BOÎTE, _f._ (familiar and popular), _mean house, lodging-house, or restaurant_; _trading establishment managed in an unbusiness-like manner_; _one’s employer’s establishment_; _workshop_; _crammer’s establishment_; _disorderly household_; _carriage_, or “trap;” ---- à cornes, _hat or cap_; ---- à dominos, _coffin_, “cold meat box;” ---- à gaz, _stomach_; ---- à surprises, _the head of a learned man_; ---- à violon, _coffin_; ---- au sel, _head_, “tibby;” ---- aux cailloux, _prison_, “stone-jug;” ---- d’échantillons, _latrine tub_; (thieves’) ---- à Pandore, _box containing soft wax for taking imprints of keyholes_; (military) _guard-room_, “jigger;” ---- aux réflexions, _cells_. Boulotter de la ----, coucher à la ----, _to get frequently locked up_. Grosse ----, _prison_. (Printers) Boîte, _printer’s shop, and more particularly one of the inferior sort_. “C’est une boîte,” dit un vieux singe; “il y a toujours mèche, mais hasard! au bout de la quinzaine, banque blèche.” Faire sa ----, _to distribute into one’s case_. Pilleur de ----, or fricoteur, _one who takes on the sly type from fellow compositor’s case_. BOITER (popular), des calots, _to squint_, _to be_ “boss-eyed;” (thieves’) ---- des chasses, _to squint_, _to be_ “squinny-eyed.” BOLÉRO, _m._ (familiar), _a kind of lady’s hat, Spanish fashion_. BOLIVAR, _m._ (popular), _hat_, “tile.” BOMBE, _f._ (popular), _wine measure, about half a litre_; (military) ---- de vieux oint, _bladder of lard_. Gare la ----! _look out for squalls!_ BOMBÉ, _m._ (popular), _hunchback_, “lord.” BON, _man to be relied on in any circumstance_; _one who is_ “game;” _man wanted by the police_. Etre le ----, _to be arrested, or the right man_. Vous êtes ---- vous! _you amuse me! well, that’s good!_ (Printers’) Bon, _proof which bears the author’s intimation_, “bon à tirer,” _for press_. Avoir du ----, _to have some composition not entered in one’s account, and reserved for the next_. (Familiar) Bon jeune homme, _candid young man_, in other terms _greenhorn_; (popular) ---- pour cadet _is said of a dull paper, or of an unpleasant letter_; ---- sang de bon sang, _mild oath elicited by astonishment or indignation_. (Popular and familiar) Etre des bons, _to be all right, safe_. Nous arrivons à temps, nous sommes des bons. Le ---- endroit, _posteriors_. Donner un coup de pied juste au ---- endroit, _to kick one’s behind_, to “hoof one’s bum.” Arriver ---- premier, _to surpass all rivals_, “to beat hollow.” BONBON, _m._ (popular), _pimple_. BONBONNIÈRE, _f._ (popular), _latrine tub_; ---- à filous, _omnibus_. BONDE (thieves’), _central prison_. BON-DIEU (soldiers’), _sword_. (Popular) Il n’y a pas de ----, _that is_, il n’y a pas de ---- qui puisse empêcher cela. (Convicts’) _Short diary of fatigue parties at the hulks_. BONDIEUSARD, _m._ (familiar), _bigot_; _dealer in articles used for worship in churches_. BONDIEUSARDISME, _f._, _bigotry_.