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| + | (Sources: Star Wars - The Essential Guide to Warfare; http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/List_of_phrases_and_slang) | ||
Latest revision as of 22:19, 16 February 2016
| 3-9 line | A line across a fighter's wings, based on an imaginary clock in which 12 is ahead of a fighter and 6 is behind. The goal of dogfighting is to keep bandits in front of one's 3-9 line. | 
| ACM | Aerial Combat Maneuvering, better known as dogfighting. | 
| Bandit | A hostile fighter or starship. | 
| Big L | Lightspeed barrier. | 
| Bingo | Having enough fuel for a safe return. | 
| Bird | Spaceship. | 
| Bluelined | Disabled by an ion cannon blast. | 
| Blue milk run | An easy hop, an ordinary and uneventful mission. | 
| Bogey | An unidentified fighter or starship. | 
| Bone | A Y-Wing fighter | 
| Bright | A TIE/Advanced fighter. | 
| Bumping | Engaging in ACM. | 
| Burn sky until we see lines | Fly until you get into hyperspace. | 
| Burnout | Spacer slang referring the loss of power in a starship's power plants. | 
| Cargo hold | Spacers' slang for backside, bottom. | 
| Centurion | A pilot with one hundred landings on a carrier or fighter base. | 
| Check your 6 | "Be careful, watch out behind you." | 
| Clear skies | "Be well," a traditional spacer's farewell. | 
| Clutch | A squadron of TIE fighters. | 
| Cold nose | Operating with sensors down. | 
| Connecting the navpoints | A comprehensive attempt at illustration or explanation of a subject. | 
| DIE-wing | A TIE-Wing Ugly, referring to its alarmingly low combat survivability. | 
| Dirt flier | An atmospheric fighter pilot. | 
| Dirtside | On a planet's surface. | 
| Dragship | An Interdictor-class cruiser. | 
| Drift factor | A measure of a pilot's flakiness or inability to follow orders. | 
| Drunken Mynock School of Instruction | The place where one with minimal piloting skills might have bought his or her pilot's license. | 
| Dupe | A TIE Bomber | 
| Easy chair | The pilot's seat in a fighter. | 
| Edge | An A-Wing fighter. | 
| Eyeball | A basic TIE fighter. Often shortened to simply eye. | 
| Fangs out | Eager for a dogfight. | 
| Few starships short of a fleet | Insane. | 
| Final Jump | A euphemism for death, used by spacers. | 
| Flat-hatting | Showing off or engaging in dangerous maneuvres. | 
| Flyboy | A starfighter pilot. | 
| Flying the same vector | Thinking along the same lines. | 
| FTL | Faster than light. | 
| Full DSW | Having enough power for drive, shields, and weapons. | 
| Furball | A hectic dogfight. | 
| G-burp | Spacer slang for a sudden surge from a starship's drive system. | 
| Gain angles | Maneuvre for a better shot in a dogfight. | 
| Get lines | Disengage and jump to hyperspace. | 
| Go black | Head from a planet's atmosphere into space. | 
| Go blue | Head from space into a planet's atmosphere. | 
| Goes away | What an enemy fighter does when you hit it. | 
| Gripe | A mechanical problem. An up gripe is a problem that allows continuing operations; a down gripe does not. | 
| Hangar queen | A fighter that is often unable to fly because it needs repairs, and thus is raided for parts. | 
| Hawk circle | A formation of fighters waiting to land. | 
| Hop | A mission. | 
| How do you plot that course? | A phrase meaning "how did you come to that conclusion?" | 
| HUD | Heads-up display. | 
| Impstar | An Imperial Star Destroyer. | 
| Judy | Comms call indicating you are intercepting a bandit. | 
| Klick | Kilometer. | 
| KM | "Kriffing magic," a pilot's all-purpose explanation for how technology works. | 
| Latch | Get into position to destroy an enemy fighter. | 
| Loud handle | The lever that triggers a fighter's ejection seat. | 
| LTS | "Likely to survive," indicating approval of a pilot's skills. | 
| No décor | "Speak freely," without worrying about rank. | 
| Old Spaceman's Home | Retirement; to a spacer. | 
| Painted | Scanned by sensors. | 
| Peeper | A TIE fighter used for reconnaissance. | 
| Pointer | An X-Wing fighter. | 
| Punching up a jump | Spacer's slang describing the act of entering coordinates into a navigation computer prior to making the jump to lightspeed. | 
| Raising ship | Spacer's slang for leaving a planet in a starship or the act of lifting off. | 
| Roof | A carrier's flight deck. | 
| Reading the g's | Term used by fighter pilots in reference to dialing down an inertial compensator to get a tactile feel for the movements of their ships. | 
| Rocketjock | A starfighter pilot. | 
| SA | Situational awareness. | 
| SD Vic | A Victory-class Star Destroyer | 
| Senth Herf | An admiring assessment of another pilot's abilities. | 
| Set-down | Spacers' slang for the act of landing a starship. | 
| Shock | To hit a bandit with a blast from an ion cannon. | 
| Shocker | An ion cannon. | 
| The Show | ACM; dogfighting. | 
| Skull | A Z-95 Headhunter. | 
| Skyboy | A term used to address starfighter pilots. | 
| Slim | A RZ-1 A-Wing interceptor. | 
| Snubfighter | Small spacecraft like X-wings or TIE Fighters that are seen as expendable. | 
| Spacer | An individual who lives most of his or her life in space. | 
| Spinner | A B-Wing fighter, also known as a cross. | 
| Splash | Shoot down. | 
| Squint | A TIE/ln Interceptor. | 
| Star-hopper | Another term for spacer. | 
| Suicide sled | A starfighter, particularly one with weak shield. | 
| Trip | A TIE Defender. | 
| Ugly | A starfighter made from parts of varying origins. | 
| Vape or vap | Short for "vaporize." Starfighter pilot slang for destroying a target, especially in a dogfight. | 
| Vapebait | A poorly skilled fighter pilot who is an easy target. | 
| Victim | A Victory-class Star Destroyer. | 
| Warp-lagged | Spacer's slang for the feeling of tiredness after traveling in hyperspace. | 
| Wishbone | A BTL Y-Wing starfighter. | 
| Woke up on the wrong side of the starship | Spacer's slang for feeling grumpy, irritable, or to be easily annoyed. | 
| Zero angle | The position behind the stern of a bandit. | 
(Sources: Star Wars - The Essential Guide to Warfare; http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/List_of_phrases_and_slang)

