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_. BOUM! _a high-sounding, ringing word bawled out in a grave key by café waiters in order to emphasize their call for coffee to the attendant whose special duty it is to pour it out_. Versez à l’as! Boum! This peculiar call was brought into fashion by a waiter of the Café de la Rotonde at the Palais Royal, whose stentorian voice made the fortune of the establishment. BOUQUET, _m._ (cads’), _gift, present_. BOUQUINE, _f._, _beard grown on the chin_, or “goatee.” BOURBE, _f._ (popular), _the hospital of “la Maternité_.” BOURBON (popular), _nose_, “boko.” From nez à la Bourbon, the members of that dynasty being distinguished by prominent thick noses verging on the aquiline. BOURDON, _m._ (thieves’), _prostitute_, “bunter;” (printers’) _words left out by mistake in composing_. BOURDONNISTE, _m._ (printers’), _one in the habit of making_ bourdons (which see). BOURGEOIS, _m._ (thieves’), for bourg, _a large village_. Literally _man of the middle class_. The peasants give this appellation to the townspeople; a coachman to his “fare;” workmen and servants to their employer; workpeople to the master of a house; soldiers to civilians; artists and literary men use it contemptuously to denote a man with matter-of-fact, unartistic tastes, also a man outside their profession; the anarchists apply the epithet to one who does not share their views. (Popular) Mon ----, _my husband_, “my old man.” Eh! dites donc, ----, _I say, governor_. (Officers’) Se mettre en ----, _to dress in plain clothes, in_ “mufti.” (Familiar) C’est bien ----, _it is vulgar, devoid of taste_.