Rouleur, m. (popular), swindler; rag-picker, or “tot-picker.” The Slang Dictionary says, “tot” is a bone, but chiffonniers and cinder-hunters generally are called “tot-pickers” nowadays. Totting has also its votaries on the banks of the Thames, where all kinds of flotsam and jetsam are known as “tots.” Un ——, a man whose functions are to act as a medium between workmen and masters who wish to engage them.
Rouleuse, f. (familiar), debauched woman.
Les rangs de l’armée du charlatan apostolique se sont grossis de nombre de petites rouleuses sans emploi.—Hector France.
Roulier, or rouletier, m. (thieves’), thief who steals property off vans, “dragsman.”
Les rouliers ou rouletiers s’attaquent aux camions des entrepreneurs de roulage.—Canler.
Roulis, m. (sailors’), avoir du ——, to be drunk, “to have one’s mainbrace well spliced.”
Roulon, m. (thieves’), loft, attic.
Roulotage, m. (thieves’), theft of property from vehicles, “heaving from a drag.”
Roulotin, m. (thieves’), driver of a van, “rattling-cove.”
Roulotte, f. (thieves’), vehicle.