shoot a torpedo

shoot a torpedo
 v. phr.— «Shoot a torpedo: An inmate term for when officers allegedly abuse them by proxy, assigning them a roommate who will beat them inside the locked cell.» —“What the lingo means” by Adam C. Smith, Jo Becker St. Petersburg Times (Florida) Dec. 30, 1999. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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