomit, and feel the high fade fast.
at bark, v.2
[US] Codella and Bennett Alphaville (2011) 150: Bootleg heroin, the narcotic equivalent of bathtub gin.
at bathtub hooch (n.) under bathtub, n.
[US] Codella and Bennett Alphaville (2011) 28: They arrive in tricked out Jeeps, Beamers and Mertzs done up in gloss black, camo, or day Glo custom finish.
at Beamer, n.
[US] Codella and Bennett Alphaville (2011) 45: [He] made his kid rat on the guys whop beat Bruno down.
at beat down, v.
[US] Codella and Bennett Alphaville (2011) 29: When these guys [...] beef with each other or with other crews they settle it fast.
at beef, v.1
[US] Codella and Bennett Alphaville (2011) 21: An independent operator cultivating and maintaining necessary ties with the big shots.
at big shot, n.
[US] Codella and Bennett Alphaville (2011) 31: Sabu is guilty of[...] impersonating a big-wheel dealer from a seventies blaxploitation flick.
at big wheel (n.) under big, adj.
[US] Codella and Bennett Alphaville (2011) 60: What about my fuckin’ three hundred bucks [...] I just want my three bills.
at bill, n.3
[US] Codella and Bennett Alphaville (2011) 117: I piece together the bio of a guy powerful enough to grant Arthur the freedom he abused.
at bio, n.2
[US] Codella and Bennett Alphaville (2011) 204: I loved getting up and out and brigning some asshole in on a dope charge. The early birds came in handy.
at early bird, n.1
[US] Codella and Bennett Alphaville (2011) 125: Damn, it’s cold as a bitch.
at as a bitch (adv.) under bitch, n.1
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