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buck fifty
 n.— «Henry also involved a practice called “a buck fifty”—targeting any innocent person. “You have to approach that person and pretty much slash them from the neck down,” he said.» —“Gangs Mark Their Territory (Pt. 2)” WTVF-TV (Nashville, Tennessee) Apr. 28, 2006. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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