Slang

• Abbo dabbo: "space madness"; Witchspace psychosis
• Annie: an Anaconda
• Blues: police
• Bug: Thargoid
• C-monkey: a spacer (pilot or crewman -- usually specifically human or humanoid)
• Cobby: a Cobra (usually followed by "One" or "Three", to distinguish a Cobra Mark I or a Cobra Mark III)
• Dancing the Tionisla Two-Step: deceased
• Dock-jock/Dock jockey: station dockmaster
• Doughnut: a Torus station
• Downer: a fuel leak
• Ferdy: a Fer-de-Lance
• Hardhead: an ECM Hardened missile
• Iron ass: a heavily shielded ship
• Jameson: an inexperienced pilot
• Kiss the stars/kiss the sun: sunskimming
• Quarksman: an engineer (usually highly skilled)
• Rock-jock/Rock jockey: an asteroid miner
• Scutter: a low-grade technician
• Slim/Slim Jim: a Cobra Rapier
• Sparkler: a plasma cannon
• Squawk: distress call
• Squealer: an ECM
• Sucker: a planet-dweller
• Sunshine: Quirium
• Tagalong: any ship which uses another ship's wormhole to make a witchjump to the same destination

Links

• Source: Disembodied: on the BB (quote=Disembodied post_id=49751 time=1207877130 user_id=1849)