COLLER (students’), _to stop one’s leave_; _to orally examine at periodical examinations_. Se faire ----, _to get plucked or_ “ploughed” _at an examination_. (Popular) Coller, _to place_; _to put_; _to give_; _to throw_; ---- au bloc, _to imprison_, “to run in;” ---- des châtaignes, _to thrash_, “to wallop.” See VOIE. Se ---- dans le pieu, _to go to bed_. Se ---- une biture, _to get drunk_, or “screwed.” See SCULPTER. Colle-toi là, _place yourself there_. Colle-toi ça dans le fusil, _eat or drink that_. Colle-toi ça dans la coloquinte, _bear that in mind_. (Military) Coller au bloc, _to send to the guard-room_. Collez-moi ce clampin-là au bloc, _take that lazy bones to the guard-room_. (Familiar and popular) Se ----, _to live as man and wife, to live_ “a tally.” Se faire ----, _to be nonplussed_. S’en ---- par le bec, _to eat to excess_, “to scorf.” S’en ---- pour, _to go to the expense of_. Je m’en suis collé pour dix francs, _I spent ten francs over it_. COLLETINER (thieves’), _to collar_, _to apprehend_, “to smug.” See PIPER. COLLEUR, _m._ (students’), _professor whose functions are to orally examine at certain periods students at private or public establishments; man who gets quickly intimate_ or “thick” _with one, who_ “cottons on to one.” COLLIER, or COULANT, _m._ (thieves’), _cravat_, or “neckinger.” COLLIGNON, _m._ (popular), _cabby_. An allusion to a coachman of that name who murdered his fare. The cry, “Ohé, Collignon!” is about the worst insult one can offer a Paris coachman, and he is not slow to resent it. COLOMBE, _f._ (players’), _queen of cards_. COLOMBÉ, _adj._ (thieves’), _known_. COLON, _m._ (soldiers’), _colonel_. Petit ----, _lieutenant-colonel_. COLONNE, _f._ (military), chapeau en ----, see BATAILLE. (Popular) N’avoir pas chié la ----, _to be devoid of any talent_, _not to be able to set the Thames on fire_. Démolir la ----, _to void urine_, “to lag.” COLOQUINTE, _f._ (popular and thieves’), _head_. Avoir une araignée dans la ----, _to be cracked_, or “to have a bee in one’s bonnet.” Charlot va jouer à la boule avec ta ----, _Jack Ketch will play skittles with your canister_. COLTIGER (thieves’), _to arrest_; _to seize_, to “smug.” C’est dans la rue du Mail Où j’ai été coltigé Par trois coquins de railles. =V. HUGO=, _Le Dernier Jour d’un Condamné_. COLTIN, _m._ (popular), _strength_. Properly _shoulder-strap_. COLTINER (popular), _to ply the trade of a porter_; _to draw a hand-cart by means of a shoulder-strap_. COLTINEUR, _m._ (popular), _man who draws a hand-cart with a shoulder-strap_. COLTINEUSE (popular), _female who does rough work_. COMBERGE, COMBERGEANTE, _f._ (thieves’), _confession_. COMBERGER (thieves’), _to reckon up_; _to confess_. COMBERGO (thieves’), _confessional_. COMBLANCE, _f._ (thieves’), par ----, _into the bargain_. J’ai fait par comblance Gironde larguecapé. =VIDOCQ.= COMBLE, COMBRE, COMBRIAU, COMBRIEU, _m._ (thieves’), _hat_, “tile.” See TUBARD.