CITRON, _m._ (theatrical), _squeaky note_; (thieves’ and cads’) _the head_, “nut,” or “chump.” Termed also “tronche, sorbonne, poire, cafetière, trognon, citrouille.” CITROUILLE, _f._, CITROUILLARD, _m._ (military), _dragoon_; (thieves’) _head_, “nut,” or “tibby.” CIVADE, _f._ (thieves’), _oats_. CIVARD, _m._ (popular), _pasture_. CIVE, _f._ (popular), _grass_. CLAIRS, _m. pl._ (thieves’), _eyes_, or “glaziers.” See MIRETTES. Souffler ses ----, _to sleep_, to “doss,” or to have a “dose of the balmy.” CLAIRTÉ, _f._ (popular), _light_; _beauty_. CLAMPINER (popular), _to idle about_; _to lounge about lazily_, “to mike.” CLAPOTER (popular), _to eat_, “to grub.” See MASTIQUER. CLAQUÉ, _m. and adj._ (popular), _dead_, _dead man_. La boîte aux claqués, _the Morgue, or Paris dead-house_. Le jardin des claqués, _the cemetery_. CLAQUEBOSSE, _m._ (popular), _house of ill-fame_, or “nanny-shop.” CLAQUEDENTS, _m._ (popular), _house of ill-fame_, “nanny-shop;” _gaming-house_, or “punting-shop;” _low eating-house_. CLAQUEFAIM, _m._ (popular), _starving man_. CLAQUEPATINS, _m._ (popular), _miserable slipshod person_. Venez à moi, claquepatins, Loqueteux, joueurs de musette, Clampins, loupeurs, voyous, catins. =RICHEPIN.= The early French poet Villon uses the word “cliquepatin” with the same signification. CLAQUER (familiar), _to die_, “to croak;” _to eat_; _to sell_; ---- ses meubles, _to sell one’s furniture_; ---- du bec, _to be very hungry without any means of satisfying one’s craving for food_. CLAQUES, _f. pl._ (familiar and popular), une figure à ----, _face with an impudent expression that invites punishment_. CLARINETTE, _f._ (military), de cinq pieds, _musket, formerly_ “Brown Bess.” CLASSE, _f._ (popular), un ---- dirigeant, _said ironically of one of the upper classes_. CLAVIN, _m._ (thieves’), _nail_; _grapes_. CLAVINE, _f._ (thieves’), _vine_. CLAVINER (thieves’), _to nail_; _to gather grapes_. CLAVINEUR, _m._ (thieves’), _vine-dresser_. CLAVINIER, _m._ (thieves’), _nail-maker_. CLEF, _f._ (familiar), à la ----. See A LA. Perdre sa ----, _to suffer from colic_, or “botts.” (Military) La ---- du champ de manœuvre, _imaginary object which recruits are requested by practical jokers to go and ask of the sergeant_. CLIABEAU, _m._, expression used by the prisoners of Saint-Lazare, _doctor_. CLICHE, _f._ (popular), _diarrhœa_, or “jerry-go-nimble.” CLICHÉ, _m._ (familiar), _commonplace sentence ready made_; _commonplace metaphor_; _well-worn platitude_. (Printers’) Tirer son ----, _to be always repeating the same thing_. CLIENT, _m._ (thieves’), _victim, or intended victim_. CLIGNER (military), des œillets, _to squint_, _to be_ “boss-eyed.” CLIGNOTS, _m. pl._ (popular), _eyes_, “peepers.” Baver des ----, _to weep_, “to nap a bib.” See MIRETTES. CLIPET, _m._ (thieves’), _voice_.