Appendix talk:Glossary of U.S. Navy slang

The contents of this page are being transwiki'd from U.S. Navy slang. The history is too long to easily move. The edit history will be preserved in Wikipedia in order to comply with the attribution requirements of GFDL. Rossami 04:26, 23 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Note that Wiktionary uses Import, so any Wiktionary admin can import the history. There is no need to do it manually; if you add a transwiki tag on WP, a bot will move the contents to Wiktionary soon after. Dmcdevit·t 05:30, 23 September 2007 (UTC)

Navy slang vs Military slang
Some of the entries here are not unique to the US Navy. This list should be compared to the list at Appendix:Military slang. If the term is in significant inter-service usage, it should probably be added to Military slang and pulled off this list. Rossami 04:40, 23 September 2007 (UTC)

Fi Fi (pronounced like the French "fee fee"): Fuckin' idiot squared.

Reformat underway
Section-by-section formatting. However, will not be checking for redundancy with MilSlang. Nahum Reduta 23:20, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

Line Locker
So what is a "line locker" as in, "The guys in the "Line Locker" can..." ? Thanks -

A locker is basicaly any storage space. Be it tiny or huge they are almost always called a locker. In this case, it is where you store Line, AKA Rope. Herogamer 15:12, 10 August 2010 (UTC)

The "Line Locker" is a reference to a group of command-eligible naval officers within NAVSEA08.50.147.26.108 02:51, 1 April 2014 (UTC)

Shit Hot
I've heard this term a lot- hope it gets added to the list. 209.99.19.8 17:59, 21 January 2011 (UTC)

NONBFN
Not Only No But Fuck No

Ship nicknames
Nearly every boat, ship, and occasionally squadron, will have an alternative name, either self named, or "earned." It does not make sense to put them here, should be a different list. -- Waterproof blue


 * Hm, OK. What would be a good (title for a) page to move them to? Appendix:List of slang names for U.S. Navy units? Or it could be a subpage of this page, such as Appendix:Glossary of U.S. Navy slang/Unit names. - -sche (discuss) 20:27, 6 December 2013 (UTC)

Either way would be OK. The Glossary as a subpage would seem to be more convenient. Waterproof blue (talk) 00:51, 4 January 2014 (UTC)

Anchor link crashes iPhone browsers
On the iPhone, in both Safari and Chrome, clicking the letter "E" link at the top of the page takes the user out of the browser (I assume that means that the browser is crashing; not sure).

Not all of the links fail in this way, and I haven't seen the failure on Desktop browsers, but the "E" link (at least) on Chrome or Safari (at least) on iPhone causes this problem *every time*. I've done it several times, on both browsers.

WikiAlto (talk) 02:19, 5 January 2015 (UTC)

Port and Starboard
...as in a duty rotation of two crews. In the description of the shipboard routine, don't crew members also have to stand watches in addition to their regular duties? Wasn't in the USN but I live in Norfolk and have heard guys bitching about this...Wikkileaker (talk) 19:54, 6 April 2017 (UTC)

Additional term
"Liberty turns". On ships with propellers, ship speed is determined by propeller speed, in revolutions per minute (RPM), referred to as "turns". The bridge might order, say, 209 RPM for 25 knots. If the ship is headed to port (especially home port!), the engineer might open the throttle a bit more than would be needed for 209 RPM - say 212 to 215 RPM. (Too much more, and the bridge will clamp down and remind the engineers to maintain ordered speed). The "extra" revolutions are referred to as "liberty turns".

Coasties
Really, not in here?. A term for the US Coast Guard that drag us all over the Gulf of Mexico for LEO Ops (Law Enforcement Operations), normally Drug Interdiction. We get a Coast Guard medal for participating too! (YSK: US Navy ships cannot perform LEO Ops, but if the Coasties raise their flags on any US Naval vessel, we [temporarily] become US Coast Guard personnel and our ship is governed by Coastie rules [hence the medal], and it last until their flag is stricken down). - BobMGuthrie (talk) 09:17, 7 November 2022 (UTC)