CAB, _m._ (abbreviation of cabotin), _contemptuous expression applied to actors_; _third-rate actor_, or “surf.” CAB, CABOU (thieves’ and popular), _dog_, “tyke.” Le ---- jaspine, _the dog barks_. CABANDE, _f._ (popular), _candle_, or “glim.” Estourbir la ----, _to blow the candle out_. CABAS, _m._ (popular), _old hat_. Une mère ----, _rapacious old woman_. Properly, cabas, _a woman’s bag_. CABASSER (popular), _to chatter, to gabble; to delude_, or “bamboozle;” _to steal_, “to prig.” CABASSEUR, _m._ (popular), _scandal-monger_; _thief_, “prig.” See GRINCHE. CABE, _m._ (students’), _third year student at the Ecole Normale_, a higher training school for professors, and one which holds the first rank among Colleges of the University of France; (popular) _a dog_. See CABO. CABERMON, _m._ (thieves’), _wine-shop_, “lush-crib.” A corruption of cabaret. CABESTAN, _m._ (thieves’), _police inspector_; _police officer_, “crusher,” “pig,” “copper,” or “reeler.” CABILLOT, _m._ (sailors’), _soldier_, “lobster.” CÂBLE À RIMOUQUE, _m._ (fishermens’), _tow-line_. Souque! attrape à carguer! Pare à l’amarre! Et souque! C’est le coup des haleurs et du câble à rimouque. La oula ouli oula oula tchalez! Hardi! les haleurs, oh! les haleurs, halez! =RICHEPIN=, _La Mer_. CABO, _m._ (popular), _dog_, or “buffer.” Michel derives this from clabaud, _a worthless dog_, and L. Larchey from qui aboie, pronounced _qu’aboie_. Le ---- du commissaire, _the police magistrate’s secretary_. See CHIEN. (Military) Elève ----, _one who is getting qualified for the duties of a corporal_. CABOCHON, _m._ (popular), _blow_, “prop,” or “bang.” CABONTE, or CAMOUFLE, _f._ (military), _candle_. CABOT, _m._ (common), _third-rate actor_, or “surf;” _term of contempt applied to an actor_. Abbreviation of cabotin. Also a _dog_. CABOTINAGE, _m._ (familiar), _life of hardships which most actors have to live before they acquire any reputation_. CABOTINE (familiar), _bad actress_; _strolling actress, or one who belongs to a troupe of_ “barn stormers.” CABOTINER (familiar), _to be a strolling actor_; _to mix with_ cabotins; _to fall into their way of living_, which is not exactly a “proper” one. CABOULOT, _m._ (familiar), _small café where customers are waited upon by girls_; _small café where the spécialité is the retailing of cherry brandy, absinthe, and sweet liquors_; _best sort of wine-shop_. CABRIOLET, _m._, _short rope or strap with a double loop affixed, made fast to a criminals wrists, the extremity being held by a police officer_; _small box for labels_; _woman’s bonnet_. CABRION, _m._ (artists’), _painter without talent_, or “dauber;” _practical joker_. In the _Mystères de Paris_ of Eugène Sue, Cabrion, a painter, nearly drives the doorkeeper Pipelet mad by his practical jokes. CACHALOT, _m._ (sailors’), _old sailor, old_ “tar.” Properly _spermaceti whale_. CACHE-FOLIE, _m._ (popular), _drawers_; _false hair_.