COLOQUINTE, _f._ (popular and thieves’), _head_. Avoir une araignée dans la ----, _to be cracked_, or “to have a bee in one’s bonnet.” Charlot va jouer à la boule avec ta ----, _Jack Ketch will play skittles with your canister_.
COLTIGER (thieves’), _to arrest_; _to seize_, to “smug.”
C’est dans la rue du Mail Où j’ai été coltigé Par trois coquins de railles.
=V. HUGO=, _Le Dernier Jour d’un Condamné_.
COLTIN, _m._ (popular), _strength_. Properly _shoulder-strap_.
COLTINER (popular), _to ply the trade of a porter_; _to draw a hand-cart by means of a shoulder-strap_.
COLTINEUR, _m._ (popular), _man who draws a hand-cart with a shoulder-strap_.
COLTINEUSE (popular), _female who does rough work_.
COMBERGE, COMBERGEANTE, _f._ (thieves’), _confession_.
COMBERGER (thieves’), _to reckon up_; _to confess_.
COMBLANCE, _f._ (thieves’), par ----, _into the bargain_.
J’ai fait par comblance Gironde larguecapé.
COMBLE, COMBRE, COMBRIAU, COMBRIEU, _m._ (thieves’), _hat_, “tile.” See TUBARD.
COMBRIE, _f._ (thieves’), _one-franc piece_.
COMBROUSIER, _m._ (thieves’), _peasant_, or “clod.”
COMBUSTIBLE, _m._ (popular), du ----! _exclamation used to urge one on, On! go it!_
COME, _m._ (thieves’), _formerly a guard on board the galleys_.
COMÉDIE, _f._ (popular), envoyer à la ----, _to dismiss a workman for want of work to give him_. Etre à la ----, _to be out of work_, “out of collar.”
COMESTAUX, _m. pl._ (popular), for comestibles, _articles of food_, “toke.”
COMÈTE, _f._ (popular), _vagrant_, _tramp_. Filer la ----, or la sorgue, _to sleep in the open air_, or “to skipper it.”
COMIQUES, _m. pl._ (theatrical), jouer les ---- habillés, _to represent a comic character in modern costume_.
COMMANDER (thieves’), à cuire, _to send to the scaffold_.
COMMANDITE, _f._ (printers’), _association of workmen who join together for the performance of any work_.
COMME IF (popular), ironical for comme il faut, _genteel._ T’as rien l’air ----! _What a swell you look, oh crikey!_
COMMISSAIRE, _m._ (popular), _pint or pitcher of wine_. An allusion to the black robe which police magistrates wore formerly. Le cabot du ----, _the police magistrate’s secretary_. See CHIEN.
COMMODE, _f._ (thieves’), _chimney_. (Popular) Une ---- à deux ressorts, _a vehicle_, or “trap.”