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buy-and-bust noun a police operation in which an undercover officer buys an illegal drug and then immediately arrests the seller US, 2000- Typically, what an undercover cop will do, in a buy-bust situation, is try to buy something from you. — Joseph Pistone, Donnie Brasco, p. 52, 1987
- Officers of the San Diego Police Department were also there working an undercover “buy-bust” operation. — Bob Sipchen, Baby Insane and the Buddha, p. 346, 1993
- An undercover naroctics detective who minutes before had bought $30 worth of heroin in a buy-and-bust operation in Brooklyn yesterday shot and killed a man who tried to rob him, the police said. — New York Times, p. B3, 21 October 2000
- Before Reg went in, there was no TNT, no buy-and-bust program. — 50 Cent, From Pieces to Weight, p. 87, 2005
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