Yukoni Slang

I know, it's not pictures, but I wanted to compile a list of Yukoni slang terms and other vernacular for my own reference.

• Hat (also shiny hat, big hat, fancy hat): An officer, used by non-commissioned members. "Look sharp, the hat's coming."
  
• Black Hat: A commissar, used as above. "Don't turn your back on a black hat."
  
• Little hat: Diminutive of "hat". Used for new or inexperienced junior officers, imply a level of derision or disrespect. "The little hat is going to get us all killed."
  
• Old man: Commanding officer. "The old man knows what he's doing."
  
• Chief: See "old man".
• Spike: bayonet "Get your spikes on!"
  
• Rollers: Tanks, armoured fighting vehicles. "The rollers will take out that bunker."
  
• Sit 'n shoots: Support weapons and their crews. "The sit-'n'-shoots will cover our advance."
  
• Screamers: Multiple missile launchers (local manufacture Thudd Guns) "We'll advance behind a roller screamer barrage."
  
• DFA: Death From Above, artillery and artillery barrages. "Enemy DFA has been hammering our positions."
  
• Hogs: Tank drivers.
  
• Smokers: Artillery crewmen
• Brew: Root-based beer commonly issued to the ranks
• Heel and toe parade: Cross-country march. "We'll make a heel and toe parade to waypoint alpha tonight."
  
• The Rain: Drop Troopers. "The Rain have been cutting enemy supply lines."
  
• Heavies: Storm Troopers, and similarly-equipped Heavy Infantry.
  
• Scooters: Mounted infantry
• FISH, fishing: Fighting In Someone's Hab, urban fighting. "Spikes on, lads, we're going fishing."
  
• Mud patrol: Trench warfare
• PBI: Poor bloody infantry
• Mercies: Medical corpsmen. "You'll be fine, we're leaving you to the Mercies."
  
• Indigs: The native Yukoni tribesmen.
  
• Sneaks: Racist term for scouts and snipers of Indig descent.
• Cabotines: Pre-Praetorian settlers of the Yukoni worlds; a ethnically and linguistically distinct sub-population.
  
• Carrots: Racist term for Cabotines.
• Yucks: Racist term for Yukoni of Praetorian descent, used by Cabotines.
  
• Reds, serges: Dress uniforms.
• Ponies: Derogatory infantryman's term for cavalry. "We do the work, ponies get the glory."
  
• Muds: Derogatory cavalryman's term for infantry. "Tell the muds to clear the path so we can win this war."
  
• Plate: Standard-issue Yukoni helmet. "Get your plate on, soldier!"
  
• Homestead: Death, dying, the grave. "He's back to the homestead."
• The Outside: Everywhere that isn't within the Yukoni Dominion. "I've been outside for twelve years now."
  
• Outsider: A non-Yukoni. "He's not so bad for an Outsider."
  
• Shirts: Navy, naval officers.
  
• Rats: Naval ratings.
• Scopes: snipers
• Creeps: Yukoni special forces, especially the Special Mountain Corps.
• Mud bath: Trench raid, or more generally to any offensive maneuver in trench warfare. "We're getting a mud bath tonight."
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I'll probably add more as I think of them...