Crever la pièce de dix sous is said of the practices of Sodomists; —— la paillasse, to kill.
Verger, il creva la paillasse
A Monseigneur l’Archevêque de Paris.
The above quotation is from a “complainte” on the murder of the Archbishop of Paris, Monseigneur Sibour, in the church Sainte-Geneviève, by a priest named Verger. A complainte is a kind of carol, or dirge, which has for a theme the account of a murder or execution. (Familiar) Crever l’œil au diable, to succeed in spite of envious people. Tu t’en ferais ——, expressive of ironical refusal. It may be translated by, “don’t you wish you may get it?” Se ——, to eat to excess, “to scorf.”
Crever à (printers’), to stop composing at such and such a line.
Crevette, f. (popular), prostitute, “mot.”
Criblage, criblement, m. (thieves’), outcry, uproar.
Cribler (thieves’), to cry out; —— à la grive, to give a warning call; to call out “shoe-leather!” to call out “police! thieves!“ “to give hot beef.”
On la crible à la grive,
Je m’ la donne et m’esquive,