Claqué, m. and adj. (popular), dead, dead man. La boîte aux claqués, the Morgue, or Paris dead-house. Le jardin des claqués, the cemetery.

Claquebosse, m. (popular), house of ill-fame, or “nanny-shop.”

Claquedents, m. (popular), house of ill-fame, “nanny-shop;” gaming-house, or “punting-shop;” low eating-house.

Claquefaim, m. (popular), starving man.

Claquepatins, m. (popular), miserable slipshod person.

Venez à moi, claquepatins,

Loqueteux, joueurs de musette,

Clampins, loupeurs, voyous, catins.

Richepin.

The early French poet Villon uses the word “cliquepatin” with the same signification.