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SNY

Special Needs Yard. California prison yards for inmates deemed no good because of bad paperwork, funny charges, dropping out, snitching, etc. Certain prisons in California are all-SNY (e.g., Mule Creek).
Ex. 1

"The sick part about it is that guy is probably a heavy duty popular guy on the SNY yard...And people wonder why people like me and you can't see ourselves going to some freakin' SNY yard. How can you program with those people? How can you not kill them?"

J.D. Rutherford, Prison Break Raw, May 31, 2020

Ex. 2

Lazy: Hey homey! Savag3 just rang the bell! It went 'DING'! He's just won a one-way trip to SNY!

Creeper: I knew that guy had some funny paperwork!

Lazy: Yeah. He got busted committing lewd acts on surveillance camera at a Walmart in Yucca Valley! You shoulda seen the look on the llavero's face when he read that shit! They threw his ass off the tier 'American Me' style.

Creeper: He'll be an SNY celebrity among all them diaper snipers, necrophiliacs, and rats!
by ZXY&ABC July 14, 2020
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BOPin'

Bouncin' Out Popin'. North Richmond, California slang for arriving on scene in a vehicle, getting out, and, without hesitation, emptying the clip at your target.
Slim: Yo Will-Bop! Lil' Sweets wants to holla at you! You know what time it is!

Will Bop: Don't trip homey! I've been Project Trojans from Day 1! I'll be BOPin' on that fool!
by ZXY&ABC August 8, 2019
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Hand Thangs

Ex. 1

"South side Richmond, yea I’m from the 30s, 100s on the K, hand thangs with the 30s."

Laz Tha Boy, South Side Richmond

Ex. 2

Sanjay: My Desi homey, you got them hand thangs?

Deepak: It's all good. We got more firepower than the average NATO army.

Sanjay: Excellent. Cuz we gonna hit a lick on them suckas that pulled the 211 on our convenience store.
by ZXY&ABC December 14, 2021
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Gilas

Ex. 1:

In May 2013, Corporal Lamonte Toney encountered defendant and noted defendant’s tattoos: “East Side Gilroy” on his back, “Gilas” and “408” on his forearm, a “four dots” tattoo near his left hand, and a “one dot” tattoo near his right hand. (P. v. Ruiz, Sixth Appellate Court, Oct. 30, 2019)

Ex. 2:

Chuco: Odelay vato! I need to get at the homey Shakes the Clown! That fool owes me some moonstuff!

Pelon: You'll need a gas mask bro! That fools from Gilas and always has that nasty ass garlic breath!
by ZXY&ABC November 1, 2019
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Project Trojans

A North Richmond, California street gang that originally began as a neighborhood baseball team in the 1980s. At its peak, Project Trojans had an estimated 300 members and controlled the cocaine, heroin, and meth trade in North Richmond. After a significant increase in violent crime in the 2000s, the feds cracked down, resulting in the formation of new gangs with different names (e.g., Swerve Team).
"The Project Trojans have controlled much of the drug trafficking within North Richmond for decades and have been the source -- directly or indirectly -- for much of the violence plaguing the community." San Francisco Chronicle, March 14, 2006
by ZXY&ABC July 25, 2019
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Dirty Waters

The Suisun Bay / Delta communities of Pittsburg, Antioch, and Bethel Island
Blase (rapping=): "FAIM till I die. Famous for Coochie. Contra Costa County from the Bay to Dirty Waters. Rodeo California right across from 40 water"
by ZXY&ABC June 22, 2019
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Street Midget

"The muthafucka was a little guy -- a midget -- so he knew how to talk shit. Havin' been in the streets, he was a Street Midget. He wasn't no Square Midget. He was a Street Midget. He knew some Midget Shit."

Big Herc, "What happens when Midgets Go To Prison?" December 22, 2017
by ZXY&ABC August 14, 2023
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