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torpedo
noun- a hired gunman or killer US, 1929
- “I’m a torpedo, and the best gun-hand livin’,” the Toad answered. — Chester Gould, Dick Tracy Meets the Night Crawler, p. 36, 1945
- [U]ntil he made his exit he was head torpedo for the mob. — Mezz Mezzrow, Really the Blues, p. 101, 1946
- He was put on the spot because he refused to be “organized”; preferred old-fashioned gang methods learned when he was the Number One torpedo for Murder, Inc. — Jack Lait and Lee Mortimer, New York Confidential, p. 186, 1948
- A goddamned Commie gestapo man. A hatchetman, a torpedo, a lot of things you want to call him. — Mickey Spillane, One Lonely Night, p. 77, 1951
- A couple of torpedos are out gunning for him. — Thurston Scott, Cure it with Honey, p. 154, 1951
- Dion O’Banion’s gun hand was firmly gripped by one Capone torpedo[.] — Frederic Sondern Jr., Brotherhood of Evil, p. 70, 1959
- — Joseph E. Ragen and Charles Finston, Inside the World’s Toughest Prison, p. 821, 1962: “Penitentiary and underworld glossary”
- In this part of the country, I’m known as a torpedo. — Bruce Jackson, In the Life, p. 159, 1972
- You heard his record–talk about safe streets–is any street safe with a torpedo like that on it? — Edwin Torres, Carlito’s Way, p. 137, 1975
- And the tough torpedo in the silk tuxedo / Proving his way with a gun. (Collected in 1967). — Dennis Wepman et al., The Life, p. 162, 1976
- I tapped Truck Infante for one of his Teamster torpedos. — Seth Morgan, Homeboy, p. 97, 1990
- The floor stiff was Fitz Steinkamp, Chicago-Milwaukee gunsel, one conviction for attempted murder, currently on parole and believed to be a Jerry Katzenbach torpedo. — James Ellroy, Hollywood Nocturnes, p. 218, 1994
- the penis US
- — Chris Lewis, The Dictionary of Playground Slang, p. 236, 2003
- a marijuana cigarette SOUTH AFRICA
- a marijuana and crack cocaine cigarette US
- — US Department of Justice, Street Terms, October 1994
- — Mike Haskins, Drugs, p. 289, 2003
- in trucking, a large, bullet-shaped light on a cab US
- — Montie Tak, Truck Talk, p. 169, 1971
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