Carottage, m. (popular), chouse.
[Carotte], f. (military), medical inspection; —— d’épaisseur, great chouse. (Familiar) Tirer une —— de longueur, to concoct a far-fetched story for the purpose of obtaining something from one, as money, leave of absence, &c. (Theatrical) Avoir une —— dans le plomb, to sing out of tune, or with a cracked voice; (popular) to have an offensive breath. Avoir ses carottes cuites, to be dead. (Thieves’) Tirer la ——, to elicit secrets from one, “to pump” one.
Il s’agit de te faire arrêter pour être conduit au dépôt où tu tireras la carotte à un grinche que nous allons emballer ce soir.—Vidocq.
Carotter (familiar), l’existence, to live a wretched, poverty-stricken life; —— à la Bourse, to speculate in a small way at the Stock Exchange; (military) —— le service, to shirk one’s military duties.
Caroublage, m. (thieves’), picking of a lock.
Carouble, f. (thieves’), skeleton key, “betty,” or “twirl.”
Caroubleur, m. (thieves’), thief who uses a picklock, or “screwsman;” —— à la flan, thief of this description who operates at haphazard; —— au fric-frac, housebreaker, “panny-man,” “buster,” or “cracksman.”
Carquois, m. (popular), d’osier, rag-picker’s basket.
Carre, f. (thieves’), du paquelin, the Banque de France. Mettre à la ——, to conceal.
Carré, m. (students’), second-year student in higher mathematics; (thieves’) room, or lodgings, “diggings;” —— des petites gerbes, police court; —— du rebectage, court of cassation, a tribunal which revises cases already tried, and which has power to quash a judgment.