Discussion, f. (popular), avoir une —— avec le pavé, to fall flat, “to come a cropper.”
Disque, m. (popular), breech, or “tochas,” see [Vasistas]; also coin.
Distingué, m. (popular), glass of beer.
Dix-huit (popular), shoe made up of different parts of old ones. A play on the words “deux fois neuf,” twice new, or eighteen.
Dixième, m. (military), passer au —— régiment, to die. See [Pipe]. A play on the word “décimer,” to kill one in ten.
Doche, f. (thieves’), mother. Boîte à ——, coffin.
[Doigt], m. (familiar), se fourrer le —— dans l’œil, or le —— dans l’œil jusqu’au coude, to be grossly mistaken. Etre de la société du —— dans l’œil, to be one of those who form ambitious hopes not likely to be realized. Name given after the Commune of 1871 to a group of Communists in exile who had separated from the rest, and had divided among themselves all the future official posts of their future government—a case of selling chickens, &c., with a vengeance.
Domange (popular), marmite à ——, waggon which carries away the contents of cesspools. Marmiton de ——, scavenger employed at emptying the cesspools. Travailler pour M. ——, to eat. See [Mastiquer]. M. Domange is the name of a contractor who has, or had, charge of the cleaning of all Paris cesspools.
Dome, m. (thieves’), Saint ——, or saindomme, tobacco, or “fogus.”