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buy bust
 n.— «At the time of the Aug. 11, 2005, bust, members of the Marin Major Crimes Task Force already had purchased 400 pills from Marquez. They arranged to buy 2,000 pills for $10,000 in a transaction known to investigators as the “buy bust.”» —“Ex-Marin man set to begin sentence in massive ecstasy ring” by Nancy Isles Nation Marin Independent Journal (Novato, California) may 4, 2006. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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