Pipet, m. (thieves’), castle, mansion, “chat, or hangings-out.” See [Piget].
Il arriva que je trimardais juste la lourde de ce pipet ... une cambrouze du pipet me mouchaillait et en avertit le rupin.—Le Jargon de l’Argot. (It happened that I was just going by the door of that mansion ... a servant girl of the mansion perceived me and warned the master.)
[Pipo], or pipot, m., the Ecole Polytechnique; student at that school. This establishment is the great training school for government civil engineers, who are chosen, after a two years’ course, out of those who come first on the competitive list, and for officers of the engineers and artillery, the latter being sent for a three years’ course to the “Ecole d’application” at Fontainebleau, with the rank of sub-lieutenant.
Piquage, m. (military), de romance, sleep, “balmy;” snoring, or “driving one’s pigs to market.”
Les autres cavaliers ... continuaient, à poings fermés, le piquage de leur romance.—C. Dubois de Gennes.
(Popular) Faire un ——, to steal wine by boring a hole in a cask which is being conveyed in a van to its destination. Also to abstract wine or spirits from a cask by the insertion of a tube, or “sucking the monkey.” The English expression has also the meaning of drinking generally, and originally, according to Marryat, to drink rum out of cocoa-nuts, the milk having been poured out and the liquor substituted.
Piquante, f. (thieves’), pin.
Piquantine, f. (thieves’), flea. Called sometimes “F sharp,” bugs being the “B flats.”
Piqué, adj. (popular), pas —— des hannetons, good, or “bully;” excellent.