C’est là où ... on voit défiler avec un frou-frou de soie, la haute et la basse bicherie en quête d’une proie, quærens quem devoret.--=FRÉBAULT=, _La Vie à Paris_. BICHON, _m._, _term of endearment_. Mon ----! _darling_. (Popular) Un ----, _a Sodomist_. BICHONNER COCO (soldiers’), _to groom one’s horse_. BICHONS, _m. pl._ (popular), _shoes with bows_. BICHOT, _m._ (thieves’), _bishop_. Probably from the English. BIDACHE, _f._ See BIDOCHE. BIDARD, _m._ (popular), _lucky_. BIDET, _m._ (convicts’), _string which is contrived so as to enable prisoners to send a letter, and receive the answer by the same means_. BIDOCHE, or BARBAQUE, _f._ (popular), _meat_, “bull;” (military) _piece of meat_. BIDON DE ZINC, _m._ (military), _blockhead_. Properly _a can_, _flask_. BIDONNER (popular), _to drink freely_, “to swig;” (sailors’) ---- à la cambuse, _to drink at the canteen_, “to splice the mainbrace.” BIE (Breton cant), _beer_; _water_. BIEN (popular), pansé, _intoxicated_, “screwed.” Mon ----, _my husband_, or “old man;” _my wife_, or “old woman.” Etre du dernier ---- avec, _to be on the most intimate terms with_. Etre ----, _to be tipsy_, “screwed.” Etre en train de ---- faire, _to be eating_. Un homme ----, une femme ----, _means a person of the middle class_; _well-dressed people_. BIENSÉANT, _m._ (popular), _the behind_, or “tochas.” See VASISTAS. BIER (thieves’), _to go_. Ils entrent dans le creux, doublent de la batouze, des limes, de l’artie et puis doucement happent le taillis et bient attendre ceux qui se portaient sur le grand trimar.--_Le Jargon de l’Argot._ BIÈRE, _f._ (popular), _domino box_. BIFFE, _f._ (popular), _rag-pickers’ trade_. BIFFER (popular), _to ply the rag-pickers’ trade_; _to eat greedily_, “to wolf.” BIFFETON, _m._ (thieves’), _letter_, “screeve,” or “stiff;” (popular) _counter-mark at theatres_. Donner sur le ----, _to read an indictment_; _to give information as to the prisoner’s character_. BIFFIN, or BIFIN, _m._ (popular), _rag-picker_, or “bone-grubber;” _a foot soldier_, or “wobbler,” his knapsack being assimilated to a rag-picker’s basket. BIFFRE, _m._ (popular), _food_, “grub.” Passer à ----, _to eat_. Passer à ---- à train express, _to bolt down one’s food_, “to guzzle.” BIFTECK, _m._ (popular), à maquart, _filthy_, “chatty” _individual_ (Maquart is the name of a knacker); ---- de chamareuse, _flat sausage_ (chamareuse, _a working girl_); ---- de grisette, _flat sausage_. Faire du ----, _to strike_, “to clump;” _to ride a hard trotting horse, which sometimes makes one’s breech raw_. BIFTECKIFÈRE, _adj._, _that which procures one’s living_, _one’s_ “bread and cheese.” BIFURQUÉ. At the colleges of the University students may, after the course of “troisième,” take up science and mathematics instead of continuing the classics. This is called bifurcation. BIGARD, _m._ (thieves’), _hole_. BIGARDÉ (thieves’), _pierced_.