AFF, AFFE, _f._ (popular), eau d’----, _brandy_, or “French cream.” See TORD-BOYAUX. La v’là l’enflée, c’est de l’eau d’affe (eau-de-vie), elle est toute mouchique celle-là.--=VIDOCQ.= AFFAIRE, _f._ (thieves’), _projected crime_; _projected theft or swindle_, “plant;” ---- juteuse, _profitable transaction_; ---- mûre, _preconcerted crime or theft about to be committed_. (Familiar) Avoir son ----, _to have received a_ “settler;” _to be completely drunk_, or “hoodman;” _to have received a mortal wound_, in other words, “_to have one’s goose cooked_.” (Popular) Avoir une ---- cachée sous la peau, _to be pregnant_, or “lumpy.” Faire l’---- à quelqu’un, _to kill_, “to do for one.” AFFALER (popular), s’----, _to fall_, “to come a cropper.” T’es rien poivre, tu ne tiens plus sur tes fumerons.... tu vas t’affaler.--=RICHEPIN=, _Le Pavé_. AFFE. See AFF. AFFISTOLER (familiar), _to arrange_, _to dress_. Mal affistolé, _badly done_, _badly dressed_. AFFLUER (thieves’), _to deceive_, to “cram;” _to cheat_, to “stick;” _to swindle_, to “fox.” From à flouer. AFFOURCHER (sailors’), sur ses ancres, _to retire from the service_. Properly _to moor a ship each way_. AFFRANCHI (thieves’), _convict who has_ “done his time;” _one who has ceased to be honest_; _one who has been induced to be an accomplice in a crime_. AFFRANCHIR (gamesters’), _to save a certain card at the cost of another_; _to initiate one into the tactics of card-sharpers_; (thieves’) _to corrupt_; _to teach one dishonest practices_; ---- un sinve avec de l’auber, _to corrupt a man by dint of money_; ---- un sinve pour grinchir, _to put an honest man up to thieving_. AFFRES, _f. pl._ (popular), _upbraiding_, “blowing up.” Proper sense, _agonies_. AFFUR, AFFURE, _m._ (thieves), _proceeds_, _profits_. Avoir de l’----, _to have money_. Quand je vois mon affure Je suis toujours paré, Du plus grand cœur du monde Je vais à la profonde Pour vous donner du frais. =VIDOCQ.= AFFURAGE, _m._ (thieves’), _proceeds of theft_, “regulars,” or “swag.” AFFURER, AFFÛTER (thieves’), _to deceive_; _to make profits_; _to procure_; ---- de l’auber, _to make money_. En goupinant comme ça on n’affure pas d’auber.--=VIDOCQ.= AFFÛT (thieves’ and popular), être d’----, _to be able, cunning_, or “a downy cove;” _to be wide awake_, or “to be one who knows what’s o’clock.” A l’----, _on the watch_. AFFÛTER (thieves’), _to deceive_, _to snatch_, “to click;” _to whip up_, “to nip;” _to make unlawful profits_; ---- ses pincettes, _to walk_, to “pad the hoof;” _to run_, to “leg it.” Proper sense, _to sharpen_. S’---- le sifflet, _to drink_, to “whet one’s whistle.” AGACEUR (sporting), _one who sets a thing going_, “buttoner.” AGANTER (popular), _to take_, _to catch_, “to grab;” ---- une claque, _to receive a box on the ear_, “to get one’s ear’s wax warmed.” AGATE, _f._ (thieves’), _crockery_. AGATER (popular), _to be thrashed_, “tanned;” _to be caught_, “nabbed.”