DÉCHANTER (popular), _to recover from an error_; _to be crestfallen after one’s illusions have been dispelled_; _to come down a peg or two_.
DÉCHARD, _m._ (popular), _needy_; _man who is_ “hard up.”
DÈCHE, _f._ (popular), _neediness_. Etre en ----, _to be_ “hard up” _for cash_; “to be at low tide.”
DÉCHEUX, _m._ (popular), _needy man_, “quisby.”
DÉCHIRÉE, _f._ (popular), elle n’est pas trop ----, _is said of a woman who is yet attractive in spite of years_.
DÉCHIRER (military), de la toile, _to perform platoon firing_; ---- la cartouche, _to eat_. See MASTIQUER. (Popular) Déchirer son faux-col, son habit, son tablier, _to die_. (Ironical) Ne pas se ----, _to have a good opinion of oneself and to show it_.
DÉCLAQUER (popular), _to open one’s heart_; _to make a clean breast of_.
DÉCLOUER (popular), _to redeem objects from pawn_, _to get objects_ “out of lug.”
DÉCOGNOIR, _m._ (popular), _nose_, “boko,” or “smeller.” See MORVIAU.
DÉCOLLER (popular), _to leave a place_; _to leave one’s employment_; ---- son billard, _to die_. See PIPE. Se ----, _to fail_; _to grow old, rickety_; _to die_, “to kick the bucket.”
DÉCOMPTE, _m._ (military), _mortal wound_. Recevoir son ----, _to die_; see PIPE; “to lose the number of one’s mess.”
DÉCORS, _m. pl._ (freemasons’), _ornaments_, _insignia_.
DÉCOUCHEUR (military), _soldier who is in the habit of stopping away without leave_.
DÉCOUDRE (familiar), en ----, _to fight either in a duel or with the natural weapons_.
DÉCOUVRIR (popular), la peau de quelqu’un, _to make one say things which he would rather have left unsaid_; “to pump one;” “to worm” _secrets out of one_.
DÉCRAMPONNER (familiar), se ----, _to get rid of a troublesome person_.
Pourquoi ai-je quitté Paris? Pour me décramponner tout à fait de cet imbécile qui, panné, décavé, commençait à me porter la guigne.--=RICHEPIN=, _La Glu_.
DÉCRASSER (popular), quelqu’un, _to corrupt one_, “to put one up to snuff;” (prostitutes’) ---- un homme, _to clean a man out of his money_, and in thieves’ language, _to rob a man_. See GRINCHIR.
DÉCRAVATER (popular), ses propos, _to use language of an objectionable character_, or “blue talk.”
DÉCROCHER (popular), _to take articles out of pawn_, or “out of lug;” (military) _to shoot down_; (thieves’) _to steal handkerchiefs_, “to haul stooks;” (popular) ---- un enfant, _to bring about a miscarriage_; (familiar) ---- la timballe, _to be fortunate_, or, as the Americans term it, “to get the cake,” or “to yank the bun.” An allusion to the practice of hanging a silver cup as a prize at the top of a greasy pole.
