2001 I. Rankin Falls 420: He happened to glance in his rearview and caught the cop car up his bahooky.at bahakas, n.
2001 I. Rankin Falls 9: Never really understood the phrase ‘biscuit-ersed’ before, but that’s what those lot were: biscuit-ersed to a man!at biscuit-arsed (adj.) under biscuit, n.1
2001 I. Rankin Falls 10: George ‘Hi-Ho’ Silvers was finding out that DC Phyllida Hawes and DS Ellen Wylie weren’t about to fall for his chat-up line.at chat-up, n.
2001 I. Rankin Falls 378: With experience you’d know how to bend a journalist’s will to your own, even if if meant a bribe of some kind: first dibs on some later story.at first dibs (n.) under dib, n.
2001 I. Rankin Falls 262: It turned out to be a ‘domestic’, that handy euphemism when victims were killed by their loved ones.at domestic, n.
2001 I. Rankin Falls 432: He’s been getting his end away with the daughter.at get one’s end away (v.) under end, n.
2001 I. Rankin Falls 353: [It] gave me the heebies: suits of armour and dusty old billiard rooms.at heebie-jeebies, n.
2001 I. Rankin Falls 420: ‘Bollocks!’ he’d yelled from his window, giving each sheep-shagger and country bumpkin the finger.at sheep-shagger (n.) under sheep, n.
2001 I. Rankin Falls 120: ‘They’re a bunch of tampons,’ his pal said [...] She smiled. ‘What did he mean about tampons?’ Rebus turned the ignition and glanced at her. ‘He meant they’re all stuck-up.’.at tampon, n.1
2001 I. Rankin Falls 314: You might let drop a hint or a teaser, just to show them you’re in the know.at teaser, n.4
2001 I. Rankin Falls 420: You might get a shag, but two-to-one you wake up with your old wotsit sliced off and lying beside you.at whatsits, n.