PRESIDENT BARRY ASC Owner's Manual page 36

CB LANGUAGE
Advertising : Flashing lights of police car
Back off : Slow down
Basement : Channel 1
Base station : A CB set in fixed location
Bear : Policeman
Bear bite : Speeding fine
Bear cage : Police station
Big slab : Motorway
Big 10-4 : Absolutely
Bleeding : Signal from an adjacent channel
Blocking the channel : Pressing the PTT switch without talking
Blue boys : Police
Break : Used to ask permission to join a
Breaker : A CBer wishing to join a channel
Clean and green : Clear of police
Cleaner channel : Channel with less interference
Coming in loud and proud : Good reception
Doughnut : Tyre
Down and gone : Turning CB off
Down one : Go to a lower channel
Do you copy? : Understand?
DX : Long distance
Eighty eights : Love and kisses
Eye ball : CBers meeting together
Good buddy : Fellow CBer
Hammer : Accelerator
Handle : CBer's nickname
Harvey wall banger : Dangerous driver
How am I hitting you? : How are you receiving me?
Keying the mike : Pressing the PTT switch without talking
Kojac with a kodak : Police radar
Land line : Telephone
Lunch box : CB set
Man with a gun : Police radar
Mayday : SOS
interfering with the transmission
conversation
Meat wagon
Midnight shopper
Modulation
Negative copy
Over your shoulder
Part your hair
Pull your hammer back
Rat race
Rubberbander
Sail boat fuel
Smokey dozing
Smokey with a camera
Spaghetti bowl
Stinger
Turkey
Up one
Wall to wall
What am I putting to you? : Please give me an S-meter reading
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: Ambulance
: Thief
: Conversation
: No reply
: Right behind you
: Behave yourself - police ahead
: Slow down
: Congested traffic
: New CBer
: Wind
: Parked police car
: Police radar
: Interchange
: Antenna
: Dumb CBer
: Go up one channel
: All over/everywhere