COLLANT, _m._ (familiar), _is said of one not easily got rid of_; (military) _drawers_.
COLLARDE, _m._ (thieves’), _prisoner_, _one_ “doing time.”
COLLE, _f._ (students’), _weekly or other periodical oral examinations to prepare for a final examination, or to make up the marks which pass one at the end of the year_.
COLLÈGE, _m._ (thieves’), _prison_, or “stir.” See MOTTE. Un ami de ----, _a prison chum_. Les collèges de Pantin, _the Paris prisons_.
COLLER (students’), _to stop one’s leave_; _to orally examine at periodical examinations_. Se faire ----, _to get plucked or_ “ploughed” _at an examination_. (Popular) Coller, _to place_; _to put_; _to give_; _to throw_; ---- au bloc, _to imprison_, “to run in;” ---- des châtaignes, _to thrash_, “to wallop.” See VOIE. Se ---- dans le pieu, _to go to bed_. Se ---- une biture, _to get drunk_, or “screwed.” See SCULPTER. Colle-toi là, _place yourself there_. Colle-toi ça dans le fusil, _eat or drink that_. Colle-toi ça dans la coloquinte, _bear that in mind_. (Military) Coller au bloc, _to send to the guard-room_. Collez-moi ce clampin-là au bloc, _take that lazy bones to the guard-room_. (Familiar and popular) Se ----, _to live as man and wife, to live_ “a tally.” Se faire ----, _to be nonplussed_. S’en ---- par le bec, _to eat to excess_, “to scorf.” S’en ---- pour, _to go to the expense of_. Je m’en suis collé pour dix francs, _I spent ten francs over it_.
COLLETINER (thieves’), _to collar_, _to apprehend_, “to smug.” See PIPER.
COLLEUR, _m._ (students’), _professor whose functions are to orally examine at certain periods students at private or public establishments; man who gets quickly intimate_ or “thick” _with one, who_ “cottons on to one.”
COLLIER, or COULANT, _m._ (thieves’), _cravat_, or “neckinger.”
COLLIGNON, _m._ (popular), _cabby_. An allusion to a coachman of that name who murdered his fare. The cry, “Ohé, Collignon!” is about the worst insult one can offer a Paris coachman, and he is not slow to resent it.
COLOMBE, _f._ (players’), _queen of cards_.
COLON, _m._ (soldiers’), _colonel_. Petit ----, _lieutenant-colonel_.
COLONNE, _f._ (military), chapeau en ----, see BATAILLE. (Popular) N’avoir pas chié la ----, _to be devoid of any talent_, _not to be able to set the Thames on fire_. Démolir la ----, _to void urine_, “to lag.”