COUPER LA CHIQUE, _to disappoint_; _to abash_; ---- la gueule à quinze pas, _to stink_; ---- la musette, or le sifflet, _to cut the throat_; ---- le trottoir, _to place one in the necessity of leaving the pavement by walking as if there were no one in the way, or when walking behind a person to get suddenly in front of him_; (military) ---- l’alfa, or la verte, _to drink absinthe_. Ne pas y ----, _not to escape_; _not to avoid_; _to disbelieve_. Vous n’y couperez pas, _you will not escape punishment_. Je n’y coupe pas, _I don’t take that in_. (Coachmens’) Couper sa mèche, _to die_. See PIPE. (Gambling cheats’) Couper dans le pont, _to cut a pack of cards prepared in such a manner as to turn up the card required by sharpers_. The cards are bent in a peculiar way, and in such a manner that the hand of the player who cuts must naturally follow the bend, and separate the pack at the desired point. This cheating trick is used in England as well as France, and is termed in English slang the “bridge.” COUPE-SIFFLET, _m._ (thieves’), _knife_, “chive.” Termed also “lingre, vingt-deux, surin.” COURANT, _m._ (thieves’), _dodge_. Connaître le ----, _to be up to a dodge_. COURASSON, _m._ (familiar), _one whose bump of amativeness is well developed_, in other terms, _one too fond of the fair sex_. Vieux ----, _old debauchee, old_ “rip.” COURBE, _f._ (thieves’), _shoulder_; ---- de marne, _shoulder of mutton_. Les marquises des cagous ont soin d’allumer le riffe et faire riffoder la criolle; les uns fichent une courbe de morne, d’autres un morceau de cornant, d’autres une échine de baccon, les autres des ornies et des ornichons.--_Le Jargon de l’Argot._ COUREUR, _m._ (thieves’), d’aveugles, _a wretch who robs blind men of the half-pence given them by charitable people_. COURIR (popular), quelqu’un, _to bore one_. Se la ----, _to run_, _to run away_, “to slope.” For synonyms see PATATROT. COURRIER, _m._ (thieves’), de la préfecture, _prison van_, or “black Maria.” COURT-À-PATTES, _m._ (military), _foot artilleryman_. COURTAUD, _m._ (thieves’), _shopman_, or “counter jumper.” COURT-BOUILLON, _m._ (thieves’), le grand ----, _the sea_, “briny,” or “herring pond.” Termed by English sailors “Davy’s locker.” Court-bouillon properly is _water with different kinds of herbs in which fish is boiled_. COURTIER, _m._ (thieves’), à la mode. See BANDE NOIRE. (Familiar) Courtier marron, _kind of unofficial stockjobber_, _an outsider_, or “kerbstone broker.” COUSIN, _m._ (thieves’), _cardsharper_, or “broadsman;” ---- de Moïse, _husband of a dissolute woman_. COUSINE, _f._ (popular), _Sodomist_; ---- de vendange, _dissolute girl fond of the wine-shop_. COUSSE, _f._ (thieves’), de castu, _hospital attendant_. COUTEAU, _m._ (military), grand ----, _cavalry sword_. COÛTER (popular), cela coûte une peur et une envie de courir, _nothing_. COUTURASSE, _f._ (popular), _sempstress_; _pock-marked or_ “cribbage-faced” _woman_.