CULASSES, _f. pl._ (military), revue des ---- mobiles, _monthly medical inspection_. Culasse, properly _the breech of a gun_.
CULBUTANT, _m._, or CULBUTE, _f._ (thieves’), _breeches_, or “hams.” Termed also “fusil à deux coups, grimpants.” Esbigner le chopin dans sa culbute, _to conceal stolen property in one’s breeches_.
CULBUTE, _f._ (thieves’), _breeches_. (Popular) La ----, _the circus_.
CULERÉE, _f._ (printers’), _composing stick which is filled up_.
CULOTTE, _m._ (popular and familiar), _money losses at cards_; _excess in anything, especially in drink_. Grosse ----, _regular drunkard_. Donner dans la ---- rouge _is said of a woman who is too fond of soldiers’ attentions, of one who has an attack of_ “scarlet fever.” Se flanquer une ----, _to sustain a loss at a game of cards_; _to get intoxicated_. (Students’) Empoigner une ----, _to lose at a game, and to have in consequence to stand all round_. (Artists’) Faire ----, _exaggeration of_ FAIRE CHAUD (which see).
CULOTTÉ, _adj._ (popular), _hardened_; _soiled_; _seedy_; _red_, &c. Etre ----, _to have a seedy appearance_. Un nez ----, _a red nose_.
CULOTTER (popular), se ----, _to get tipsy_; _to have a worn-out, seedy appearance_. Se ---- de la tête aux pieds, _to get completely tipsy_.
CUMULARD, _m._ (familiar), _official who holds several posts at the same time_.
CUPIDON, _m._ (thieves’), _rag-picker_, or “bone-grubber.” An ironical allusion to his hook and basket.
CURE-DENTS (familiar), venir en ----, _to come to an evening party without having been invited to the dinner that precedes it_. Termed also “venir en pastilles de Vichy.”
CURETTE, _f._ (military), _cavalry sword_. Manier la ----, _to do sword exercise_.
CURIEUX, _m._ (thieves’), _magistrate_, “beak,” or “queer cuffin.” Also _juge d’instruction_, a magistrate who investigates cases before they are sent up for trial. Grand ----, _chief judge of the assize court_.
CYCLOPE, _m._ (popular), _behind_, or “blind cheek.”
CYLINDRE, _m._ (popular), _top hat_, or “stove-pipe;” see TUBARD; _body_, or “apple cart.” Tu t’en ferais péter le ----, _is expressive of ironical refusal_; “don’t you wish you may get it.”
CYMBALE, _f._ (thieves’), _moon_, or “parish lantern;” (popular) _escutcheon placed over the door of the house of a notary_.