Toronto cop just recently put together a dictionary of gang code.fwiw.
http://www.citynews.ca/2015/12/02/exclusive-how-one-toronto-cop-wrote-the-book-on-gang-slang/
"In an ongoing game of high-stakes cat and mouse, gang members in Toronto have devised an ever-evolving coded language designed to flummox authorities and veil the sinister intentions embedded in sometimes common vernacular.
Its a language that even befuddles most officers."
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"After a community mentor was gunned down, the suspects in the case made several calls while incarcerated.
Jansz was listening in.
When he heard one of the suspects talking about a football game his curiosity, and suspicion, was piqued.
Why would a guy from jail care about a football game? he asked himself.
He soon found out.
The individuals that were charged with this murder were ordering a hit on the witnesses, he explained. And it was in the analogy of a football game.
He said, When you are done winning the game, kick away the (football) but take out the laces.
Laces being a term for bullets, he explained. Football was a firearm, he added. And winning the game was to kill the individuals.
These words that seem very silly to most people actually have a very important meaning to these individuals that are involved in this type of crime.