BINÔMES, _chums working together at the Ecole Polytechnique_. It is customary for students to pair off for work.
BINWIO (Breton), _male organs of generation_. Literally _tools_.
BIQUE, _f._ (popular), _old horse_; ---- et bouque, _hermaphrodite_ (equivalent to “chèvre et bouc”).
BIRBADE, BIRBASSE, BIRBE, BIRBETTE, BIRBON, _m. and adj._ (thieves’ and popular), _old_; _old man_; _old woman_.
BIRBE (popular), _old man_, _old_ “codger;” (thieves’) ---- dab, _grandfather_.
BIRBETTE, _m._ (popular), _a very old man_.
BIRIBI, _m._ (thieves’), _short crowbar used by housebreakers_, “James,” “the stick,” or “jemmy.” Termed also “pince monseigneur, rigolo, l’enfant, Jacques, sucre de pomme, dauphin.”
BIRLIBI, _m._ (thieves’), _game played by swindling gamblers with walnut shells and dice_.
BIRMINGHAM (familiar), rasoir de ---- (superlative of rasoir), _bore_.
BISARD, _m._ (thieves’), _bellows_ (from bise, _wind_).
BISCAYEN (thieves’), _madman_, _one who is_ “balmy.” (Bicêtre has a dépôt for lunatics.)
BISCHOFF, _m._ _drink prepared with white wine, lemon, and sugar_.
BISCOPE, or VISCOPE, _f._ (cads’), _cap_.
La viscope en arrière et la trombine au vent, L’œil marlou, il entra chez le zingue.
BISMARCK, couleur ----, _brown colour_; ---- en colère, ---- malade, _are various shades of brown_.
BISMARCKER (gamesters’), _to mark twice_; _to appropriate by fair or foul means_. It is to be presumed this is an allusion to Bismarck’s alleged summary ways of getting possession of divers territories.
BISQUANT, _adj._ (popular), _provoking_, _annoying_.
BISTOURNÉ, _m._ (popular), _hunting horn_.
BISTRO, BISTROT, _m._ (popular), _landlord of wine-shop_.
BITTE ET BOSSE (sailors’), _carousing exclamation_.
Laisse arriver! voiles largues, et remplissez les boujarons, vous autres! Tout à la noce! Bitte et bosse!--=RICHEPIN=, _La Glu_.
BITTER CUIRASSÉ, _m._ (familiar), _mixture of bitters and curaçoa_.
BITUME, _m._ _foot-pavement_. Demoiselle du ----, _street-walker_. Faire le ----, _to walk the street_. Fouler, or polir le ----, _to saunter on the boulevard_.
BITUMER _is said of women who walk the streets_.
BITURE, _f._ (familiar), _excessive indulgence in food or drink_, “scorf.”
BITURER (popular), se ----, _to indulge in a_ “biture” (which see).