Bistourné, m. (popular), hunting horn.
Bistro, bistrot, m. (popular), landlord of wine-shop.
Bitte et bosse (sailors’), carousing exclamation.
Laisse arriver! voiles largues, et remplissez les boujarons, vous autres! Tout à la noce! Bitte et bosse!—Richepin, La Glu.
Bitter cuirassé, m. (familiar), mixture of bitters and curaçoa.
Bitume, m. foot-pavement. Demoiselle du ——, street-walker. Faire le ——, to walk the street. Fouler, or polir le ——, to saunter on the boulevard.
Bitumer is said of women who walk the streets.
[Biture], f. (familiar), excessive indulgence in food or drink, “scorf.”
Biturer (popular), se ——, to indulge in a “[biture]” (which see).
Blackboulage, m. (familiar), blackballing.