2006 J. Ridley What Fire Cannot Burn 180: Her best bet was to cop a plea, cooperate with the investigators and inform on any other metanormals she was aware of.at cop a plea, v.
2006 J. Ridley What Fire Cannot Burn 82: She sure as shit missed Soledad’s O’Dwyer.at sure as shit under sure as..., phr.
2006 J. Ridley What Fire Cannot Burn 185: The more he stood, the more ball-less he looked.at ball-less (adj.) under balls, n.
2006 J. Ridley What Fire Cannot Burn 358: People want action [...] guns coughing, muzzles flashing [...] Balls-to-the-walls action.at balls to the wall(s) under balls, n.
2006 J. Ridley What Fire Cannot Burn 260: She swore at Tashjian for being ballsy enough to call her bluff.at ballsy (adj.) under balls, n.
2006 J. Ridley What Fire Cannot Burn 156: Hard drinkers – and the few flies in the bar at that hour were nothing but – stared at Tashjian.at bar-fly, n.
2006 J. Ridley What Fire Cannot Burn 179: An MTac unit rolling on her house [...] A police bird overhead.at bird, n.1
2006 J. Ridley What Fire Cannot Burn 81: She wasn’t going bitch, but Eddi couldn’t put enough cover between herself and this freak.at go bitch (v.) under bitch, n.1
2006 J. Ridley What Fire Cannot Burn 88: She didn’t care about skydiving one time before she bit it.at bite it (v.) under bite, v.
2006 J. Ridley What Fire Cannot Burn 161: Some probably considered Soledad was [...] Admin or IA. That made every other cop in the joint instantly [...] reassess their relationship with the blue who was having a sit-down.at blue, n.1
2006 J. Ridley What Fire Cannot Burn 289: ‘You look butch, Eddi.’ ‘Excuse me?’ ‘Not dyke, butch. Tough.’.at butch, adj.
2006 J. Ridley What Fire Cannot Burn 249: She cared a hell of a lot about you. If you felt any of the same for her, you’d clean up.at clean up, v.
2006 J. Ridley What Fire Cannot Burn 163: The mutie must’ve been the one that got clipped by the train.at clip, v.1
2006 J. Ridley What Fire Cannot Burn 34: Call it a sense of humor sharp as a brand-new knife. He could’ve been a put-down artist.at put-down artist (n.) under put-down, n.
2006 J. Ridley What Fire Cannot Burn 275: If a guy’s got a gun, if the guy points the gun at you, you drop him.at drop, v.3
2006 J. Ridley What Fire Cannot Burn 250: Cops eating bullets as a substitute for doing any time at all.at eat one’s gun (v.) under eat, v.
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2006 J. Ridley What Fire Cannot Burn 214: It would have been hi-F’n-larious [...] grown men, boozers all probably, drinking their girlie drinks.at F, n.1
2006 J. Ridley What Fire Cannot Burn 235: She was not touchy-feely. She wasn’t a people person.at touchie-feelie, adj.
2006 J. Ridley What Fire Cannot Burn 186: Raddatz [...] took over again before Soledad could hand out any more freebies.at freebie, n.
2006 J. Ridley What Fire Cannot Burn 367: The stench was a sock in the face [...] a funk so rank it actually hurt.at funk, n.1
2006 J. Ridley What Fire Cannot Burn 35: It was walking without the gimp, the gimp that advertised [...] there was something wrong with him.at gimp, n.2
2006 J. Ridley What Fire Cannot Burn 156: It was the girliest drink Soledad’d ever seen. A queer alky mick going dry on St. Paddy’s Day wouldnt touch the stuff.at girlie, adj.
2006 J. Ridley What Fire Cannot Burn 114: His property value was going to take a hit having a Mexican living next door.at take a hit (v.) under hit, n.
2006 J. Ridley What Fire Cannot Burn 221: Crawl up union towards him [...] Keep your mike hot.at hot, adj.