CRUCIFIX, or CRUCIFIX À RESSORT, _m._ (thieves’), _pistol_, “barking iron.” CUBE, _m._, _student of the third year in higher mathematics_ (mathématiques spéciales); (familiar) _a regular idiot_. CUCURBITACÉ, _m._ (familiar), _a dunce_. CUEILLIR (popular), le persil _is said of a prostitute walking the streets_. CUILLER, _f._ (popular), _hand_, or “daddle.” CUIR, _m._ (popular), de brouette, _wood_. Escarpin en ---- de brouette, _wooden shoe_. Gants en ---- de poule, _ladies’ gloves made of fine skin_. Tanner le ----, _to thrash_, “to tan one’s hide.” CUIRASSÉ, _m._ (popular), _urinals_. CUIRASSER (popular), _to make_ “cuirs,” that is, in conversation carrying on the wrong letter, or one which does not form part of a word, to the next word, as, for instance, Donnez moi z’en, je vais t’y m’amuser. CUIRASSIER, _m._ (popular), _one who frequently indulges in_ “cuirs.” See CUIRASSER. CUIRE (popular), se faire ----, _to be arrested._ See PIPER. CUISINE, _f._ (thieves’), _the Préfecture de Police_; (literary) ---- de journal, _all that concerns the details and routine arrangement of the matter for a newspaper_. (Popular) Faire sa ---- à l’alcool, _to indulge often in brandy drinking_. CUISINER (literary), _to do, to concoct some inferior literary or artistic work_. CUISINIER, _m._ (thieves’), _spy_, or “nark;” _detective_; _barrister_; (literary) _newspaper secretary_. CUISSE, _f._ (familiar), avoir la ---- gaie _is said of a woman who is too fond of men_. CUIT, _adj._ (thieves’), _sentenced, condemned_, or “booked;” _done for_. CUITE, _f._ (popular), _intoxication_. Se flanquer une ----, _to get drunk_, or “screwed.” CUL, _m._ (popular), _stupid fellow_, or “duffer;” ---- d’âne, _blockhead_; ---- de plomb, _slow man_, or “bummer;” _clerk_, or “quill-driver;” _woman who awaits clients at a café_; ---- goudronné, _sailor_, or “tar;” ---- levé, _game of écarté at which two players are in league to swindle the third_; ---- rouge, _soldier with red pants_, or “cherry bum;” ---- terreux, _peasant, clodhopper_. Montrer son ----, _to become a bankrupt_, or “brosier.” CULASSES, _f. pl._ (military), revue des ---- mobiles, _monthly medical inspection_. Culasse, properly _the breech of a gun_. CULBUTANT, _m._, or CULBUTE, _f._ (thieves’), _breeches_, or “hams.” Termed also “fusil à deux coups, grimpants.” Esbigner le chopin dans sa culbute, _to conceal stolen property in one’s breeches_. CULBUTE, _f._ (thieves’), _breeches_. (Popular) La ----, _the circus_. CULERÉE, _f._ (printers’), _composing stick which is filled up_.