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A

• ABC - All Been Changed
• ABCBA - All Been Changed Back Again
• ATS - Anti Trapping Squad ie. a mate can see you off by thinning a girl out, you were trying to trap

B

• bag off - to have sex, (usually with a woman who is too drunk to confirm it)
• bag rat - packed lunch invariably containing salt & vinegar crisps and a rotten cornish pasty.
• banjo - A fried egg sandwich.
• battle bowl - combat helmet
• beasting/beast - give someone a hard time, serious physical training
• basha - improvised low mounted shelter in the field, mainly used by 'pongo's'
• bezzy - best as in "bezzy oppo"
• bimble - to walk at a casual pace
• bite - to fool somebody into doing or believing something stupid
• bit of kit - someone who is honking in everything he does
• bivvy - tactical camping positions - from bivouac
• black maskers - thick black masking tape that is the all in one answer to service DIY
• Blues - Royal Marines Number 1 (Dress Blue)uniform
• bone - a stupid thing to do or a stupid person
• boogie - (pronounced boo-jee) - similar to dhobie but applied to equipment ie a nod might be pinged to give the heads a quick boogie as a (very mild) punishment.
• booty/ bootneck - Royal Marine
• bottom field - the assault course at CTC where the recruits spend most of their time being beasted
• bowser - large container of water, also reference to a gronk ie. spunk bowser
• bundy - too bundy from the film ted bundy, too totally lose control like flash but worse
• buzz - a rumour, sometimes true though usually not

C

• cabin - one's room or accommodation
• casevac - short for casualty evacuation; US forces use medevac
• chad - something that is considered 'cheesy' or low quality
• chad valley - a piece of equipment the is prone to failure (most pusser's kit)
• Cherry Berry - A member of the Airborne Regiment, from their red berets.
• chit - request form
• civvy - civilian
• cluster fuck - very badly organised
• colours/colour Stripey - colour sergeant
• crab - member of the RAF - from crabfat, the nickname for a blue-grey grease used by sailors, since RAF uniforms are that colour. The RAF as a whole are known as crab air
• CTCRM/CTC - the Commando Training Centre Royal Marines at Lympstone in Devon where all ranks of the Royal Marines undergo their basic training. Usually abbreviated to CTC.

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D

• dhobi - to wash or washing - from Hindi
• dhobi dust - washing powder
• dhobi run - a trip to the launderette
• dig out/dig out blind - To make an all out effort
• dip - come up short or suffer a misfortune
• dip out - to lose out on something
• dit - story
• Dog and Basket - The Lion and Crown insignia.
• drip - complain.
• DL - Drill Leader - a marine who has specialised as a drill instructor
• DS - Directing Staff
• Dutchy's - a vendor of burgers at CTCRM. Arguably the greatest burger van on the planet.

E

• essence - pretty, or beautiful vision of beauty (mostly about females)
• endex - the order given to end an exercise or end it early, also used to halt a conversation, lesson or activity
• eyebrows - offering something as Genuine and offering your eyebrows to be shaved off if you are found to be lying

F

• flash - to lose one's temper
• flapping - panicking
• foofoo powder - pussers footpowder
• fart sack - sleeping bag

G

• galley -The Junior Ranks Dinning Hall
• gash - sub-standard or rubbish; also rubbish as a noun (the 'gash bag' is the rubbish bag)
• gash hand - a marine with no particular job or SQ ie "get a couple of gash hands and clean the heads"
• geeps/jeeps - RM term for the L7 General Purpose Machine Gun (the famous Belgian 7.62 belt fed FN-MAG).
• gen - the truth (genuine)
• gen dit - Genuine story
• gimp/gimpy - See Geeps/Jeeps above.
• Girl's Time - A Cadet Officer's or Apprentice Marine's (16-18 yrs old) service, since they are forbidden to go on Active Service.
• Globe & Buster - 1) The Corps Crest. 2)The journal of the Royal Marines The Globe and Laurel
• go outside - To leave the Corps
• gobshite - Someone who is vocal and often speaks out of turn with little knowledge on the subject
• gob off - see gobshite
• goffers - 1) Cold fizzy drinks 2) A big wave 3) Big punches
• gongs - medals
• gopping - Something that is really horrible "That kebab was gopping, it made me ill"
• grav (gravel belly) - derogatory name for a marine from a rifle company
• green lid - green beret
• grip - a kit bag with two carrying handles
• gronk - a female who likes to get round bootnecks
• grot - accommodations
• grot bag - Sleeping bag.
• gucci - A piece of kit that is really good and new
• Guz - Plymouth, from the WW1 radio ID letters for the port GUZ
• gulpers - A quantity of drink somewhere between 'Sippers' and 'Sandy Bottoms'

H

• hanging out - mental or physical tiredness, exhausted
• harry von... - to emphasise a point. ie "it was harry von icers"
• heads - naval term for latrines
• heartbreak lane - the lane leading back into CTC that forms the final part of the endurance course and 9 mile speed march Commando Tests.
• honking - very dirty
• hoofing - good ie " hoofing scran"

I

• icers -cold weather ie "it was icers on sentry last night"
• inserted - to get into bed

J

• jolly - a free outing
• jollies - the junior ranks bar at CTCRM
• junglies - RN helicopter pilots who fly Marines to their insertion point

K

• KFS - Knife/Fork/Spoon
• Kit muster - A personal kit inspection

L

• lash up - to treat someone, also describes a cock-up
• limers - lime or lemonade drink
• loafing - hanging around aimlessly, to leave something out that should be put away
• Lovats - Royal Marines Number 2 (Dress Green)uniform.

M

• Make and mend - early finish on Wednesday or Friday afternoons
• Minging - Very drunk

N

• N.A.A.F.I - services shop
• neaters - undiluted pusser's rum
• Nelson's blood - rum
• Neptune's Bodyguard - Ships Marines
• Ninja - Something that is very difficult or hard, A Ninja PT session
• nod (noddy) - an RM recruit before passing Commando course, in this phase they wear a blue beret, or the more tactical 'cap comforter' once they enter the commando stage of training, and the expression is thought to derive from the bend forward or not that recruits tend to do rather than keeping their back vertical in drill manoeuvres during early training. Also reputed to stem from their tendency to execute the 'nodding dog' head manoeuvre during their training lectures, and any other period of training when they are not being 'beasted'.
• Nutty - Chocolate devoured avidly by Marines requiring an energy fix.

O

• oppo - best mate
• oggin - the sea (he fell into the oggin), also water in general (get some oggin down your neck)

P

• pass out - graduate Royal Marine Commando training, receive your lid
• PIG - officer, acronym for ‘Polite Intelligent Gentleman’, used with heavy irony
• ping/ pinged - found out, or 'volunteered' - e.g. 'pinged for a duchy run', 'pinged for sigs'
• pit - bed, bed space or bunk
• Percy Pongo, Percy - Member of the British Army (from their supposed smell).
• plums - Someone who hasnt bagged off in a while ie. blackwell is major plums
• pompey - Portsmouth.
• Pongo - See Percy Pongo above.
• proffed - goods acquired by dubious methods from the establishment rather than another marine
• pusser - 1)The Royal Navy/Royal Marines. 2) Official issue. 3) Instructor.
• pusser's charger - service issue bike
• pusser's gold - rust
• pusser's planks - service issue skiis
• pusser's ice cream - lard
• pusser's apple - onion
• PTI - Physical Training Instructor
• PW - Platoon Weapon or Platoon Weapons Instructor

Q

• Q.R.s - Queen's Regulations
• queens - Used to convince someone that you are not getting them on a bite

R

• racing snake - someone who runs fast
• recce - generally used throughout British forces for reconnaissance, US forces use 'recon'
• redders - hot weather (the opposite of icers)
• red pigs - hot weather
• rock ape - a member of the RAF Regiment
• run ashore - short leave with clear naval connection, ideally to involve large amounts of drinking, fighting and 'getting to know the local female population'
• Rupert - officer

S

• sadders/sad on - upset or annoyed
• sance - short for essence.i.e-she is sance mate.(originated from the ranks of air defence troop royal marines).
• scran - food or a meal
• scran bag - collection point for loose bits of kit on a ship. A small fine is paid before retrieval
• shiny arse - someone in an administrative position
• Ship- Shipmate. A mate. pal, close friend.
• Sick Bay - medical Centre
• Sick Bay Ranger - Someone who spends a lot of time off sick
• sippers - a sip of a drink
• SITREP - Situation Report
• skeg - a quick look
• slug - sleeping bag
• snurgle - to sneak or creep in or out of sight
• standeasy - a tea break taken during the morning and the afternoon
• spin a dit - to tell a story
• sprog - new/inexperienced marine
• SQ - Specialist Qualification. Royal Marines can specialize after basic training in a large number of skills earning him extra reposibilities and pay. Each qualification is usually denoted by an acronym and their level of qualification. As an example, three levels of the Assault Engineers SQ are AE3, AE2, AE1 from lowest to highest
• stacks - a male who is bagging off all the time, ie.jay and ronnie are stacks
• stripey - sergeant
• swamp - to urinate - go for a swamp, swamp the bed etc

T

• thin out - disappear, disperse or go away quickly
• trap - to engage or chat up females, e.g.'let's thin out now for a run ashore, have a few wets and then go out on the trap'
• thrashed/thrashing - same as beasting
• threaders - fed up, likely to be 'dripping'
• tankie - member of the heavy weapons branch

U

• ulu - jungle (from Malay "hulu" - literally upriver, used to refer to backwater areas.

V

• vittled - to be shot at, or to shoot at. 'we vittled them up'

W

• Waz - Slightly better than "hoofing"
• wet/whet - a warm beverage such as a cup of tea or coffee or an alcoholic drink
• wrap - to give up
• wrap hand - somebody who gives up easily
• wooly pully - green issue jumper

X

Y

• yomp - move with heavy packs and weapons across country, the Army equivalent is 'tab'
• yaffel - to eat
• yaffeling spanners - KFS - knife fork spoon

Z

• Zap - To shoot or be shot
• Zeds/(ZZZZZZZZ's) - To get some sleep