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[US] in J. Breslin World According to Breslin (1985) 90: When a young guy stays at home at night he says, ‘I binged it last night.’ This comes from the ‘bing’ or isolation cell, at Rikers [Island].
at bing, n.2
[US] in J. Breslin World According to Breslin (1985) 85: ‘How does he rip them off ?’ ‘He got a gun’.
at rip off, v.
[US] in J. Breslin World According to Breslin (1985) 61: ‘I smoke White Owl blunts. That’s the new thing’.
at blunt, n.3
[US] in J. Breslin World According to Breslin (1985) 63: ‘You drop a dime, that’s ghetto talk for telling on somebody. put a dime in the phone and call up on him. If you say you drop a quarter, that means you go a lot more to tell [...] If you drop a dollar, you may get killed for it’.
at drop a dime (v.) under dime, n.
[US] in J. Breslin World According to Breslin (1985) 63: ‘We went to the concert to get paid [i.e. by stealing gold chains] They said it was a free concert, but we went there to get paid’.
at paid, adj.
[US] in J. Breslin World According to Breslin (1985) 62: ‘You need a tool to protect you’.
at tool, n.1
[US] in J. Breslin World According to Breslin (1985) 61: ‘You better worry about today. They vic you around here.’ ‘Vic?’ ‘Victim. They make a victim of you’.
at vic, v.
[US] J. Breslin World According to Breslin 90: ‘Take him off the count’ is their [i.e a street gang’s] way of saying that a person should be killed. When a young person is ‘on the count,’ it means he is back on the streets.
at take someone off the count (v.) under count, n.3
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