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SSB
: Single Side Band
SWR
: Standing Wave Ratio
SWL
: Short Wave Listening
SW
: Short Wave
TX
: CB Transceiver
UHF
: Ultra High Frequency
USB
: Upper Side Band
VHF
: Very High Frequency
CB LANGUAGE
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
: CBer’s 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
Stinger
: Antenna
Turkey
: Dumb CBer
Up one
: Go up one channel
Wall to wall
: All over/everywhere
What am I putting to you?
: Please give me an S-meter reading
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