1977 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.
1977 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
1977 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
1977 B. Davidson Collura (1978) 75: It was easy to spot the dealer himself, the ‘big man’.at big man (n.) under big, adj.
1977 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
1977 B. Davidson Collura (1978) 114: It was taking the minds of the crowd off their original objective of ‘burning the undercover’.at burn, v.
1977 B. Davidson Collura (1978) 182: Hey, man, you wanna blow some coke while we doin’ business.at blow coke (v.) under coke, n.1
1977 B. Davidson Collura (1978) 162: John was a high-class wheeler-dealer in heroin.at wheeler-dealer, n.
1977 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.
1977 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
1977 B. Davidson Collura (1978) 103: As so frequently happens in undercover police ‘gigs’, the entire operation was stalled.at gig, n.1
1977 B. Davidson Collura (1978) 143: Collura recognized them immediately as ‘working chicks’ – call girls.at working girl, n.
1977 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.
1977 B. Davidson Collura (1978) 108: Do you think this dude knows any of the higher-ups on the distributor level?at higher-up, n.
1977 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
1977 B. Davidson Collura (1978) 181: Then came Collura’s hyped-up sleepless night of 3–4 January.at hyped, adj.
1977 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.
1977 B. Davidson Collura (1978) 49: Collura knew there was only a brief step from skin popping [...] to mainlining.at mainline, n.
1977 B. Davidson Collura (1978) 172: If you got merchandise to sell, I’m lookin’ to buy.at merchandise, n.
1977 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
1977 B. Davidson Collura (1978) 41: We’re both paisanos, kid, so if the Micks give you any trouble, let me know.at paisan, n.
1977 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.
1977 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.
1977 B. Davidson Collura (1978) 75: Space was never stoned ‘on the set’ ( a street drug-buying operation).at set, n.2