The IAAFOTS Guide To CB Lingo
Ace: an expert CB operator
Adios: stopped talking, signing off
Advertising: marked police car with lights on
Alligator station: radio that only transmits; CB operator who prefers to talk rather than listen
Anchor clanker: boat trailer
Apple: illegal CB operator; someone hooked on CB
Appliance operator: CB operator who doesn't know anything about CB
Back: over
Back door: the road behind. The last guy in the convoy usually watches the back door for any smokeys coming from behind. When the "back door is closed," the road behind is covered for signs of police (also back door "sealed up")
Back it down: drive slower; also "back down," "back off the hammer
Back out (or back off): stop transmitting
Back slide (also back stroke): return trip
Bad scene: overcrowded channel
Bagging them: police catching CB'ers
Bang a uey: make a U-turn
Baobab: wide load
Barefoot: use of a transmitter that is not modified; output signal not additionally amplified - e.g., "running a rig barefoot"
Bear bite: speeding ticket
Bear buster: AM radio with CB converter which enables monitoring of CB conversations
Bear cage: police station
Bear cave: highway patrol station
Bearded buddy: police
Bear food or bear bait: speeding vehicle without CB set
Bear in the air: police helicopter
Bear trap: radar setup
Beast: the CB unit
Beat the bushes: lead vehicle in a convoy speeds to bring out police
Beaver: female CB operator; female; girl
Bebop: weak signals
Bedbug hauler: moving van
Belly-up: vehicle turned over
Bending the windows: clear signal reception
Benny chaser: coffee
Beer tone: intermittent tone signal
Big dummy: good buddy
Big 10-4: emphatic agreement
Bit on the seat of the britches: got speeding ticket
Bleeding all over: interference from another channel
Blinkin' winkin': school bus
Bobtailing: vehicle without CB tailing a vehicle with a CB
Bone box (also blood box): ambulance
Break: a party
Breaker: term used to cut in on channel requesting transmission
BTO: big-time operator
Bubblegummer: teenage CB'er
Bubble machine: flashing police lights
Bull rack: trucker with a load of livestock
California turnarounds: "bennies" pills to keep you awake
Candy man: FCC man
Catch car: police car past radar trap
Chicken coop: truck weighing station
Chucking carriers: holding down key on mike to prevent others from talking
Clean shot: no police around, good road conditions
Cold coffee: beer
Comeback: return call
Come back; come on; come here: answer back
Convoy: a line of trucks moving in same direction; a convoy has someone watching the "front door" and the "back door." The vehicles in between are in the "rocking chair"
Copying the mail: monitoring CB, listening to CB
Country Cadillac: tractor trailer truck
Cover: girl, woman
Cradle baby: CB operator who is afraid to tell another CB'er to stand by
Darktime: nighttime
Diesel digit: channel 15
Dig you out: understand you
Dime channel: channel 10
Dirty side: East Coast of U.S. Usually mean New York or New Jersey
Do it to me: answer me
Double buffalo: 55 miles per hour
Double L: telephone
Double seven: no, negative
Down and doing it like Sonny Pruitt: trucker moving ahead
Dress for sale: prostitute
Driving the peg: driving at the legal speed limit
Ears: CB or two-way radio
Eastbound struttin' style: heading east going fast
Eighteen-wheeler: a five-axle truck with a combination of 18 wheels; the most common truck on the highway
Eighty-eights: love and kisses
Electric teeth: police radar
Empty carrier: key down but not talking
Evel Knievel: motorcycle rider, "Evel Knievel smokey" is police on motorcycle
Fat load: overloaded truck
Fifty-dollar lane: passing lane
Fingers: CB operator who keeps switching from channel to channel
Fishing pole and a partner: dual antennas
Flake: word used instead of illegal four-letter word
Flappers: ears
Flip-flopping bear: police turning around
Flop it: turn around
Foot warmer: illegal signal-boosting amplifier
Forty-fours: children; kisses
Fortyweight: coffee
Four: abbreviation of 10-4; OK
Fox hunting: FCC looking for CB'ers using profanity
Foxy lady: good-looking woman
Free ride: prostitute
Fugitive: a CB'er who is operating on a channel different from channel which is popular in the area
Gat: gun
Geological survey: looking under the CB unit
Georgia overdrive: neutral gear, used to coast downhill
Glory card: Class D license
Go-go girls: a truckload of pigs
Going-home hole: highest gear in a truck
Goldielocks: female CB operator
Gone: transmission finished
Good buddy: salutation used for any CB operator
Good numbers: best wishes; 73's (best regards) and 88's (best wishes)
Gooney bird: machine that blocks sound with pulsations
Got a copy?: do you hear?
Got your ears on?: are you listening to your CB?
Hag feast: several female CB operators
Haircut palace: low-clearance overpass
Hamburger helper: linear amplifier
Hammer back: slow down
Happy number: reading on S meter
Hard ankle: trucker, workingman
Hard to pull out: hard to understand
Harvey Wallbanger: reckless driver
Have a 36-24-36 tonight: sign-off
Hillbilly opera house: CB radio
Home twenty: residence
Honey bear (mamma bear, sugar bear): female police officer
Hot pants: smoke or fire
How about?: calling
Hung up: can't leave CB set
Indian: neighbor who gets interference on TV set due to CB transmitting
Keep the greasy side down and the shiny side up: drive safely
Kenosha Cadillac: car made by American Motors
Kodiak with a Kodak: police radar
Laying her down: stopping the truck
Local yokels: local police
Mercy; mercy sakes: yes; an acknowledgment or exclamation
Modulating (or modjitating): talking
Mollies: uppers
Monfort lane: passing lane
Motion lotion: fuel
Muff: girl or woman; also "miniskirt"
Muskrat: child
Negatory: no
Pair of sevens: no contact
Pantie stretcher: fat woman
Paperhanger: police giving out speeding tickets
Pass the numbers to you: good luck
Patch: town, city
Pavement princes: prostitute who works the truck stops
Pickumup truck: pickup truck
Pididdle: one headlight out on vehicle
Pidink: one taillight out on vehicle
Pulling the big one: the last and final sign-off
Pumpkin: flat tire
Pushing a rig: driving a truck
Q-bird: a generator that produces an intermittent tone
Quiz: breath test
Rake the leaves and shake the trees: look out for police, traffic, road obstructions; first and last truck in convoy do this
Reefer: refrigerator truck trailer
Rest-em-up: roadside rest area
Roger roller skate: four-wheeler weaving in and out of trucks, going 20 miles per hour over speed limit
Rumbleseat: vehicle without CB following CB'er
Sailboat fuel: running on empty gas tank
Salt mines: place of employment
Say what: repeat.
Seat covers: legs of female in passing car
Seven threes: signing off
Shaky side: West Coast of U.S.; usually California. So named because of earthquakes
Shimming: illegal boosting of a transmitter
Shoot the skip: bounce the signal off upper atmosphere, which is illegal
Short, short: soon
Sick horse: slow-moving truck due to mechanical difficulties, heavy load, etc.
Skating: loafing
Slaughterhouse: channel 11
Slider: a variable frequency oscillator that is illegal
Smile and comb your hair: police radar coming up
Smokey dozing: a stopped police car
Smokey on rubber: policeman moving along the highway
Smokey the Bear (also smoley, Smokey Bear, or bear): police on the highway. There are local bears, County Mounties, etc.
Smokey with ears: police patrol listening to CB
Sneaky snake: hidden police car
Sport City: Shreveport, Louisiana.
Stack them eights: best wishes
Stepped all over you: transmission interrupted
Stroller: someone operating walkie-talkie
Struggle: putting a lot of strain on a channel; trying to "break" a channel
Sucker: CB set in for repairs
Suicide sleeper: truck with sleeper over cab
Super slab: highway
Sweet thing: female CB operator
Swindle sheets: trucker's logbook
Swinging beef: trailer load of sides of beef
T Town: Texarcana, AR or TX
Tennessee Valley Indiana: TV interference
Tennis shoes: tires
Ten Roger: message recieved
Ten-ten till we do it again: signing off
Thermos bottle: tank truck
Thin man: CB operator who puts out weak signal
Threes: best regards
Throw the hammer out the window: slow down
Ticker tape: FCC rules and regulations
Tijuana taxi: patrol car with all the lights and markings
TQ stop: truck-queen stop, facilities for women truckers at truck stop
Train station: traffic court
Trick babe: prostitute
Trip: strong signal
Truck 'em easy: have a good trip
Turkey: dumb
Turn over: stop
Twenty: location
Twenty-three A: illegal CB radio band
TX: telephone
Uncle Charlie: FCC
Ungowa Bwana: OK; 10-4
Use the Jake: slow down
Walking the dog: signal getting clear reception
Wallace lane: middle lane of three-lane highway
Wall to wall: loud and clear
Wall-to-wall bears: many police
Warden: the FCC, also the wife
Weekend warriors: National guard
We gone: stopped transmitting but listening
Weirdy: homemade CB set
What am I putting on you?: how strong is my signal
What's the function at the junction: how's traffic at next intersection
Wilco: I will comply
Workingman: truck driver
Wrapped loaf: set that is in the box it came in
XL: single woman
XY: spouse
XYD: daughter
XYL: ex-young lady, wife
XYM: husband
YL: young lady
Yo: yes
Youngsville: kids
Zettel: speeding tickets