2010 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.
2010 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.
2010 Codella and Bennett Alphaville (2011) 73: Avenue D is the last letter in Alphabet City.at Alphabet City, n.
2010 Codella and Bennett Alphaville (2011) 231: All three of us were amped on adrenaline.at amped, adj.
2010 Codella and Bennett Alphaville (2011) 253: Our bread and butter remained drug busts.at bread and butter, n.1
2010 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.
2010 Codella and Bennett Alphaville (2011) 142: Small-time [...] nickel-and-dime crime complaints wasn’t for me.at nickel-and-dime, adj.
2010 Codella and Bennett Alphaville (2011) 193: Booze, junk, coke, crack, angel dust, or a cocktail of two or more.at angel dust, n.
2010 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.
2010 Codella and Bennett Alphaville (2011) 362: Even tough-talking, badass Animal eventually decided to cooperate.at bad-ass, adj.
2010 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.
2010 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.
2010 Codella and Bennett Alphaville (2011) 62: I flashed a disdainful look at my Colombian B-boy drug connection.at B-boy, n.
2010 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.
2010 Codella and Bennett Alphaville (2011) 202: A four-hundred-dollar-a-day monkey on his back.at monkey on one’s back, n.
2010 Codella and Bennett Alphaville (2011) 307: Every pair of bad-guy eyes on the block followed him.at bad guy (n.) under bad, adj.
2010 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
2010 Codella and Bennett Alphaville (2011) 200: The two of you [...] either sweating your asses off or sweating your balls off.at balls, n.
2010 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.
2010 Codella and Bennett Alphaville (2011) 6: He’ll boot up, bark out vomit, and feel the high fade fast.at bark, v.2
2010 Codella and Bennett Alphaville (2011) 150: Bootleg heroin, the narcotic equivalent of bathtub gin.at bathtub hooch (n.) under bathtub, n.
2010 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.
2010 Codella and Bennett Alphaville (2011) 45: [He] made his kid rat on the guys whop beat Bruno down.at beat down, v.
2010 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
2010 Codella and Bennett Alphaville (2011) 21: An independent operator cultivating and maintaining necessary ties with the big shots.at big shot, n.
2010 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.
2010 Codella and Bennett Alphaville (2011) 60: What about my fuckin’ three hundred bucks [...] I just want my three bills.at bill, n.3
2010 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
2010 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
2010 Codella and Bennett Alphaville (2011) 125: Damn, it’s cold as a bitch.at as a bitch (adv.) under bitch, n.1