BIQUE, _f._ (popular), _old horse_; ---- et bouque, _hermaphrodite_ (equivalent to “chèvre et bouc”). BIRBADE, BIRBASSE, BIRBE, BIRBETTE, BIRBON, _m. and adj._ (thieves’ and popular), _old_; _old man_; _old woman_. BIRBASSIER. See BIBASSIER. BIRBE (popular), _old man_, _old_ “codger;” (thieves’) ---- dab, _grandfather_. BIRBETTE, _m._ (popular), _a very old man_. BIRIBI, _m._ (thieves’), _short crowbar used by housebreakers_, “James,” “the stick,” or “jemmy.” Termed also “pince monseigneur, rigolo, l’enfant, Jacques, sucre de pomme, dauphin.” BIRLIBI, _m._ (thieves’), _game played by swindling gamblers with walnut shells and dice_. BIRMINGHAM (familiar), rasoir de ---- (superlative of rasoir), _bore_. BISARD, _m._ (thieves’), _bellows_ (from bise, _wind_). BISCAYE (thieves’), _Bicêtre, a prison_. BISCAYEN (thieves’), _madman_, _one who is_ “balmy.” (Bicêtre has a dépôt for lunatics.) BISCHOFF, _m._ _drink prepared with white wine, lemon, and sugar_. BISCOPE, or VISCOPE, _f._ (cads’), _cap_. La viscope en arrière et la trombine au vent, L’œil marlou, il entra chez le zingue. =RICHEPIN=, _Gueux de Paris_. BISER (familiar), _to kiss_. BISMARCK, couleur ----, _brown colour_; ---- en colère, ---- malade, _are various shades of brown_. BISMARCKER (gamesters’), _to mark twice_; _to appropriate by fair or foul means_. It is to be presumed this is an allusion to Bismarck’s alleged summary ways of getting possession of divers territories. BISQUANT, _adj._ (popular), _provoking_, _annoying_. BISSARD, _m._ (popular), _brown bread_. BISTOURNÉ, _m._ (popular), _hunting horn_. BISTRO, BISTROT, _m._ (popular), _landlord of wine-shop_. BITTE ET BOSSE (sailors’), _carousing exclamation_. Laisse arriver! voiles largues, et remplissez les boujarons, vous autres! Tout à la noce! Bitte et bosse!--=RICHEPIN=, _La Glu_. BITTER CUIRASSÉ, _m._ (familiar), _mixture of bitters and curaçoa_. BITUME, _m._ _foot-pavement_. Demoiselle du ----, _street-walker_. Faire le ----, _to walk the street_. Fouler, or polir le ----, _to saunter on the boulevard_. BITUMER _is said of women who walk the streets_. BITURE, _f._ (familiar), _excessive indulgence in food or drink_, “scorf.” BITURER (popular), se ----, _to indulge in a_ “biture” (which see). BLACKBOULAGE, _m._ (familiar), _blackballing_. BLACKBOULER (familiar), _to blackball_. The expression has now a wider range, and is used specially in reference to unreturned candidates to Parliament. Un blackboulé du suffrage universel, _an unreturned candidate_. BLAFARD (cads’), _silver coin_. Il avait vu sauter une pièce de cent sous, Se cognant au trottoir dans un bruit de cymbales, Un écu flambant neuf, un blafard de cinq balles. =RICHEPIN=, _Chanson des Gueux_. BLAFARDE (cads’), _death_.