Fighter Pilot Slang

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 d�cor	"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)