throw down
n.— «Prosecutor John Quarenghi hinted throughout the trial that Zeigler had the dope in the black bag to use as a “throw down”—street language for planting evidence on a suspect.» —“Ex-officer is sentenced in shooting” by William C. Lhotka St. Louis Post-Dispatch (Mo.) Mar. 4, 2005. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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