The idea here is to create a glossary of common words and phrases, and our uncommon definitions. The Oxford dictionary probably does not include our definitions of words like jeep, hammer, puke and many others. Your contributions are invited: Ralph Robison
Words
bleeding | the inability to stay awake during work (typically on mids) |
bloke | 1. generic term for British person; 2. adj. for anything British, e.g bloke ingenuity |
carbon | substance to be applied to the earpieces of a jeep 's headset |
day lady/ day whore |
someone who works straight day shift (day watch) |
df bearings | a box of ball bearings kept in the df area - just waiting for a jeep to come looking for them |
ditty bopper | X1 |
DITW | acronym for Days In The War - an important statistic when one is short |
DOTS | acronym for Days On The Sands - similar to DITW, but one is only leaving Chicksands for another assignment |
easy | someone that is tricked of fooled in a gag or prank (see carbon , spurs , tail ) |
EMHO Report | paperwork assignments given unsuspecting rookies to collect useless information from male co-worker pertaining to sexual prowess |
FIGMO | (F**K It, Got My Orders)...The traditional acronym written on a copy of separation orders placed on your dorm door declaring to the world how little time you had left in the AF. |
hammer | local young woman, especially those frequenting the Annex on "hammer night" |
The Hill | a very secret place to work (and play) with people who you will appreciate much more 25 years later. |
hit | successful interception of a Morse or printer message |
jeep | a rookie, or someone who acts like a rookie - particularly gullible with respect to various practical jokes (see carbon , spurs , tail ) |
lifer | someone who self-sentences themselves to a life of government labor, or an acronym for Lazy, Inefficient F...up, Expecting Retirement.. |
Ping! ![]() |
response meant to humiliate someone when they look down at your forefinger and thumb shaped in a circle held below your waist. |
pinger | pinger - a jeep (derivation is either because of their short basic training haircut or their ability to get "excited" fairly easily.) |
puke | 1. an overachiever; 2. one with an excess of military bearing, 3. might also be a lifer |
rootski | a very attentive female; may or may not be classified as a hammer |
seriously | what follows is probably not to be taken seriously |
short | used to describe a person who has a discharge date |
spurs | paper devices (shaped like a spur) attached to the back of boots/shoes of unsuspecting individuals who then walk the work areas and are ridiculed by co-workers for being so easy |
swing flick | movies shown at the base theatre after midnight for shift workers |
tail | typically, the perforated edge of continuous forms suspended from the belt loop of a jeep - the longer the better |
whanker | someone who masturbates; a derogatory term to describe a friend who has done something stupid or thoughtless |
willy | English term for penis |
Phrases
let's keep it clean | usually used when someone was not |
that's what she said | multi-purpose punch line |