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CB Language
Typically a special slang is used in CB radio. Some special terms originate, for instance, from
amateur radio or the professional radio communication, other expressions stand for periphrases
or abbreviations:
Advertising
Flashing lights of police car
Back off
Slow down
Basement
Channel 1
Base station
A CB set in fixed location
Bear
Policeman
Bear bite
Speeding fine
Bear cage
Police station
Big slab
Motorway
Big 10-4
Absolutely
Bleeding
Signal from an adjacent channel interfering with the transmission
Blocking the channel
Pressing the PTT switch without talking
Blue boys
Police
Break
Used to ask permission to join a conversation
Breaker
A CBer wishing to join a channel
Clean and green
Clear of police
Cleaner channel
Channel with less interference
Coming in loud and proud Good reception
Doughnut
Tyre
Down and gone
Turning CB off
Down one
Go to a lower channel
Do you copy?
Understand?
DX
Long distance
Eighty eights
Love and kisses
Eye ball
CBers meeting together
Good buddy
Fellow CBer
Hammer
Accelerator
Handle
CBers nickname
Harvey wall banger
Dangerous driver
How am I hitting you?
How are you receiving me?
Keying the mike
Pressing the PTT switch without talking
Kojac with a kodak
Police radar
Land line
Telephone
Lunch box
CB set
Man with a gun
Police radar
Mayday
SOS
Meat wagon
Ambulance
Midnight shopper
Thief
Modulation
Conversation
Negative copy
No reply
Over your shoulder
Right behind you
Part your hair
Behave yourself - police ahead
Pull your hammer back
Slow down
Rat race
Congested traffic
Rubberbander
New CBer
Sail boat fuel
Wind
Smokey dozing
Parked police car
Smokey with a camera
Police radar
Spaghetti bowl
Interchange
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