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Lost Art of CB Lingo: X, Y, Z
Monday, June 29th, 2009
This is it. We’ve reached the end of the road. Come to the last stop on the alphabet highway. By now you should have a real handle of the CB lingo and hopefully you’ve enjoyed the ride along the way.
So, without further adieu here’s your final language lesson featuring the letters X-Y-Z:
X
XYL – The wife of a CB’er
YL – Young lady, Miss
Y
Youngville – Young children using the channel
You got it – Letting another station know he has the “floor”.
You gone? – Are you still there?
Your telephone is ringing – Someone is calling for you.
Z
Z’s – Sleep
You can get a dictionary full of terms from the book, Woody’s World of CB.
10-4 from Hotlanta
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Lost Art of C-B Lingo: S – T
Monday, June 1st, 2009
It’s that time of the week to pop in a Willie Nelson 8-track and roll through the next set of letters in our CB dictionary. By now, fleet managers from sea to shining sea should be able to talk the talk when they’re putting the pedal to the medal, but we can’t stop until we get to the end of the road, so without further adieu here’s you lingo for the through weeks featuring the letters S-T:
S
Sailboat fuel – Running on empty
Salt mines – Place of employment
Scrub brush – Street cleaning truck
Shot an eyeball on it – Saw it
Shovelling coal – Accelerating
Show-off lane – Passing lane
Skates – Tires
Smile and comb your hair – Radar trap up ahead
Smokey Bear – State Police
Smokey with a camera – Cop with radar
Someone spilled honey on the road – State troopers ahead everywhere
Stop to get groceries – Stop and eat
Straight Shot – Road is clear of police and other obstructions
Sunbeam – A CB’er who livens the channel with witticisms
T
Tearjerker – A CB’er who always cries the blues
Tooled-up – A souped up rig
Trading Stamps – Money
Turkey – Dumb
Turn Twenty – Location of exit or turn
Two miles of ditches for every mile of road – Drive safely, keep in the middle
Check back with us next week for a run down of the letters U-V-W, or you can get a dictionary full of terms from the book, Woody’s World of CB.
10-4 from Hotlanta
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The Lost Art of CB Lingo: N-O
Friday, May 8th, 2009
Happy Friday to you good buddy, we’ve got your next installment of cb lingo and it’s covered in nightcrawlers. So put one foot out the door and one on the floor and get ready for N-O!
N
Nail it down – Pinpoint or recollect
Nap Trap – Place to sleep
Negative – No
Negative Copy – Didn’t hear
Negatory – No
Neon, Freon, Ion Jockey – Truck driver with many lights on his rig
Nightcrawlers – Many police in the area
Ninety Weight – Liquor
Nodding off – Getting tired
Nobody knows where the teddy bear goes – State troopers criss-crossing the freeway
Numbers – Best wishes. “3’s and 8’s”
O
Oil burner – Diesel truck
On the by – Listening, not talking
On the side – Standing by, available for a call, listening on frequency. O.M. (old man) – A CB’er
On a [insert city name] Turn – i.e.- “I’m on an Alamo turn” (I’ll make my return from San Antonio).
One foot on the floor, one hanging out the door, and she just won’t do no more – Full speed.
Open Season – Cops are everywhere
Out – Through transmitting
Outdoor TV – Drive-in movie
Over – Your turn to transmit
Over and out – Closing the transmission
Check back with us next week for a run down of the letters P-Q-R, or you can get a dictionary full of terms from the book, Woody’s World of CB.
10-4 from Hot-lanta
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Lost Art of CB Lingo: L-M
Friday, May 1st, 2009
It’s Friday, which means it’s time to crank up the Jerry Reed and get ready for your weekly dose of CB lingo. This week, we’re running full speed right through the middle of the alphabet, hope no lady bear’s try to stop us.
L
Lady Bear – Female police officer
Lame – Broken down vehicle
Land Yacht – Mobile home or camper
Lane Lover – Someone who won’t budge out of a particular lane
Latrine Lips – One who has a dirty mouth
Lettuce – money
Line – Freight line company
Log some Z’s – Get some sleep
Loot Limo – Armored Car
M
Machine – Same as “Rig”
Mad Money – Expense account
Magic Mile – The last mile of any trip
Make it a best seller – Have a good trip
Mama – Girlfriend or wife
Man in Slicker – Fireman
Marker – Milepost on highway
Mayday – Distress call
Meatwagon – Ambulance
Mess-em-up – Accident
Mobile Eyeball – Checking out another truck while passing it
Mobile – Forrest Logging truck
Mobile Mattress – 4 wheeler pulling a camper
Money Bus – Armored truck
Monster Lane – Speed lane
Motion Lotion – Gas; fuel
Mr. Clean – Overtly cautious driver
Muck Truck – Cement truck
Mud – Coffee
Check back with us next week for N-O, or you can get a dictionary full of terms from the book, Woody’s World of CB.
10-4 from Hot-lanta.
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Lost Art of CB Lingo: I-K
Friday, April 24th, 2009
Breaker, breaker, one-nine, we got ourselves a convoy this week. We’re running 3 letters down the alphabet highway, so get out of the way for cb lingo from letters I-J-& K.
I
Ice Box – Refrigerated trailer.
In a short – Real soon
In the mud – Noise or other signals on the channel
In the Pokey with Smokey – Arrested
Invitations -Traffic citations, tickets
J
Jack – CB term for brother or friend
Jack Rabbit – Police of any kind
Jewelry – Lights on a rig
John Law – Cop
Juke Joint – Small, inexpensive eating or drinking place
K
Keep ‘em Between the Ditches – Have a safe trip
Keep the bugs off your glass and the trouble off your… – CB Sign-off
Keep your eyes and ears open and your black stack smokin’ – Be alert and make good time
Keep your noise between the ditches and smokey out of your britches – Drive carefully, lookout for speedtraps
Keep your rubber down and your metal up – Drive carefully and have a good trip
Kiddie car – School bus
Knuckle Buster – Fight
Kojak with a Kodak – Cop with radar
Check back with us next week for L-M, or you can get a dictionary full of terms from the book, Woody’s World of CB.
10-4 from Hot anta
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Lost Art of C-B Lingo: G – H
Monday, April 20th, 2009
This week’s CB lingo lesson covers the letter’s G & H, which means we’re getting close to the alphabetical equivalent of the heartland of America. The drivers in your fleet are sure to have noticed a difference in your trucker talking ability by now.
G
Gas Jockey – Gas station attendant
Get horizontal – Lie down to sleep
Get Trucking – Make some distance.
Girlie Bear – Female cop
Go Ahead – Answer back.
Go Juice – Truck fuel
Got a copy? – Can you hear me?
Go to 100 – Restroom stop.
Green Stamp Collector – Police with radar
Ground Clouds – Fog
Guitar Town – Nashville
H
Hack – Taxi
Haircut palace – Bridge or overpass with low clearance
Hammer Down – Accelerate
Hay Shaker – Trailer transporting a mobile home
Highball – Go nonstop to your destination at a rapid pace.
High Rise – A large bridge or overpass.
Hip Pocket – Glove box.
Hot Lanta – Atlanta, Georgia
How tall are you? – How tall is your truck?
Hundred mile coffee – Strong coffee
Check back with us next week as we keep rolling down the alphabet highway, or you can get a dictionary full of terms from the book, Woody’s World of CB.
10-4 from Hot lanta.
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Lost Art of CB Lingo: E-F
Saturday, April 11th, 2009
We were going to try to take the weekend off, but the demand for more CB lingo was too much. The requests coming were so fast and furious we had to tell everybody to keep their flaps down and give us a little time to pull together our favorite lingo from starting with the letters E-F. So, grab a forty weight and enjoy.
Starting with E-F, here are some of our favorites:
E
Ears- Receiver / Radio
Eastbound -Vehicle moving in the eastern direction
Eighty-eight’s around the house – Good luck and best wishes to you and yours
Eyeball’s -Headlights
Everybody must be walking the dog- All channels are busy.
Evil Knievel -Motorcycle cop
F
Fake brake- Driver with his foot on the brake
Fat load- Overweight truck load
Feed The Bears -Paying a speeding fine or ticket
Flaps down -Slow down
Flop box -Motel, or room in truck stop
Forty weight -Coffee (sometimes Beer)
Forty fours – Childern; kisses
Full of vitamins – Running full bore
Check back with us next week as we keep rolling down the alphabet highway, or you can get a dictionary full of terms from the book, Woody’s World of CB.
10-4 Rubber Duckie. Hope you don’t have to feed the bears anytime soon.
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The Lost Art of CB Radio: Part 2
Friday, April 3rd, 2009
Well our 1st blog on CB lingo was so popular there was a line waiting to get on our site from here to Cactus Patch (Phoenix, AZ). So, we thought we keep things rolling down Alphabet road and choose our favorites from C-D:
C
Cash Register -Toll booth
Chew ‘n choke -Restaurant
Checking My Eyelinds For Pin Holes -Tired or sleepy.
Check the seatcovers -Look at that passenger (usually a woman)
Chicken Coup- Weigh station
Christmas Card- Speeding ticket
Coffee Bean- Waiter or waitress
Colorado Kool Aid -Beer
Convoy- 2 or more vehicles traveling the same route.
D
Dead Pedal- Slow moving car or truck
Dice City- Las Vegas
Diesel Juice -Fuel oil
Dixie Cup- Female operator with southern accent
Doing the Five-Five- Traveling at 55mph
Don’t Feed The Bears- Don’t get any tickets
Double Nickel -55mph
Down and on the side -Through talking but listening.
Dream Weaver- Sleepy driver who is all over the road.
Dressed for the ball -You have your “Ears ON”, listening to the road conditions
Man, that was intense. I’m checking my eyelids for pinholes. I need a Colorado Kool-Aid and two tickets to Dice City after that. Check back next week when we make our pull off at the metaphorical exit ramp better known as E-F and G.
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Series: The Lost Art of CB Lingo
Monday, March 30th, 2009
Note from the Editor: This is the first in a 13-part series on the Lost Art of CB Lingo. Each Friday, we’ll cover two new letters in the alphabet and their corresponding terms. Check back each Friday for new updates. 10-4!
In this day of two-way radios, cell phones and global tracking system systems, we are in danger of losing a true American treasure – CB lingo. Over the next few weeks, check in on our dictionary of terms and phrases that will either have the drivers in your fleet admire your ability to “brush your teeth and comb your hair” (radar trap ahead), or they’ll just think you’ve gone crazy. Starting with A-B, here are some of our favorites:
A
ACE – Important CB’er
AF – Audio Frequency
All the good numbers -Best wishes.
Alligator-Tread from the tire of an 18 wheeler on the road
Alligator Station -All mouth and no ears. A person who likes to talk just to hear himself.
Amigo -Friend
Ankle biter- Small child or annoying teenager
Antler Alley -Deer crossing
B
Baby Bear- Cop in training, or rookie
Back off the hammer -Slow down
Bean House Bull -Trucker talk exchanged at truck stops, eyeball-to-eyeball
Bear Bait -Speeding car
Bearmobile- Police car
Breaker-Breaker -Same as break. Also the title of Chuck Norris’s first mainstream movie.
Bring it back -Answer back
Bring yourself on it- Request to move into the right lane
Brown paper bag -Unmarked Police car
Bubble gum machine- Flashing lights on top of car
Bucket Mouth- Loudmouth, or someone who uses a lot of profanity.
Bucket of bolts -Eighteen wheeler
Check back with us from time to time as we make our way through the alphabet, or you can get a dictionary full of terms from the book Woody’s World of CB.
10-4 Rubber Duckie
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