COMBRIE, _f._ (thieves’), _one-franc piece_. COMBRIER, _m._ (thieves’), _hat-maker_. COMBRIEU. See COMBLE. COMBROUSIER, _m._ (thieves’), _peasant_, or “clod.” COMBUSTIBLE, _m._ (popular), du ----! _exclamation used to urge one on, On! go it!_ COME, _m._ (thieves’), _formerly a guard on board the galleys_. COMÉDIE, _f._ (popular), envoyer à la ----, _to dismiss a workman for want of work to give him_. Etre à la ----, _to be out of work_, “out of collar.” COMESTAUX, _m. pl._ (popular), for comestibles, _articles of food_, “toke.” COMÈTE, _f._ (popular), _vagrant_, _tramp_. Filer la ----, or la sorgue, _to sleep in the open air_, or “to skipper it.” COMIQUES, _m. pl._ (theatrical), jouer les ---- habillés, _to represent a comic character in modern costume_. COMMANDER (thieves’), à cuire, _to send to the scaffold_. COMMANDITE, _f._ (printers’), _association of workmen who join together for the performance of any work_. COMME IF (popular), ironical for comme il faut, _genteel._ T’as rien l’air ----! _What a swell you look, oh crikey!_ COMMISSAIRE, _m._ (popular), _pint or pitcher of wine_. An allusion to the black robe which police magistrates wore formerly. Le cabot du ----, _the police magistrate’s secretary_. See CHIEN. COMMODE, _f._ (thieves’), _chimney_. (Popular) Une ---- à deux ressorts, _a vehicle_, or “trap.” COMMUNARD or COMMUNEUX, _m._, _one of the insurgents of 1871_. COMMUNIQUÉ, _m._ (familiar), _official communication to newspapers_. COMP. See CAN. COMPAS, _m._ (popular), ouvrir le ----, _to walk_. Allonger le ----, _to walk briskly_. Fermer le ----, _to stop walking_. COMPLET, _adj._ (popular), être ----, _to be quite drunk_, or “slewed.” (Familiar) Etre ----, _to be perfectly ridiculous_. COMPRENDRE (thieves’), la ----, _to steal_, “to claim.” See GRINCHIR. COMPTE (popular), avoir son ----, _to be tipsy_, or “screwed;” _to die_, “to snuff it.” Son ---- est bon, _he is in for it_. COMPTER (musicians’), des payses, _to sleep_; (popular) ---- ses chemises, _to vomit_, “to cast up accounts.” COMTE, _m._ (thieves’), de caruche, or de canton, _jailor_, or “jigger dubber;” ---- de castu, _hospital superintendent_; ---- de gigot-fin, _one who likes to live well_. COMTOIS, _adj._ (thieves’), battre ----, _to dissemble_; _to play the fool_. CONASSE, or CONNASSE, _f._ (prostitutes’), _a stupid or modest woman_. Elles vantent leur savoir-faire, elles reprochent à leurs camarades leur impéritie, et leur donnent le nom de conasse, expression par laquelle elles désignent ordinairement une femme honnête.--=PARENT-DUCHATELET=, _De la Prostitution_. CONDÉ, _m._ (thieves’), _mayor_; demi ----, _alderman_; grand ----, _prefect_; ---- franc, _corrupt magistrate_. CONDICE, _f._ (thieves’), _cage in which convicts are confined on their passage to the convict settlements_.