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[US] R. Dougherty Commissioner 337: We cooperate and get our heads knocked in by that ass-kicker Joe Caron.
at ass-kicker, n.
[US] R. Dougherty Commissioner 45: ‘Benez is bad medicine?’ Kane nodded: ‘Very bad. He’s a killer.’.
at bad medicine (n.) under bad, adj.
[US] R. Dougherty Commissioner 27: That cacknacker. That lousy little spic.
at cock-knocker (n.) under cock, n.3
[US] R. Dougherty Commissioner 24: It would be, in the language of the cops, a ‘good collar’.
at collar, n.
[US] R. Dougherty Commissioner 33: Random stops were made to see if a given post was covered or if the cop assigned was ‘cooped’.
at coop, v.
[US] R. Dougherty Commissioner 25: Now [...] let’s cut the crap.
at cut the crap, v.
[US] R. Dougherty Commissioner 44: Two of what our Chief Inspector [...] calls ‘slashing detectives,’ but that some of us calls ‘headline hunters’ have just stepped all over their whangs this morning.
at step on one’s dick (v.) under dick, n.1
[US] R. Dougherty Commissioner 265: He was a very dumb harp that Paddy.
at harp, n.1
[US] R. Dougherty Commissioner 337: Is this a nuthatch or ain’t it?
at nut hatch (n.) under nut, n.2
[US] R. Dougherty Commissioner 353: Look, schmuckhead!
at schmuck, n.
[US] R. Dougherty Commissioner 276: Oh, don’t be sill.
at sil, adj.
[US] R. Dougherty Commissioner 6: When precinct commands, in such lucrative sections as the Tenderloin district, were purchased by their captains at prices of $100,000 or more.
at tenderloin, n.
[US] R. Dougherty Commissioner 44: These two wisenheimers wound up getting treated like hicks in a whorehouse.
at wisenheimer, n.
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