Recorder (thieves’), to warn one of some impending danger; to kill one, “to quash, to hush.” Se ——, to plot, to concert together.
Recourir à l’émétique (thieves’), to get forged bills discounted.
Recuit, adj. (popular), ruined again.
Récurer (popular), la casserole, or se ——, to take a purgative. Se faire ——, to be under treatment for syphilis.
Redam, m. (thieves’), pardon. From rédemption.
Redin, m. (thieves’), purse, “skin.” The word has the same signification in the Italian jargon, and comes from retino, small net. Hence reticule, a lady’s bag, corrupted into ridicule.
Redoublement, m. (thieves’), de fièvre, fresh charge brought against a prisoner who is being tried for an offence; —— de fièvre cérébrale, fresh charge against a prisoner who is being tried for murder.
Pour peu que des parrains ne viennent pas leur coquer un redoublement de fièvre cérébrale, ma largue et mes gosselines se tireront de ce mauvais pas.—Vidocq.
Redouiller (popular), to push back; to repel; to ill-treat, “to manhandle.”
Redresse, f. (thieves’), être à la ——, to be cunning, knowing, “downy.”