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[US] B. Davidson Collura (1978) 74: His make-believe bad-guy activity did not interfere with his real-life involvement.
at bad guy (n.) under bad, adj.
[US] B. Davidson Collura (1978) 81: Two of them [...] did a lot of huddling together and were on a ‘goofin bag’, giggling and fooling around in the typical behaviour of the marijuana smoker.
at bag, n.1
[US] B. Davidson Collura (1978) 163: A shipment of nearly pure heroin [...] would produce a profit of 3,000 per cent when ‘banged out’ and distributed in diluted amounts on the street.
at bang out (v.) under bang, v.1
[US] B. Davidson Collura (1978) 75: It was easy to spot the dealer himself, the ‘big man’.
at big man (n.) under big, adj.
[US] B. Davidson Collura (1978) 15: He was a young Mafioso, trying to ‘make his bones’ [...] by taking on a major narcotics buy, an assignment the dons and caporegimes would not touch.
at make one’s bones (v.) under bone, n.1
[US] B. Davidson Collura (1978) 114: It was taking the minds of the crowd off their original objective of ‘burning the undercover’.
at burn, v.
[US] B. Davidson Collura (1978) 62: He was ‘burned’ – but good.
at burned, adj.1
[US] B. Davidson Collura (1978) 108: I’m getting tired of the chicken shit.
at chickenshit, n.
[US] B. Davidson Collura (1978) 182: Hey, man, you wanna blow some coke while we doin’ business.
at blow coke (v.) under coke, n.1
[US] B. Davidson Collura (1978) 162: John was a high-class wheeler-dealer in heroin.
at wheeler-dealer, n.
[US] B. Davidson Collura (1978) 15: He was a young Mafioso, trying to ‘make his bones’ [...] by taking on a major narcotics buy, an assignment the dons and caporegimes would not touch.
at don, n.
[US] B. Davidson Collura (1978) 13: An incredible eighty-eight per cent-pure sample of heroin, direct from one of the big ‘factories’ in Marseille.
at factory, n.2
[US] B. Davidson Collura (1978) 103: As so frequently happens in undercover police ‘gigs’, the entire operation was stalled.
at gig, n.1
[US] B. Davidson Collura (1978) 143: Collura recognized them immediately as ‘working chicks’ – call girls.
at working girl, n.
[US] B. Davidson Collura (1978) 92: Hang loose, kid. We’ll take care of it.
at hang loose!, excl.
[US] B. Davidson Collura (1978) 162: John was a high-class wheeler-dealer in heroin [...] He operated on the ‘heavy’ level of wholesaling.
at heavy, adj.
[US] B. Davidson Collura (1978) 106: 50 smartly dressed, well-heeled patrons.
at well-heeled, adj.1
[US] B. Davidson Collura (1978) 108: Do you think this dude knows any of the higher-ups on the distributor level?
at higher-up, n.
[US] B. Davidson Collura (1978) 128: The little group nervously took the Lexington Avenue Subway – the fuckin’ iron horse – getting off at 14th Street.
at iron horse, n.3
[US] B. Davidson Collura (1978) 181: Then came Collura’s hyped-up sleepless night of 3–4 January.
at hyped, adj.
[US] B. Davidson Collura (1978) 57: J.D. meant John Doe [...] In short, there were four J.D.’s who only Collura could find, and he was sent out to find them.
at j.d., n.
[US] B. Davidson Collura (1978) 49: Collura knew there was only a brief step from skin popping [...] to mainlining.
at mainline, n.
[US] B. Davidson Collura (1978) 172: If you got merchandise to sell, I’m lookin’ to buy.
at merchandise, n.
[US] B. Davidson Collura (1978) 173: They got an oh-zee for you to taste.
at o.z., n.
[US] B. Davidson Collura (1978) 61: [He] bought a ‘bundle’ of fifteen $5 ‘nickel’ bags of heroin, which he would cut up into many more ‘treys’, or $3 bags, which he would ‘off’.
at off, v.1
[US] B. Davidson Collura (1978) 103: Collura was on dead center with Dante Diamonds.
at on with, phr.
[US] B. Davidson Collura (1978) 41: We’re both paisanos, kid, so if the Micks give you any trouble, let me know.
at paisan, n.
[US] B. Davidson Collura (1978) 52: All ‘pickups’ were being held in abeyance for Collura’s crucial ‘B’ buy on Chuck, the ‘main man’.
at pick-up, n.
[US] B. Davidson Collura (1978) 171: ‘We just wanna know who you’re repping.’ ‘It’s none of your fuckin’ business. Just as it’s none of my fuckin’ business who you’re frontin’ for.’.
at rep, v.
[US] B. Davidson Collura (1978) 75: Space was never stoned ‘on the set’ ( a street drug-buying operation).
at set, n.2
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