DOMANGE (popular), marmite à ----, _waggon which carries away the contents of cesspools_. Marmiton de ----, _scavenger employed at emptying the cesspools_. Travailler pour M. ----, _to eat_. See MASTIQUER. M. Domange is the name of a contractor who has, or had, charge of the cleaning of all Paris cesspools.
DOME, _m._ (thieves’), Saint ----, or saindomme, _tobacco_, or “fogus.”
DOMINER (theatrical), _is said of an actor standing behind another who is nearer to the footlights_. It must be said, in explanation, that the stage-floor has an incline from the back to the front of the stage.
DOMINO-CULOTTE, _m._, _the last domino in a player’s hand_.
DOMINOS, _m. pl._ (thieves’), jeu de ----, _teeth_. Avoir le jeu complet de ----, _to possess one’s set of teeth complete_. Jouer des ----, _to eat_. See MASTIQUER.
Comme tu joues des dominos (des dents), à te voir, on croirait que tu morfiles (mords) dans de la crignole (viande).--=VIDOCQ.=
DONNE, _f._ (gambling cheats’), la ----, _the act of skilfully shuffling a pack so as to leave underneath certain cards which the cheat reserves for himself._
DONNER (thieves’), _to look_; _to see_, “to pipe;” _to peach_, or “to blow the gaff;” ---- à la Bourbonnaise, _to scowl at one_; ---- du chasse à la rousse, _to be on the look-out_, “to nark,” or “to nose;” ---- du flan, or de la galette, _to play fairly_; ---- sur le buffeton, _to read an indictment_; ---- un pont à faucher, _to lay a trap_; _to prepare a snare for one_; _to deceive one_, “to kid;” ---- une affaire, _to give the information required for the perpetration of a robbery_. (Popular) Donner de la salade, _to give one something more than a good shaking_, see VOIE; ---- du cambouis à quelqu’un, _to make fun of one_; _to play a trick_; ---- du dix-huit, see DONNER CINQ ET QUATRE; ---- du vague, _to seek for one’s living_; ---- la savate, _to give a box on the ear_, or “buck-horse;” ---- son bout, or son bout de ficelle, _to dismiss_; _to give the_ “sack;” (ironical) ---- des noms d’oiseaux, _to be very loving_; ---- cinq et quatre, _to slap one with the palm, then with the back of the hand_; ---- un coup de poing dont on ne voit que la fumée, _to give a terrific blow in the face_, “a thumper.” La ----, _to sing_, “to lip.” Se ---- de l’air, _to go out_. Se la ----, _to be off_; _to run away_, “to slope,” see PATATROT; also _to fight_, “to pitch into one another.” (Familiar) Donner la migraine à une tête de bois, _to be an insufferable bore_; ---- son dernier bon à tirer, _to die_; ---- de la grosse caisse, _to puff up a book or trade article_; ---- du balai, _to dismiss_; (Saint-Cyr cadets’) ---- du vent, _to bully_.