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[Scot] I. Rankin Set in Darkness 396: Your bottle’s gone. I can see you shaking from here.
at bottle (and glass), n.
[Scot] I. Rankin Set in Darkness 353: She was dressed to the tens: tight red leather trousers tucked into knee-high black boots.
at dressed (up) to the nines, phr.
[Scot] I. Rankin Set in Darkness 396: It wasn’t enough to grass me to the pigs.
at grass, v.2
[Scot] I. Rankin Set in Darkness 172: The street people knew her now, called her ‘doll’ and ‘hen’.
at hen, n.
[Scot] I. Rankin Set in Darkness 353: Never drunk one? Perfect pick-me-up.
at pick-me-up, n.
[Scot] I. Rankin Set in Darkness 151: Nothing wrong with the napper.
at napper, n.2
[Scot] I. Rankin Set in Darkness 337: I’m just thinking this may be the best chance I ever get to take a pop at you.
at take a pop (at) (v.) under pop, n.1
[Scot] I. Rankin Set in Darkness 406: He was in his first pub [...] Two ancient regulars watched morning television and smoked diligently.
at regular, n.
[Scot] I. Rankin Set in Darkness 388: He thought of the Leith pub in Trainspotting, the American tourist asking for the toilet, the schemies following him in.
at schemie, n.
[Scot] I. Rankin Set in Darkness 305: As soon as a bloke claps eyes on a woman, first thing he wonders is what she’d be like in the scratcher.
at scratcher, n.
[Scot] I. Rankin Set in Darkness 94: ‘I really can’t be scunnered,’ he’d say when she’d finished and she’d start hitting him with a cushion.
at scunner, v.
[Scot] I. Rankin Set in Darkness 373: Rebus looked to his boss. ‘Sir, it’s my shout. Any chance you can join us?’.
at shout, n.
[Scot] I. Rankin Set in Darkness 246: Well, maybe just a smidge.
at smidge, n.
[Scot] I. Rankin Set in Darkness 262: A sparky positioning a ladder under some ceiling cables.
at sparks, n.2
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