DÉBINEUR, _m._, DÉBINEUSE, _f._ (popular), _one who talks ill of people_; _one who depreciates people or things_.
DÉBLAYER (theatrical), _to curtail portions of a part_; _to hurry through a performance_.
A l’Opéra, ce soir ... on déblaye à bras raccourci: vous savez que déblayer signifie écourter.--=P. MAHALIN.=
DÉBLOQUER (military), _to cancel an order of arrest_.
DÉBONDER (popular), _to ease oneself_; _to go to_ “West Central,” _or to the_ “crapping ken.” See MOUSCAILLER.
DÉBORDER (popular), _to vomit_, “to cast up accounts,” or “to shoot the cat.”
DÉBOUCLER (thieves’), _to open_; _to set a prisoner at liberty_.
DÉBOUCLEUR, _m._ (thieves’), de lourdes, _a housebreaker_, “buster,” or “screwsman.”
DÉBOULER (popular), _to be brought to childbed_, “to be in the straw;” _to arrive_, or “to crop up.”
DÉBOULONNÉ (popular), être ----, _to be dull-witted, or to be a_ “dead-alive.”
DÉBOULONNER (popular), la colonne à quelqu’un, _to thrash one soundly_, “to knock one into a cocked hat.” See VOIE.
DÉBOURRÉ (horse-dealers’), cheval ----, _horse which suddenly loses its fleshy appearance artificially imparted by rascally horse-dealers_.
DÉBOURRER (popular), _to educate one_, “to put one up to;” ---- sa pipe, _to ease oneself_, or “to go to the chapel of ease.” See MOUSCAILLER. Se ----, _to become knowing_, “up to a dodge or two,” or a “leary bloke.”
DÉBOUSCAILLER (popular), _to black one’s boots_.
DÉBRIDER (thieves’), _to open_; ---- les chasses, _to open one’s eyes_; (popular) ---- la margoulette, _to eat_, “to grub.” See MASTIQUER.
DÉBRIDOIR, _m._ (thieves’), _key_; _skeleton key_, “screw,” or “twirl.”
DÉBROUILLARD, _m._ (popular), _one who has a mind fertile in resource, in contrivances to get on in the world, or to extricate himself out of difficulties_, a “rum mizzler.” Also used as an adjective. Literally _one who gets out of the fog_.
DÉBROUILLER (theatrical), un rôle, _to make oneself thoroughly acquainted with the nature of one’s part before learning it, to realize fully the character one has to impersonate_.
DÉCALITRE, _m._ (popular), _top hat_, “stove-pipe.” See TUBARD.
DÉCAMPILLER (popular), _to decamp_, “to bunk.”
DÉCANAILLER (popular), se ----, _to rise from a state of abjection and poverty._