COGNARD, _m._, or COGNE, _gendarme and gendarmerie_; _police officer_, “copper.” COGNE, _m. and f._ (thieves’), la ----, _the police_. Un ----, _a police officer_, or “reeler.” See POT-À-TABAC. Also _brandy_. Un noir de trois ronds sans ----, _a three-halfpenny cup of coffee without brandy_. COIFFER (popular), _to slap_; _to deceive one’s husband_. Se ---- de quelqu’un, _to take a fancy to one_. COIN, _m._ (popular), c’est un ---- sans i, _he is a fool_. COIRE (thieves’), _farm_; _chief_. Je rencontrai des camarades qui avaient aussi fait leur temps ou cassé leur ficelle. Leur coire me proposa d’être des leurs, on faisait la grande soulasse sur le trimar.--=V. HUGO.= COL, _m._ (familiar), cassé, _dandy_, or “masher.” Se pousser du ----, _to assume an air of self-importance or conceit_, “to look gumptious;” _to praise oneself up_. An allusion to the motion of one’s hand under the chin when about to make an important statement. COLAS, COLABRE, or COLIN, _m._ (thieves’), _neck_, or “scrag.” Faire suer le ----, _to strangle_. Rafraîchir le ----, _to guillotine_. Rafraîchir means _to trim_ in the expression, “Rafraîchir les cheveux.” COLBACK, _m._ (military), _raw recruit_, or “Johnny raw.” An allusion to his unkempt hair, similar to a busby or bearskin cap. COLIN. See COLAS. COLLABO, _m._ (literary), abbreviation of collaborateur. COLLAGE, _m._ (familiar), _living as husband and wife in an unmarried state_. L’une après l’autre--en camarade-- C’est rupin, mais l’ collage, bon Dieu! Toujours la mêm’ chauffeus’ de pieu! M’en parlez pas! Ça m’rend malade. =GILL=, _La Muse à Bibi_. Un ---- d’argent, _the action of a woman who lives with a man as his wife from mercenary motives_. C’était selon la manie de ce corrupteur de mineures, le sceau avec lequel il cimentait ce que Madame Cornette appelait, en terme du métier, ses collages d’argent!--_Mémoires de Monsieur Claude._ COLLANT, _m._ (familiar), _is said of one not easily got rid of_; (military) _drawers_. COLLARDE, _m._ (thieves’), _prisoner_, _one_ “doing time.” COLLE, _f._ (students’), _weekly or other periodical oral examinations to prepare for a final examination, or to make up the marks which pass one at the end of the year_. COLLÈGE, _m._ (thieves’), _prison_, or “stir.” See MOTTE. Un ami de ----, _a prison chum_. Les collèges de Pantin, _the Paris prisons_. COLLÉGIEN, _m._ (thieves’), _prisoner_.