jump out boys
n.— «He emerges from a wood-frame house and quickly rides off, watching vigilantly for Miami police cruisers and “them Jump Out Boys,” the undercover vice cops rolling in unmarked rental cars.…”It’s kind of weird how every dope fiend in this neighborhood knows Tuesdays and Thursdays the Jump Out Boys are coming. Yet a lot of them get busted anyway. What the fuck is wrong with that picture? If you know there is a good probability the Jump Outs are going to be at the dope hole, it just doesn’t make sense to go there.”» —“Crack Kills” by Francisco Alvarado Miami New Times Jan. 27, 2005. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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