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CB slang (commonly called "CB Talk") are terms that those operating CB radio used mainly during the CB craze of the 1970s and 1980s. Some of these slang terms are still in use with their original meanings, others not used at all and some have changed meaning. This list shows the historical meanings. Image File history File links Emblem-important. ... Citizens band radio (CB) is, in the United States, a system of short distance radio communication between individuals on a selection of 40 channels within the single 27 MHz (11 meter) band. ... The 1970s decade refers to the years from 1970 to 1979, also called The Seventies. ... The 1980s refers to the years from 1980 to 1989. ...

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Popular slang terms

Popular terms for law enforcement officers

  • "Bear" – a law officer. The terms "Smokey" & "Bear" are both direct references to Smokey Bear, a character image commonly seen along U.S. highways. He wears a flat-brimmed forest ranger's hat very similar to the hat included in many highway patrol uniforms in the U.S.
  • "Bear Cave" / "Bear's Den" / "Bear's Lair" – a police station.
  • "Bear / Smokey in a plain brown wrapper" – a law officer in an unmarked police car. The term "plain white wrapper" is sometimes used, depending on the color of the vehicle.
  • "Bear in the air" / "Fly in the sky" / "Spy in the sky" – a police aircraft. While state police often use fixed-wing airplanes to monitor highway traffic, "fly" refers specifically to a helicopter.
  • "Bear in the grass" / "Smokey in the bush" – a speed trap.
  • "Bear with ears" – a police officer listening to others on the CB
  • "Blue Light" / "Blue Light Special" – a law enforcement vehicle, especially with a stopped motorist.
  • "Chicken coop" – a weigh station. "Locked up" / "clean" (ex: "the chicken coop is clean.") means the station is closed.
  • "County Mountie" – a Sheriff's deputy car.
  • "Diesel Cop" – State Department of Transportation personnel.
  • "Disco Lights" – the flashing emergency lights of a law enforcement vehicle.
  • "Evel Knievel" – cop on a motorcycle.
  • "Full-Grown" – a state policeman/trooper.
  • "Gum ball machine" / "bubble gum machine" – refers to a popular style of rotating mirror light used by many state police and some other law enforcement agencies at the time, however the term can refer to any law enforcement vehicle. It looked somewhat like the round style of 'penny' gumball machines. It was basically a clear cylinder, like an upside down jar, with lights and a spinning mirror system inside. It was usually mounted on the center of the roof.
  • "Hacker";person or individual operating a radio transmission without regard for standard rules or etiquette.
  • "Leo" – short for Law Enforcement Officer
  • "Local yokel" / "City Kitty" / "Town Clown" – a law officer with a city or township police force, seldom encountered on interstate highways.
  • "Mama Bear" – a female law enforcement officer.
  • "Miss Piggy" – a pejorative term for a female law enforcement officer.
  • "Picture-taker" / "Smokey taking pictures" / "Smokey bear is taking a picture" / "Kojak with a Kodak" – a law officer monitoring traffic with a radar gun. Today, this can also refer to an automated speed camera.
  • "Smokey" – a law officer. A "smokey report" is what CB users say when they have information on a law officer, such as location or current activities.
  • "Flash for Cash" – Speed Camera (Australia)
  • "Candy Car" – Highway Patrol Police Car usually with high-visiblity Police decals (Australia)

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Other popular terms

  • "Anteater" – a Kenworth T600/T660 tractor, because of the long sloping tilt up hood.
  • "Baboon Butt" – a Kenworth T2000 tractor, because of the grille styling.
  • "Back door" – the area behind a vehicle. To say "I got your back door" means that someone is watching another's back. "Knocking at your back door" means approaching from behind.
  • "Band-aid Buggy" / "Meat Wagon" – Ambulance.
  • "Bob-tail" – a semi-tractor operating without a trailer.
  • "Breaker" – telling other CB users that you'd like to start a transmission on a channel. May be succeeded by either the channel number, indicating that anyone may acknowledge ("One-nine" refers to channel 19, the most widely used among truck drivers), or by a specific "handle", which is requesting a particular individual to respond.
  • "Bulldog" – a Mack Tractor, noted for the bulldog hood ornament.
  • "Buster Brown" – a United Parcel Service truck.
  • "Covered Wagon" – a trailer that resembles a Covered Wagon of the old west, normally used for carrying steel rolls.
  • "Come back" – a request for someone to acknowledge a transmitted message or reply to a question.
  • "Cornbinder" – a Navistar International truck (formerly International Harvester).
  • "Dead-heading" – a truck operating with an empty trailer.
  • "Driver" – a polite form of address used when you don't know someone's on-the-air nickname. (see "handle")
  • "Flash for cash" – a speed camera
  • "Flip-flop" – the return leg of a trip. (ex: "Catch you on the flip-flop" means "I'll contact you again on the way back.")
  • "Four" – short for the ten code 10-4, which means acknowledged, okay, etc.
  • "Four-wheeler" – While this is commonly used to refer to a four-wheel-drive vehicle (such as a jeep or pickup), among truck drivers it refers to any vehicle with only 2 axles, as distinguished from an "eighteen-wheeler" (a semi truck).
  • "Freightshaker" – another term for a Freightliner tractor
  • "Front door" – the leader of a convoy, or the area ahead of a vehicle.
  • "Gator" / "Alligator" – a large piece of a truck tire's tread in the roadway. The name comes from the tire tread's resemblance to the scaly ridges of an alligator's back, or the propensity for these pieces of tread to be drawn up between the cab and trailer by the air currents of a truck at highway speeds "like a snapping gator", and sever the air brake lines between the tractor and the trailer. Most newer trucks have shield plates designed to prevent this.
  • "Gay Bay" – San Francisco Bay area.
  • "Go-go juice" / "Motion Lotion" – fuel (usually diesel, since large trucks seldom run on gasoline.)
  • "Good buddy" – In the 1970s, this was the stereotypical term for friend on CB radio. It now means a male homosexual.[1][2]
  • "Good neighbor" – this has replaced "good buddy" as the acceptable term for friend.
  • "Got your ears on?" – asking the receiver if they are on the air and listening.
  • "Hammer lane" – the far left lane (fast lane).
  • "Handle" – the nickname a CB user uses in CB transmissions. Other CB users will refer to the user by this nickname. To say "What's your handle?" is to ask another user for their CB nickname.
  • "Harvey Wallbanger" – a driver who appears to be drunk or is driving recklessly.
  • "Hauling fence post holes" / "Hauling sailboat fuel" / "Hauling dispatcher brains" – hooked to an empty trailer.
  • "How 'bout ya?" – a query used when seeking another, usually followed by their CB handle, or some other identifier if you don't know their handle.
  • "How many candles are you burning?" – is to ask 'how old are you?'
  • "I'm / We're gone" – indicates that one is finished transmitting and may not be listening to the conversation any longer, or may be traveling out of receiving range. Equivalent to "Signing off", "Out", or "Clear" in formalized radio voice procedure.
  • "K-Whopper" / "KW" – a Kenworth Tractor
  • "Kick a tire" – to urinate using the quadruple tractor or trailer tires as cover
  • "Kicker" / "Boots" – a Linear Amplifier that is used to boost the transmitting power of a CB Radio above the legal five watts.
  • "Lot Lizard" – prostitute.
  • "Organ Donor" – a civilian motorcyclist.
  • "Pete" / "Petercar" / "Poor Boy" – a Peterbilt Tractor
  • "Pickle Park" – an interstate rest area frequented by prostitutes.
  • "Pregnant Rollerskate" – a Volkswagen Beetle.
  • "Portable Parking Lot" – a car hauler
  • "Pumpkin" – a Schneider National, Inc. truck.
  • "Put the hammer down" / "Put the pedal to the metal" – Slang for flooring the accelerator.
  • "Reefer" – a refrigerated trailer, used for transporting foodstuffs and other perishable cargo.
  • "Road pizza" – an animal that has been run over and flattened on the pavement.
  • "Rolling refinery" – a tank truck carrying fuel.
  • "Salt Shaker" – a snowplow
  • "Sandbagging" – a term used to describe the activity of a person not participating in conversation but listening only, despite having the capability of speaking. This is not the same as listening in using a simple receiver, as the person doing this activity can transmit using the two-way radio, but chooses not to.[1][2] It is done to monitor people for entertainment or for gathering information about the actions of others. Often CBer’s will sandbag to listen to others' responses to their previous input to a conversation, sometimes referred to a "reading the mail."[3]
  • "Schneider Eggs" – Orange barrels filled with sand at construction sites to serve as a protective barrier for construction wokers against moving traffic.
  • "Seat cover" – an attractive female passenger in a vehicle.
  • "ShakeyLiner" / "Freightshaker" – a Freightliner tractor.
  • "Shakeytown" – Los Angeles, so nicknamed because of the earthquakes that occur there.
  • "Sin City" – Las Vegas, Nevada
  • "Skateboard" – a flatbed truck or trailer.
  • "Steak on the grill" / "Put a steak on the grill" – to hit a cow.
  • "Suicide jockey" – a truck carrying explosives.
  • "Super Slab" – a slang term for a multi-lane highway
  • "Twenty" / "What's your twenty?" – asking the receiver what their current location is. This term comes from the ten-code 10-20.
  • "10-100" / "Going number 1" – (polite) Taking a bathroom break, specifically urination.
  • "10-200" / "Going number 2" – (polite) Taking a bathroom break, specifically defecation.
  • "Toilet mouth" / "Potty mouth" – someone using profanity on the air (on-air profanity is generally frowned upon within the CB community).
  • "Badger Bound" – Wisconsin Bound Highway Traffic.

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References

  1. ^ http://www.geocities.com/TheTropics/1608/page2.htm
  2. ^ http://www.acbro.org/a19.htm
  3. ^ http://www.truckercountry.com/cb-terminology.html

See also

  • Ten-code

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Citizens' band radio - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (3524 words)
Originally CB did require a license and the use of a call sign but when the CB craze was at its peak, many people ignored this requirement and used made up nicknames or "handles".
CB is still a popular hobby in many countries though its utility as a method of communication among the general public has diminished, due to developments such as mobile phones.
CB radio is still a near-universal method of communication among semi truck drivers in America and also remains very popular in rural areas with farmers and hunters, plus sometimes even acting as a sort of "party line" phone system in deep-rural areas too far in the boonies to have phone lines.
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