DÉPORTER (popular), _to discharge from a situation_, “to give the sack.”
DÉPÔT, _m._ (popular), _dépôt de la Préfecture de Police_. Caisse des dépôts et consignations, _place of ease_, or “crapping ken.”
DÉPOTOIR, _m._ (thieves’), _confessional_; (popular) _chamber pot_, or “jerry;” _strong box_, or “peter;” _house of ill-fame_, or “nanny-shop.”
DÉPUCELEUR, _m._ (popular), de nourrices, or de femmes enceintes; _ridiculous Lovelace_.
DÉPUTÉ, _m._ (theatrical), _free ticket_.
DE QUOI (popular), _wealth_; _what next? what do you mean?_
DÉRAGER (popular), _to get pacified_. Generally used in the negative. Il n’a pas encore déragé, _he is yet in a rage_.
DÉRAILLÉ, _m._ (familiar), _one who has lost caste_.
DÉRAILLER (familiar), _to talk nonsense, cock-and-bull-story fashion_.
DÉRALINGUER (sailors’), _to die_. Properly _to detach from the bolt rope_. See PIPE.
DÉRONDINER (popular), _to pay_, “to shell out.” Se ----, _to spend or give away one’s money_. Ronds, _halfpence_.
DÉROULER (thieves’), se ----, _to spend a certain time, not specified, in prison_, “to do time.”
DERRIÈRE, _m._ (popular), roue de ----, _five-franc piece_. Se lever le ---- le premier, _to get up in a bad humour_. Used as a preposition: (Printers’) Derrière le poêle chez Cosson, _words used to evade replying to an inquiry_.
DÉSARGENTÉ, _adj._ (thieves’), _in want of money_.
Quand on est désargenté on se la brosse et l’on ne va pas se taper un souper à l’œil.--=VIDOCQ.=
DÉSARGOTÉ, _adj._ (thieves’), être ----, _to be shrewd_, _to be a_ “file,” to be “fly,” _or a_ “leary bloke.”
DÉSARGOTER (thieves’), _to employ cunning_.
DÉSARRER (thieves’), _to flee, to_ “guy.” or “to make beef.” See PATATROT.
DÉSATILLER (thieves’), _to castrate_. Horse-trainers term the operation “adding one to the list.”
D’ESBROUFFE, or D’ESBROUF (thieves’), _by force_. Pesciller ----, _to take by force_. Estourbir ----, _to knock over the head_.
Un grand messière franc ... Le filant sur l’estrade D’esbrouf je l’estourbis.
DESCENDRE (popular), quelqu’un, _to shoot one_, “to pot;” _to throw down_; ---- le crayon sur la colonne, _to thrash_, see VOIE; ---- la garde, _to die_, see PIPE. (Theatrical) Descendre, _to approach the footlights_. (Sporting) Un cheval qui descend, _horse against which the odds are decreasing_.