Keep your noise between the ditches and smokey out of your britches – Drive carefully, lookout for speedtraps. Keep the shiny side up and the greasy side down – Drive safely. Keep the whites on your noise and the reds on your tail – Stay on the road. Keep ‘em Between the Ditches – Have a safe trip Highball – Go nonstop to your destination at a rapid pace. Haircut palace – Bridge or overpass with low clearance Hag Feast – Group of female CB’ers on the channel Green Stamp Collector – Police with radar Same as “keying the mike”.ĭon’t Feed The Bears- Don’t get any ticketsĭown and on the side -Through talking but listening.ĭream Weaver- Sleepy driver who is all over the road.ĭressed for the ball -You have your “Ears ON”, listening to the road conditionsįollow the stripes home- Have a safe tripįox jaws – Female with nice voice, but not necessarily a body to match Over and out.īear Trap -Stationary police vehicle with radarīear in the air- Helicopter or other police aircraftīeat the bushes -To drive ahead of the others and try to lure out the policeīeaver Fever -A CBer who misses his girlfriend or wifeīrush your teeth and comb your hair-Radar trap aheadīubble gum machine- Flashing lights on top of carĬhecking My Eyelinds For Pin Holes -Tired or sleepy.Ĭheck the seatcovers -Look at that passenger (usually a woman)Ĭhicken Coup is Clean -Weigh station is closed.Ĭonvoy- 2 or more vehicles traveling the same route.Ĭopy -Receiving a message: “Do you copy?”ĭead Key- Activating the microphone, but not talking. Good luck and keep the bugs off your glass and the trouble off your ass. In an effort to keep this colorful language alive, here is a dictionary of terms we think you should know. Three’s and eights Goodbye and best wishes. Trucker 2: Keep the shiny side up and the greasy side down. Keep your eyes and ears open and your black stack smoking. Then speed to the next exit where there is gasoline, donuts, and women. Trucker 2: Well then, put your foot on the floor and let the motor toter –there is Go-Juice, Mud and Muff next exit. I am running on empty and there is fog ahead. Trucker 1: I’m runnin’ on sailboat fuel and there’s ground clouds ahead. All channels are busy and there is TV channel interference. Everybody must be walking the dog and there’s Tennessee Valley Indians. Did you put an eyeball on her? Did you see the Volkswagon going full speed just passed me? Trucker 1: A pregnant roller skate full of vitamins dusted my britches. I received a speeding ticket from a female cop in an unmarked car in Las Vegas. Got a Christmas Card from a Beaver Bear in an a brown paper package back in Dice City. There is a police officer with radar ahead. There’s a Kojak with a Kodak ahead Slow Down and don’t get a traffic ticket. Trucker 1: Back off the hammer and don’t feed the bears. We’ve provided a translation so you can follow along: Here’s an example of a conversation between two truckers over their CB radio. In the colorful language of the trucker, CBs were gone “faster than a raped ape.” As the “Miami Vice” clean and flashy ideal was established, CB radios became unwanted detritus from a gritty unclean age and were cast aside. Truckers were no longer rock stars of the road. And once the Reagan era came into effect, the lust for lowbrow was over. Millions of users jammed the frequencies, making communication almost impossible – or, at the very least, annoyingly noisy. McCall’s “Convoy” (1976) became a number one hit.Īll this popularity actually helped bring about its own demise. Television also featured the CB via shows like Dukes of Hazzard, Movin’ On (1974) and BJ and the Bear. Numerous trucker movies flooded the theaters, all prominently spotlighting the CB (Convoy, Smokey & the Bandit, Coast to Coast, etc.). And it didn’t take long for the popular media to capitalize on the craze. People got to know each other anonymously, used a fake name, and developed their own culture and language. It was only a matter of time before their colorful means of communication captured the public interest. Well, it was around this time that America became fascinated with the blue-collar lifestyle, and nothing epitomized the fad more than truckers – they were the cowboys of the 70s, wild and free, answering to nobody. Truckers started making up their own handles and things got interesting. However, once the CB became widely used on the interstates throughout the US, all rules were thrown out the window. As novel as this seems, just a few decades ago there was another trendy lingo sprung from a new technology: CB Slang.Ĭitizen’s Band radio had been around since the 1950s, but you had to be licensed and had to use a registered call sign. THE INTERNET has created its own slang, saturated with efficient abbreviations and a constantly evolving jargon that only insiders know.
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