Entre les murs

prendre la retraite

to retire

les menottes

handcuffs

entamer

to start/undermine

être au courant

to be aware of

le réfectoire

dining hall

emmerder

to annoy (slang)

prendre un pot

to have a drink

le tatouage

tattoo

la capuche

hood

le pote

friend (slang)

le marin

sailor

les affaires

things

les Antibes

Caribbean/ West Indies

une puce

flea

la cité

high-rise public housing

le frimeur

show-off

se tromper

to make a mistake

un mec

guy (slang)

puer

to stink

les fringues

clothes (slang)

maîtriser

to master/understand

bavarder

to chat

les bourgeois

middle class, materialistic

le comportement

behaviour

la conduite

behavior

le proviseur

principal

virer

to fire/kick out

chaud

dangerous/sensitive

un avertissement

warning

une porte-parole

spokesperson

le bordel

mess (slang)

les moyens

financial means

recaler

to fail

charrier

to tease/go too far

j'en ai marre

I've had enough

traiter de

to call (someone a name)

pourri

rotten (slang)

embrouiller

to tangle, confuse

con

jerk (slang)

tutoyer

to use the tu form to address someone

chiper

to steal (slang)

la bagarre

fight, scuffle

faire la grève

to go on strike

Ça me fait peter le plomb.

That drives me crazy.

Je m'en fous.

I don't give a damn

adoucir

to soften

bouffer

to eat (slang)

les conneries *

stupid things

une pétasse

skank

le truc

a thing (slang)

le carnet de correspondance

notebook for recording student discipline

expulser

to expel

gueuler

to yell

la gueule

mouth/face (slang)

fantasmer

to fantasize

un gamin

a kid (slang)

prévenir

to warn

une sanction

punishment

l'exclusion

suspension, expulsion

se cotiser

to go in together (to pay for something)

le but

goal

avoir un don

to have a gift

tierquart

neighborhood (verlan, slang)

le décolleté

low neckline