BOULE-MICHE, _m._, abbreviation of _Boulevard Saint-Michel_.
BOULENDOS, _m._ (boule en dos), (popular), _humpback_, or “lord.”
BOULER (popular), _to thrash_, “to whop;” _to beat at a game, to deceive, to take in_. Envoyer ----, _to send to the deuce_ (old word bouler, _to roll along_).
BOULET, _m._ (popular), _bore_; ---- à côtes, à queue, _melon_; ---- jaune, _pumpkin_.
BOULETTE, _f._ (popular), de poivrot, _bunch of grapes_ (poivrot, slang term for _drunkard_).
BOULEUR, _m._, BOULEUSE, _f._ (theatrical), _actor or actress who takes the part of absentees in the performance_.
BOULEUX, _m._ (popular), _skittle player_.
BOULEVARDER, _to be a frequenter of the Boulevards_.
BOULEVARDIER, _m._, _one who frequents the Boulevards_; _journalist who is a frequenter of the Boulevard cafés_. Esprit ----, _kind of wit peculiar to the Boulevardiers_.
BOULEVARDIÈRE, _f._ (familiar), _prostitute of a better class who walks the Boulevards_.
Depuis cinq heures du soir la Boulevardière va du grand Hôtel à Brébant avec la régularité implacable d’un balancier de pendule.--=PAUL MAHALIN.=
BOULIN, _m._ (thieves’), _hole_. Caler des boulins aux lourdes, _to bore holes in the doors_.
BOULINE, _f._ (swindlers’), _collection of money_, “break,” or “lead.”
BOULINER (thieves’), _to bore holes in a wall or shutters_; _to steal by means of the above process_.
BOULINGUER (thieves’), _to tear_; _to conduct an affair_; _to manage_. Se ----, _to know how to conduct oneself_; _to behave_.
BOULOIRE, _f._ (popular), _bowling-green_.
BOULON, _m._ (thieves’), vol au ----, _theft by means of a rod and hook passed through a hole in the shutters_.
BOULONNAISE (popular), _girl of indifferent character who walks the Bois de Boulogne_.
BOULOTS, _m._ (popular), _round shaped beans_.
BOULOTTER (thieves’), _to assist a comrade_; (popular) _to be in good health_; _to be prosperous_; _to eat_, “to grub;” ---- de la galette, _to spend money_.
Et tout le monde se disperse, vivement, excepté les trois compères et le môme, qui rentrent d’un pas tranquille dans Paris, pour y fricoter l’argent des imbéciles, y boulotter la galette des sinves.--RICHEPIN, _Le Pavé_.
Eh! bien, ma vieille branche! comment va la place d’armes? Merci, ça boulotte. _Well, old cock, how are you? Thanks, I am all right_.