subs. (common).—A corpse. [By comparison to butchers’ wares.] Cf., COLD MEAT.
ENGLISH SYNONYMS.—Cold meat; pickles (medical students’: for specimens direct from the subject); croaker; stiff; stiff ’un; dustman; cold pig.
FRENCH SYNONYMS.—Un engourdi (thieves’: properly, torpid, heavy, dull); une falourde engoúrdie (popular: falourde = a heavy piece of firewood); un dégelé (pop: dégel = death); un rebouis (thieves’: one who has been ‘polished off’); un refroidi (thieves’: refroidir = to cool, to chill; in cant, to kill); les conserves (popular: literally, preserves; cf., ‘pickles’: specifically used of murdered bodies recovered from the water).
