CARAMBOLER (popular), _to come into collision with anything_; _to strike two persons at one blow_; _to thrash a person or several persons_. Also corresponds to the Latin _futuere_. The old poet Villon termed this “chevaulcher,” or “faire le bas mestier,” and Rabelais called it, “faire la bête à deux dos.” Properly “caramboler” signifies _to make a cannon at billiards_. CARANT, _m._ (thieves’), _board_; _square piece of wood_. A corruption of carré, _square_. CARANTE, _f._ (thieves’), _table_. CARAPATA, _m._ (popular), _pedestrian_; _bargee_; (cavalry) _recruit_, or “Johnny raw.” CARAPATER (popular), _to run_, “to brush.” Se ----, _to run away_, or “to slope.” Literally, courir à pattes. See PATATROT. CARAVANE, _f._ (popular), _travelling show_, or “slang.” Des caravanes, _love adventures_. Termed also “cavalcades.” CARBELUCHE, _m._ (thieves’), galicé, _silk hat_. CARCAGNO, or CARCAGNE, _m._ (thieves’), _usurer_. CARCAGNOTTER (thieves’), _to be a usurer_. CARCAN, _m._ (popular), _worthless horse_, or “screw;” _opprobrious epithet_; _gaunt woman_; ---- à crinoline, _street-walker_. See GADOUE. CARCASSE, _f._ (thieves’), états de ----, _loins_. Carcasse, in popular language, _body_, or “bacon.” Je vais te désosser la ----, _I’ll break every bone in your body_. CARCASSIER, _m._ (theatrical), _clever playwright_. CARDER (popular), _to claw one’s face_. Properly _to card_. CARDINALE, _f._ (thieves’), _moon_, or “parish lantern.” CARDINALES, _f. pl._ (popular), _menses_. CARDINALISER (familiar), se ---- la figure, _to blush, or to get flushed through drinking_. CARE, _f._ (thieves’), _place of concealment_. Vol à la ----, see CAREUR. CARÊME, _m._ (popular), amoureux de ----, _timid or platonic lover_. Literally _a Lenten lover_, one who is afraid of touching flesh. CARER (thieves’), _to conceal, to steal_. See CAREUR. Se ----, _to seek shelter_. CAREUR, or VOLEUR À LA CARE, _m._ (thieves’), _thief who robs a money-changer under pretence of offering old coins for sale_, “pincher.” CARFOUILLER (popular), _to thrust deeply_. Il délibéra ... pour savoir s’il lui carfouillerait le cœur avec son épée ou s’il se bornerait à lui crever les yeux.--_Figaro._ CARGE (thieves’), _pack_. CARGOT, _m._ (military), _canteen man_. CARGUER (sailors’), ses voiles, _to retire from the service_. Properly _to reef sails_. CARIBENER, or CARER, _to steal_ “à la care.” See CAREUR. CARISTADE, _f._ (printers’), _relief in money_; _charity_. CARLE, _m._ (thieves’), _money_, “lour,” or “pieces.” CARLINE, _f._ (thieves’), _death_. CARME, _m._ (popular), _large flat loaf_; (thieves’) _money_, “pieces.” See QUIBUS. On lui a grinchi tout le ---- de son morlingue, _the contents of his purse have been stolen_. Carme à l’estorgue, or à l’estoque, _base coin_, or “sheen.” CARMER (thieves’), _to pay_, “to dub.” CARNAVAL, _m._ (popular), _ridiculously dressed person_, “guy.”