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[Scot] I. Rankin Falls 420: He happened to glance in his rearview and caught the cop car up his bahooky.
at bahakas, n.
[Scot] 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
[Scot] I. Rankin Falls 432: ‘Carswell’s blooper,’ Pryde said, ‘yet again.’.
at blooper, n.
[Scot] 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.
[Scot] 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.
[Scot] 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.
[Scot] I. Rankin Falls 432: He’s been getting his end away with the daughter.
at get one’s end away (v.) under end, n.
[Scot] I. Rankin Falls 28: It was just the local evening paper trying to pull a flanker.
at flanker, n.
[Scot] I. Rankin Falls 88: He smiled. ‘Then Anthony’s fucked, pardon my French.’.
at fucked, adj.1
[Scot] I. Rankin Falls 353: [It] gave me the heebies: suits of armour and dusty old billiard rooms.
at heebie-jeebies, n.
[Scot] I. Rankin Falls 104: Go on! Get right into that fat Hun bastard!
at Hun, n.
[Scot] I. Rankin Falls 314: The hacks who’re not in the loop, they’re keenest of all.
at loop, n.2
[Scot] I. Rankin Falls 10: Who’s left to mind the store?
at mind the store (v.) under mind, v.
[Scot] I. Rankin Falls 145: Rebus was getting his OJ topped up.
at o.j., n.
[Scot] 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.
[Scot] I. Rankin Falls 421: Well, stuff your miserable paper and stuff you.
at stuff, v.1
[Scot] 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
[Scot] 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
[Scot] I. Rankin Falls 315: And what’s your tipple of preference, DC Hood?
at tipple, n.
[Scot] 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.
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