- Aft - Toward the stern or "blunt end of the boat".
- AFU - All F****d Up.
- Alpha Mike Foxtrot - Adios, Motherf****r (goodbye!).
- Anchor Clanker - Boatswains mates.
- Air(e)dale - Naval personnel connected with Naval aviation.
- Bilge - to fail or do terribly at something.
- Bird Farm - an Aircraft Carrier
- Black shoe - Naval personnel NOT connected with Naval aviation
(the poor sods).
- Blue nose - a sailor who has crossed the Arctic circle
- Blue water Ops - operations in the open ocean (as opposed to
Gulfs, etc.). Denotes the logistics support available to sustain ops
away from land bases.
- Bohica - Bend over, here it comes again
- Bravo Zulu - Well done (from the NATO code for "well
done")
- Bug Juice - Sort of like Kool Aid
- Bulkhead - Wall or other device delineating a compartment.
- Cannon cocker - a Gunner's Mate
- Captain's Mast - Informal hearing by the unit, ship or station
commander. Usually for relatively minor offenses - not a
court-martial.
- Catapult (or cat) - A device which literally hurls aircraft into
the air off an aircraft carrier.
- Charlie Sierra - chicken sh*t. Stupid stuff.
- Chief - A Chief Petty Officer.
- Coffee pot - a nuclear reactor (aka teakettle)
- Compartment - Room or space in barracks or ship.
- Cover - hat (aka lid)
- Crow - the bird on the rating insignia worn by petty officers
along with some chevrons
- Deck - The floor or a level on a ship.
- Deck ape - Boatswain's Mates (aka Knuckledraggers)
- Deep 6 - to throw something overboard (or away)
- Delta Sierra - Dumb Sh*t - stupid.
- Dixie cups - a sailors white hat or any sailor under E-7
- Dog watch - a 2-hour versus the usual 4-hour watch.
- Field Day - to thoroughly clean from top to bottom.
- Forward - Toward the bow or "pointy end of the boat".
- FUBAB - Fuc*ed Up Beyond All Belief
- FUBAR - Fuc*ed Up Beyond All Repair
- Gear adrift - anything not properly stowed or tied down.
- Gedunk (or Geedunk) - store which sells candy, soft drinks, ice
cream, etc.
- Goat Locker - Chief's mess and quarters on a ship
- Gouge - The "straight scoop", inside information.
- GQ - General Quarters
- Gundeck - to "pencil-whip" a task, sign off as complete
without performing it (often done with inspections).
- Gut bomb - Navy chow.
- Gyrene - A member of the Marine Corps
- Hat up and jet - put on your cover and leave
- Head - Bathroom.
- Jack - a flag at the bow of the ship.
- Jar head - Another word for a Gyrene.
- Jet - leave, go
- JG - A Lieutenant Junior Grade
- Knee-knockers - the phlange around the oval-shaped watertight
doors. The lip of the opening is roughly 18" off the deck. Just
about shin level!
- Knuckledraggers - Boatswain's Mates (aka deck apes)
- Liberty - Going ashore or into town when off duty.
- Lid - the hat or dixie cup.
- Mail buoy watch - watch duty assigned as a joke on new
crewmembers. There is no such thing as a "mail buoy".
- OBA - Oxygen Breathing Apparatus - an oxygen generation and
recycling unit worn during firefighting.
- Onstation - the ship is at it's designated place.
- One MC - the PA system on the ship.
- Overhead - The ceiling.
- Port - If facing forward, the left side of the ship. Also, of
course, a harbor.
- Rollers - hot dogs, frankfurters
- Sandcrab - civilian contractor aboard ship.
- Sea Bat - a joke pulled on anyone gullible enough. Usually ends
with the jokers whacking the jokee with brooms.
- Scuttlebutt - Water fountain. Also rumors, etc., generally
associated with being spread at the water fountain.
- Shellback - anyone who has crossed the Equator and gone thru the
initiation. All others are Pollywogs.
- Sierra Hotel - Sh*t Hot! The best
- Splice the Main Brace - have an alcoholic drink.
- Stanchion - Any pole or pillar used to support the overhead.
- Starboard - If facing forward, the right side of the ship.
- Steel beach - use of the deck for barbeque, games, etc. A party
aboard the ship.
- Squid - What Gyrenes call sailor-types.
- Sliders - Hamburgers (with lids=cheeseburgers).
- Tango Uniform - "Tits Up"...broken, AFU.
- Tea kettle - a nuclear reactor (aka coffee pot)
- Titless WAVE - a male Yeoman.
- Tits up - broken, inoperative, dead.
- UNREP - UNderway REPlenishment - taking on supplies, ammo, fuel,
etc., while still moving thru the water.
- Zero - Any Officer..from the "O" in their pay grades.
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