Crime & Prisons Slang, Jargon, and New Words from Double-Tongued Dictionary

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torpedoing n. The first ring under probe involved accomplices in Venezuela, who stuffed duffel bags with cocaine and surreptitiously fastened them to the sea-water intakes underside docked boats destined for Canada.…The method is called “torpedoing.” [English Crime & Prisons Drugs Nautical] [full cite] (Dec. 12, 2006)

track n. He had sex with her, and the next night took her to the “track” on Rockaway Boulevard, where she turned her first trick.…That winter, Romeo took Lucilia to the track, to bachelor parties, and to clubs.…A week later, she was arrested on the track at Pennsylvania Avenue. [English Crime & Prisons Sex & Sexuality Slang] [full cite] (Apr. 14, 2007)

train n. The police call it the Neighborhood Enforcement Stabilization Task Force, a unit charged with aggressively enforcing quality-of-life crimes, but people in the neighborhood ominously refer to it as “the train.”…The task force got its nickname because the officers are dispatched into high crime areas and arrive in a caravan, or train, of five to six police cars. [English United States Crime & Prisons Police] [full cite] (Jul. 15, 2004)

trick bag n. Because there are so many confidential informants and sex offenders, the Bureau of Prisons (BOP) does not allow Pre-Sentence Reports to be in a convict’s possession. Inmates throughout the BOP suffer boot-parties on an alarming scale because of this “trick bag.”…Borrowing or loaning personal items leaves one open to becoming a victim. It’s called a “Trick Bag.” You never know what might develop. [English Crime & Prisons] [full cite] (Jun. 14, 2005)

trunk you n. Fulton County Deputy District Attorney Deborah Espy told me about a pimp enforcement practice called “trunk you.” “They throw the children in the trunk of a car, take them to another city and trade them to another pimp.” [English Crime & Prisons Slang] [full cite] (Apr. 27, 2006)

tuna laundering n. Despite international quotas, the appetite for bluefin tuna is so insatiable that in the Mediterranean it is on the verge of extinction, according to the World Wildlife Fund. To curb quota violations and what the industry calls tuna laundering, Japanese officials have started carrying out DNA tests on imported bluefin tuna. [English Animals, Insects, & Birds Crime & Prisons] [full cite] (Oct. 6, 2006)

unicorn defense n. The mixup occurred when a deputy prosecutor misunderstood an e-mail from a colleague who used the phrase “unicorn defense,” thinking it was an actual statement from Holliday, Paxinos said. “Unicorn defense” is a slang term used by prosecutors when a defendant blames some mythical person for a crime, he said. [English Crime & Prisons Law] [full cite] (Mar. 15, 2007)

vice mail n. Federal prosecutors yesterday filed criminal charges against three people who allegedly preyed on unsuspecting investors with voice mail messages disguised as confidential stock tips left on the wrong answering machine. At the same time, the Securities and Exchange Commission lodged civil fraud charges against the trio, who authorities say stood at the center of a plot to drum up interest in six thinly traded stocks by using a previously unknown method known as “vice mail.” [English Crime & Prisons Money & Finance] [full cite] (Aug. 1, 2006)

vishing n. Last year some of us made jokes about Vishing on funsec, today it’s a reality.…Special thanks to the good guys at Websense and the PIRT guys at CastleCOPS PIRT. [English Crime & Prisons Online Technology New or Nonce] [full cite] (Jul. 12, 2006)

vishing n. Vishing, in which the members received a phone call, allegedly from Numerica, requesting them to call a toll-free number to update their accounts. [English Crime & Prisons Online] [full cite] (Jun. 4, 2007)

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