SWE Slang

Slang used on the SWE boards:

D

 * Dren
 * Vulgar term equivalent to "shit", or an unwanted substance or act.
 * Example: "Same dren, different planet.", "What is this dren?", and "Oh, great, yeah, we have to put up with this dren again."

A

 * As slippery as a greased Dug
 * Untrustworthy.

B

 * Bantha fodder (or Bantha poodoo in Huttese)
 * Meaning Bantha food, an insult; Suggestion that someone is dead or soon to be dead; "As good as dead."
 * Blast!
 * An interjection, the equivalent of "shoot!".
 * Blinking
 * An expletive.
 * Blue Milk Run
 * An ordinary and uneventful mission.
 * Brix
 * An expletive. E.g. "What the brix are you doing here?"
 * Bucket Head
 * A Rebel term for an Imperial pilot or Stormtrooper
 * Burnout
 * Spacer slang referring the loss of power in a starship's power plants.
 * By the Force!
 * An exclamation.

C

 * Calibrating my Deece
 * Slang for sexual intercourse or masturbation.
 * Captain Obvious
 * Slang for someone who is oblivious to an obvious situation.
 * Case Yellow
 * Military code meaning light resistance.
 * Chaos take me!
 * Mild expletive suggesting the subject is doing something they know is unwise.
 * Charge up her loading ramp
 * Slang for sexual intercourse.
 * Chuba!
 * Huttese translated as "You!" or "Hey you!". Literally, Huttese for an animal similar to a real-world frog or toad.
 * Clear Skies
 * Phrase used to wishing someone a good journey.
 * Codger
 * A whimsical term for an elderly man.
 * Connect-disconnect
 * Slang term used to describe a One night stand.
 * Coot
 * A disrespectful term for an elderly man.
 * A credit for your thoughts
 * Phrase meaning "What's on your mind?" or "Tell me what you're thinking". Equivalent to the real-world English phrase "A penny for your thoughts."
 * Crink
 * Curse, as in "go crink yourself."
 * Cut the phobium
 * Phrase meaning "stop lying". Equivalent to the real-world English phrase "cut the crap."

D

 * Damn
 * An expletive used to express anger, annoyance, disgust, etc.
 * Do garrals have freckles?
 * A phrase equivalent to 'Does night follow day?'

E

 * E chu ta!
 * A Huttese insult. Ben Burtt says that it's not really appropriate to translate.
 * Emperor's Black Bones!
 * An exclamation.

F

 * Farkled
 * An adaptable expletive, as in, "You just got farkled.", or used to describe any situation which was bleak or disastrous, as in, "We're farkled."
 * Fill Yer Boots
 * A phrase meaning "Eat your fill"
 * Final Jump
 * A euphemism for death, used by spacers.
 * Flyboy
 * A slang term for a starfighter pilot.
 * Frack
 * An expletive. An homage to the Battlestar Galactica sci-fi series where the term "frack" originally appeared. Also frakkin'.
 * Frag
 * An adaptable expletive, approximating to "fuck" in English.[53] It can also be short for "fragmentation", as in "frag grenade".
 * Frell
 * A curse. An homage to the Farscape sci-fi series where the term "frell" originally appeared.
 * Furball
 * An insulting way to describe or address a Wookiee.

G

 * Geezer
 * A disrespectful term for an elderly man.
 * Gentlebeing
 * Version of "gentleman" used to describe members of all genders and species.
 * Give a Psadan's patoot
 * Phrase that meant "to care about something", however usually said as "didn't give" or "don't give a Psadan's patoot".
 * Glitbiter
 * A drug addict.
 * Glowstick
 * A lightsaber
 * Grease the servos
 * A phrase meaning "to bribe".
 * Green as goblin moss
 * Naïve, inexperienced.

H

 * Happy juice
 * An alcoholic beverage
 * Haul jets
 * Spacer slang for departing an area as fast as possible.
 * Healing juice
 * Phrase used to describe bacta or kolto.
 * Heck
 * Mild expletive, usually to replace "hell".
 * Heel-and-toe express
 * Slang for a long walk, march or run.
 * Hell
 * Expletive. See Chaos.
 * Home free
 * A term meaning "safe".
 * Hook up a power coupling (or Hook up a power conduit)
 * Slang for sexual intercourse.
 * How do you plot that course?
 * A phrase meaning "how did you come to that conclusion?"
 * Hurt vector
 * Slang for a person who seems to attract misfortune to himself as well as others around him.

I

 * Impstar Deuce
 * Slang term often used by Rebel/New Republic pilots when referring to an Imperial Star Destroyer Mark II.
 * Into the nexu's den
 * Into a strongly defended area.

J

 * Jabba
 * A slang term used as a verb meaning "to deceive someone, leaving them in danger."
 * Jet Juicer
 * An alcoholic.
 * Jumped-up Corellian dirt farmer
 * An insult.

K

 * Kill two birds with one stone
 * A term that means to finish two objectives in one move.
 * Koochoo or Koochu
 * Huttese for "idiot".

L

 * Laserbrain
 * An insult, as in "I don't know where you get your delusions from, laserbrain.".
 * LED
 * Acronym for "light-emitting diode."
 * Local Rocket-Fuel
 * Slang for any home-brewed alcoholic beverage.
 * Lorda
 * Huttese title of respect.

M

 * Madclaw
 * Term for a Wookiee who has lashed out against another Wookiee with their claws.
 * Mandos
 * Slang term for Mandalorians.
 * Mudcrutch
 * An insult.
 * Mynock
 * to scavenge or steal from another, to profit from another's accomplishment or loot from another's kill (e.g., "someone comes along and mynocks your kill")

N

 * Nerfherder
 * A legitimate occupation on the planet Alderaan; an insult among Alderaanian nobility. Also a general insult.
 * Not firing on all thrusters
 * Not entirely sane.

O

 * Old timer
 * A term used by Han Solo to describe or address old men such as Don-Wan Kihotay.
 * Out of the woods
 * A phrase meaning "escaped from danger"

P

 * Piffer
 * Slang for an attractive woman.
 * Poodoo
 * A Huttese expletive for excrement; loosely translates to "fodder"; an equivalent of feces. Used often as a swear word.
 * Punching up a jump
 * The act of entering coordinates into a navigation computer prior to making the jump to lightspeed.

R

 * Raising ship
 * Raising ship: Leaving a planet in a starship or the act of lifting off.
 * Rankweed sucker
 * An insult.
 * Red Zero
 * Military term for requesting immediate extraction.
 * Recce
 * Short for 'reconnaissance'
 * RV
 * Short for rendezvous. Can also be used to refer to the location of a rendezvous or as a verb meaning 'to rendezvous'

S

 * Scratch gravel!
 * A phrase meaning "go away!"
 * Screaming like a stuck mynock
 * To scream or shriek in pain, loudly.
 * Set-down
 * Slang for the act of landing a starship.
 * Share coordinates
 * A metaphor as in 'in league with' or 'connected to'
 * Sith happens
 * A slang phrase used as an observation that life is full of imperfections.[79] Obviously a play on "Shit happens".
 * Sithspawn
 * An expletive used throughout the galaxy, originating from Corellia.[34] Can also refer to a specific kind of creature mutated or created by Sith alchemy. Most likely means the same thing as hellspawn.
 * Sithspit
 * A term equivalent to "shit" or "crap".
 * Sitting mynock
 * A vulnerable target.
 * Skrag
 * A Corellian expletive.
 * Slimesucker
 * Derogatory term used by Han Solo to describe Boba Fett, possibly of spacer origin.
 * Sleemo
 * A Huttese insult, pronounced slay-mo, and translating as "slimeball"
 * Smeg
 * A curse. An homage to the Red Dwarf sci-fi series where the term "smeg" originally appeared.
 * Space
 * Slang term for killing a person by exposing them to the vacuum of space, usually by launching them out an airlock
 * Spacer
 * Slang term used to describe individuals who live most of their lives in space.
 * Spun a loop pastry
 * Made something sound more dramatic than it is.
 * To stir up a mynocks' nest
 * To do something that causes even more trouble. Equivalent to the English phrase 'to stir up a hornets' nest'.
 * Stoopa
 * Huttese for "fool".
 * Sucks void
 * expression describing circumstances as welcome as a pressure leak.

T

 * Tee-my or TMAI
 * "Throw Money At It"; slang used by builders and mechanics.

V

 * Vape
 * Short for "vaporize". Starfighter pilot slang for destroying a target, especially in a dogfight.

W

 * Walking Carpet
 * Derogatory term for a Wookiee, referring to its shaggy coat.
 * Whingeing jimmies
 * Slang for being frightened. "It gives me the whingeing jimmies."
 * Wild bantha chase
 * A futile search. Equivalent to "wild goose chase" in English.

Y

 * You'll find my boot up your exhaust port
 * Equivalent to "you'll find my boot up your rear-end." or "I'll kick your ass."
 * You-buh or UABH
 * "Use a Bigger Hammer"; slang used by builders and mechanics.