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Posted by the New Omaha Vehicular Association, December 07, 2009
Reprinted by the Seattle Washington Autoduel Team, February 20, 2010
Updated February 20, 2010




A few of the terms in this list have been replaced with the word [DELETED] because of questionable content. The original terms can still be found on NOVA Web site. SWAT enjoys games of vehicular and pedestrian carnage (especially the Carmageddon series) but it prefers to avoid negative discussions about individuals or humor involving some biological functions.


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Duel Slang's Revenge
by Norman McMullen


Yes, back by popular demand! Duel slang, the slang language of Car Wars. Anyone having any suggestions for future duel slang articles can be sent to The Space Gamer (really tells you how old this article is, doesn't it?) or Norman McMullen.


Ye Olde Duel Slang

See "Truckers' Terminology and CB Slang (Circa 2033)" from Truck Stop: A Car Wars Roleplaying Supplement.


New Duel Slang

Contributers: Tim Jacques, Jay Chladek, John Schuncke, and Norman McMullen.

Ramloser: a duellist who knows he's going to lose and rams the winning duellist to make sure no one wins.

Pointgrabber: a duellist who goes after the easy points in a point-based arena to build a sizable lead over the other duellists.

Pinball: a hovercraft. Also refers to a hovercraft's unmaneuverability or an out-of-control hovercraft. Can also refer to a hovercraft pilot.

Firecrackers: rocket boosters or jump jets.

Junk Surprise: junk or debris with mines or some other hazard hidden under it.

French Air Force: microplanes or mincroplane crew.

Rotorhead: a duellist who likes helicopters.

Popcorn: pedestrians that have been run over, so named because of the popping sound they make.

Hood ornament: a cyclist who becomes a part of the vehicle that killed him.

Mall Zombies: a duellist who drives around endlessly in a parking lot in search of a parking space.

Bug Killers: anti-pedestrian weapons.

Bugs: pedestrians in general.

[DELETED]: anything that goes beyond the laws of physics, but is perfectly feasible in the game. Example: doing a tight bend at 80 mph and not losing control. Or taking a hairpin at over 200 mph with no problem. Sometimes called Rulebuster or Infinite Improbabilty Maneuvers.


Well, so much for this article of Duel Slang. Look for future articles of Duel Slang.
 
Drive Offensively!



The Nightmessenger
Vol. 3, No. 1
Spring 2039


Crunch and Munch: A ram kill that confettis the victim's vehicle (Jay Chladek).

Crash and Burn: A fiery crash (Norman McMullen).

Manwhich: A pedestrian between two cars, usually resulting in no more pedestrian (Don Viner).

Andreic: Talking a lot, but saying nothing while in a bad temper (Cliff Christiansen).

Hirtising: Lobby to get your way, and leaving if you don't (Cliff Christensen).

Tankmobiles: A heavily-armored vehicle (Mike Montgomery).

High Rollers: Cargo that is highly prized by thieves, like weapons, gas, and electronics (Tim Jacques).

Re-Run: Someone who has been cloned one to many times (Tim Jacques).

Highway Darwinism: A belief that the road belongs to the car with the biggest guns (Tim Jacques).

Laser Brain: Someone who favors laser weapons (Tim Jacques).

Can Opener: Ramplate (Tim Jacques).

Wheeleater: Someone who consistently shoots at tires (Tim Jacques).

Eggbeater: Helicopter.

The Equalizer: Weapons that give pedestrians a chance against vehicles.

A Murphy: Rolling the worst possible roll on a die, usually a one. "Murphies" is used if it occurs on two dice. "Half- Murphy" if only one of two dice is Murphy (Norman McMullen).

[DELETED]: A duellist that frequently avoids combat.
 


The Nightmessenger
Vol. 3, No. 2
Summer 2039
 

Paper Tiger: A vehicle with heavy weapons but low armor values. Usually destroyed in one turn of combat. (Norman McMullen)

Road Toad: A player who annoys the other players and duelmaster with senseless questions or talking about a subject that has no bearing on the game. A player you wish was a toad on the road so you could put them out of your misery. (Ted Hunter)

Slaydoe/Serious Putty: Plastique. (Mike Hirtes)

Street Pizza: The description of the remains of a pedestrian either hit by a car or larger vehicle or vehicular weapons. (Mike Hirtes)

God Clone: A character with +5 bonuses in all skills even though it's a new character or a clone of a below-average character. (Norman McMullen)

Drive-Through/Drive-Thru: A ram in which the rammer destroys everything from one side to the other and rolls through the hole he made. (Carl Rassmussen)

Suicycle: A cyclist that takes on larger vehicles alone.
 


The Nightmessenger
Vol. 3, No. 3
Fall 2039
 

Car-Toon: A merge of the games Car Wars and Toon. It was created by NOVA.

Hit and Smash: The description of a hit-and-run by a monster truck.

Mr. Congeniality: [DELETED]

Aerated: The process in which a vehicle is shot through, making it swiss cheese.

Blur: A high speed vehicle.

Ramloser: Someone who knows he can't win the duel, so he rams one of the leaders, usually destroying both of them in the process.

Shaken, not stirred: A roll in which the crew is shaken up but not injured.

Dud: A duellist not known for his intelligence.

Slug Thrower: Any weapon that shoots bullets.

Fly Swatter: Stinger missile.

Buzzard: A duellist who makes his living killing wounded or helpless vehicles.

Seat of Salvation: An ejection seat. The slang phrase came from a southern preacher who was an autoduellist in the Dixie Circuit.

Crispy Critter: Any pest that gets charred by flame weapons.

Death from Above: A kill by weapons fire (or in some cases a ram) that goes through the top of a vehicle.

Throttle Jockey. A duellist which uses jet-powered vehicles.

The David and Goliath Syndrome: A philosophy in which a smaller vehicle goes up against a larger vehicle and wins.

Drive-In: A ram in which the rammer becomes a part of the ramee.

Point grabber: When using a point system in an arena, in which some of the duellists go for the easiest points first to build up a good lead on the others.
 


The Nightmessenger
Vol. 3, No. 4
Winter 2039


All new and soon to be published in The Space Gamer. Anyone wishing to contribute to Duel Slang may send them to NOVA.

French Air Force - microplanes or microplane crews.

Junk Surprise - junk or debris with mines or some other hazard hidden under it.

Firecrackers - rocket boosters or jump jets.

Pinball - hovercraft, because of their uncontrolability, or an uncontrolled hovercraft. Sometimes refers to hovercraft pilots.

Rotorhead - a duellist who likes helicopters.

Popcorn - pedestrians that are run over, so named because of the popping sound they make as they're crushed.

Hood Ornament - a cyclist who become one with the vehicle that killed him.

Bug Killers - anti-pedestrian weapons.

Mall Zombies - a duellist who drives around endlessly in a parking lot in search of a parking place.

Bugs - pedestrians in general.

[DELETED] - anything that goes beyond the laws of physics, but is perfectly feasible in the game. Examples: doing a tight bend at 80 mph and not losing control. Taking a hairpin turn at over 200 mph without a problem. Sometimes called Rulebusters or Infinite Improbability Maneuvers.

Swiss Navy - boats or boat crews.

Bronze - local police.

Street Jockeys - cycle gangs.

Road Kill - any animal killed by a vehicle while trying to cross the street.

Fish - a torpedo.

It - anything undescribable or too weird to be comprehended. Example: a van with a tank gun or the sudden appearance of a tank on a quiet road.

Goody Two Shoes - a road samaritan.

John Generic or the Unknown Duellist - an unnamed character or starting character.



The Nightmessenger
Vol. 4, No. 1
Spring 2040 


And now more duelling slang for those frustrated duellists out there.

Undead: Any vehicle that gets back into a duel after surrendering. An unhonorable duellist.

Crackle, Crackle: The sound of burning cars and drivers.

Ramhead: A duellists who loves ramplates and ram tactics.

Squash: What's left after a monster truck gets tired of sitting in a traffic jam.

Dime-A-Dozen: Pedestrian kills in a mall.

Frisbee: Bouncing a hovercraft between two or more large objects.

Sore-Winner: A duellist who resorts to sabotage to win.

Deadbrain: An individual who kibbitz the rules until the other players want to kill him. Also known as a Ruleslawyer.

USO: Unidentified Squished Object.

Fizzle: The sound that a flamethrower makes when its filled with the wrong kind of fuel.

Ohmygod: A statement of surprise made by a duellist as he sees a vehicle or event that's going to kill him. Examples include a monster car, tank, or helicopter attack.

Hortamobile: A vehicle with tons of metal and component armor. Usually armed with an oil gun or other obscure weapon. A vehicle built on the mistaken belief of the "invulnerable" concept.

Beer Grenade: Beer cans or bottles thrown at another vehicle. This usually happens when a duellist runs out of ammo and has an armored beer refrigerator.



The Nightmessenger
Vol. 4, No. 2
Summer 2040 


More duelling slang to bring a smile to your face.


Pinging: The sound that metal armor makes when hit with an area effect weapon.

Beamer: A duellist who uses searchlights.

Sport-Up: Any pickup driver who thinks he's driving a sports car. They usually don't signal when changing lanes and generally act like they own the road.

Lawn Dart: A microplane out of control and heading for the ground.
 


The Nightmessenger
Vol. 4, No. 3
Fall 2040 


More duelling slang to bring a smile to your face.


Death Machine: Any vehicle which causes someone to say "oh my God".

Paper: The remains of a vehicle that has been steamrollered, smashing them flat as a sheet of paper.

Spaceman: Any duellist that mainly relies on lasers for weaponry.

[DELETED]: Rules that don't make sense, logically or gamewise. Example: a propeller-driven airplane going above Mach 1 (see Aeroduel).

Bug Killers: A duellist who likes to kill pedestrians. Alternately, a vehicle specifically designed to do the same. This vehicle has flechette guns or machine guns with anti-personnel ammo and point-defense grenades.

H.A.L.: Any vehicular computer, targeting or otherwise, which malfunctions. Example: Your computer starts saying, "That's not very nice, Dave".



The Nightmessenger
Vol. 4, No. 4
Winter 2040 


Duelling slang that will liven up your next duel.


Flamed: Kill done by a flame weapon.

Zentradei: A large volley of rockets, missiles, or shells fired all at once. If you've seen Macross you'll get the meaning.

Blasted: A kill done by ATGs, BCs, or TGs. The person who made the kill is called Blaster.

Ogre: Any vehicle possessing any armor type or combination of armor that makes it invulnerable to most weapons presently used.

Frog: Any vehicle with jump jets.

Surprise Packages: Any dropped weapon(s) laid under another weapon(s). Example: spikes under a smokescreen or mines under junk.
 


The Nightmessenger
Vol. 5, No. 1
Spring 2041
 

Sunday Driver: Any duellist that has a passenger or gunner.

Glitz: Any vehicle with laser-reflective armor.

Glitzmobile: Limos or any other luxury styled vehicle.

NOVA: Any vehicle which dies in a huge, fiery explosion. As in "he went nova". Alternatively, any vehicle killed by a member of NOVA.

SuperNOVA: As above, but the vehicle involved is oversized.

Idiot-Proof: Any rule, rule supplement or design that [DELETED] can't screw up. Alternately, anything he/she doesn't want to fool around with. The above term is sometimes used to describe something that doesn't exist.



The Nightmessenger
Vol. 5, No. 2
Summer 2041 


The more you duel then this slang is for you. This issue is no exception to the rule. Here goes more for the road.


Knight: A car with metal armor.

Cycle Curse: Any car that rams and runs over any cycle at high speed to kill it.

Poppy Seeds: Explosive spikes; a huge, fiery explosion.

Pointer: A pointer is either a) a person that only goes after points in an arena or b) Mike Montgomery.

Trekkie: A person who uses a Vulcan machine-gun.

Yahtzee: When six or more dice are rolled for damage from weapons or crashes. You sometimes wonder whether or not you're even playing Car Wars anymore.

Out-Staters: Slow drivers, usually slower than the speed limit. Of course, they're usually from out-of-state. Their minds are in the twilight zone big time.

The Psycho Solution: Any action so irrelevant it could be no other way. Named after Psycho himself.



The Nightmessenger
Vol. 5, No. 4
Winter 2041 


This is something we haven't had for an issue. Well, we're back with more slang for duellists who like to keep up with the slang in 2042.
 

Skirt Chaser: A duellist who loves to kill hovercraft.

Cookie Monster: A duellist who loves tire shots.

Micronuke: A 1,000 pound cluster bomb, which is capable of destroying everything on a Car Wars Map Sheet. We know this from personal experience.

Twister: When you have two or more players moving their counters from opposite sides of the table.
 


The Nightmessenger
Vol. 6, No. 1
Spring 2042

 
Our section on duelling slang makes a comeback with some more words to liven up any duel.
 
Shuttlecraft: any streamlined or sloped van, because of their resemblance to a Star Trek shuttlecraft.

Motopsycho: It's not Psycho on a motorcycle. It's the mad Biker from Hell. Any lone biker that takes on whole armies.

'The gift that keeps on giving': ramplates, even though this is contested.

Micronuke: a space or more of either plastique or nitroglycerine. Remember, these are conventional explosives with unconventional damage potentials. (SWAT Webmaster's Note: Should the term "Nanonuke" be used for this definition because "Micronuke" has already been used for a 1,000-lb. cluster bomb?)

[DELETED]: destroying metal armor.
 


The Nightmessenger
Vol. 6, No. 2
Summer 2042


This issue has more slang then we've had for some time. Thanks to Stephane Galley sending some slang from the Driving Tigers/Road Wolves. So sit back and have some chuckles.
 

Battleship Bomber: The BB-17B in Aeroduel. It has the strangest designation in history. Is it a battleship (BB naval term) or a bomber (B air force term)?
 
Brick: A heavily armored car. Examples are the Navigator and Blastfighter.
 
Lightcycle Turns: 90 degree bends done regularly. See the move Tron for an example.
 
Powder-Puff: Any event where the killing of peds is forbidden. (SWORDS term).
 
Vikings: Cyclists, "Bikers" especially.
 
Viking War: Cycle event.
 
Viking Battle: Any event that has a mass of bikers in it.
 
Viking Raid: Peds vs. Bikers event (like Midville).
 



Now from the Flying Tigers Slang Files:
 
Soap: Hovercraft. Anyone who chased a wet soap bar on the bottom of one's bathroom knows why.
 
Soap Opera: Hovercraft convoy.
 
Mosquito: Small, fast, lightly armed and armored vehicle.
 
Bluefly: Police helicopter or any Police vehicle.
 
Dino, Hippo, or Rhino: Any vehicle over 20,000 lbs.
 
T-Rex: Combat truck or RV.
 
Chernobyl: Nuclear power plant.
 
Donut Hunting: Looking for a restaurant.
 
Electron Cafe: Any recharge station.
 
Zoom On: Aim at a specific (usually same) target.
 
Flatliner, Roadkill, Teckel: Flat, aerodynamic vehicle. The last two names are quite insulting.



The Nightmessenger
Vol. 6, No. 3
Fall 2042
 

Groundbeef: The remains of a duellist after a parachute fails to open or other severe impact. Also known as Street Pizza.

Slice and Dice: Shooting up a lightly armored vehicle with a big gun (TG vs. Killer Kart). Alternately shooting a vehicle several times after its armor has been breached.

Jet Jockey: A duellist who uses jet engine cars. Also a jet fighter pilot.

Toothpaste: What's left of a duellist that's been crushed to death while wearing body armor.

Black and Decker: When players are measuring ranges with tape measures.

Moneypit: Any item which eats up money but not space. Examples are carbon-aluminum frames, radarproof and fireproof armor.

Damage Sink: Any item which serves no other useful purpose in a duel except to absorb damage. Examples are armored beer refrigerators and Cargo safes.

Breadcrumbs: Debris.

Harmonic Convergence: Three or more vehicles ramming each other at the same time.

Supertank: Any AFV that weighs more than 100 tons. Such vehicles always have obscenely heavy weapons and armor packages.

Rocket Jock: A duellist who drives a vehicle with a jet or rocket engine.

Sub-Caliber Killers: Division 5 duelling. Also known as 50-Caliber Funnies.

Dreck: The sludge from the bottom of an oil pan or the useless fluid left over when a battery dies. Used as an insult. "Dreck-Face", etc.

MacGyver Move: Any brilliant, spontaneous maneuver or action. Especially those which have beneficial results. Example: taking out a tractor-trailer rig by a critical hit on the driver by a hand weapon.

Nuke: To destroy a target with more force than necessary. Example: a 1,000 lb. bomb hitting a subcompact. In all cases, not even confetti is left.

Brain Grenade: Drinks with high caffeine content in them. Jolt, Mountain Dew, and Pepsi are examples.

Cow Bomb: The smell that blows onto the highway from nearby farms.



The Nightmessenger
Vol. 7, No. 1
Spring 2043 
 

This installment will concentrate on slang for dropped weapons.

Slider: the oil-and-ice dropped weapon combo. A sure loss of control for anyone caught on the stuff.

[DELETED]: using dropped gas weapons.

Diuretic: using excessive amounts of dropped solids and/or liquids. See also [DELETED].

Graftti: the aftermath of using paint weapons.

Grafitti Artist: a duellist who uses paint weapons.



The Nightmessenger
Vol. 7, No. 2
Summer 2043 


Just when you thought it was safe for slang. Wrong again, even more duelslang to liven up that duel.


Leaded: caffinated soft drinks.

Unleaded: non-caffinated soft drinks.

Super leaded: Jolt Cola.

GM Special: a car with a gas engine, volatile weapons and non-fireproof armor.

Chicago typewriter: submachine gun.

Italian football: a small bomb or hand grenade.

Whipit Special: sawed-off shotgun.

Hush Puppy: A silenced hand gun used to kill guard dogs and watchmen.

Football Player: A duellist who used grenades.

Frisbee: A vehicle that fails a control roll in such a fashion that it goes flying/rolling through the air.

Slaughterduel: any duel in which 60% or more of the participants get killed.

Nantucket Slayride: Chasing a large, heavily-armored vehicle (AFV, truck, bus, etc.) with a number of smaller cars.

Square Dancing: two or more consecutive D6 turns.



The Nightmessenger
Vol. 7, No. 5
Winter 2043


This feature makes a return with more duel-oriented slang for everyone.


Ground Pilot: A high-speed car driver

[DELETED]: Any cycle with an acceleration of 15 mph +. Also known as a "bullet-bike".

Free (state) Air Force: Any duellist who rolls or jumps frequently. Example: Jack (of "Jack be nimble, Jack be quick" fame) is a member of the Free Missouri Air Force.



The Nightmessenger
Vol. 8, No. 1
Spring 2044


Armor All: any car with vast amounts of metal armor.

Funeral Pyre: any car with an internal fire.

Cow Jumping Over The Moon: A car vaulting.

Viking Funeral: destroying any vehicle, ped, or building with fire.



The Nightmessenger
Vol. 8, No. 2
Summer 2044


One-Lap Drag: A single lap race performed on any race track where acceleration is more important than overall top speed or longevity.

Trading paint: Any collision that does no damage to either vehicle due to similar speeds. The vehicles simply trade paint.

Freight train: When three or more race cars are linked up in draft (one behind the other) for faster speeds. Drivers out of the draft get passed like a freight train going by.

Buffalo shots: firing into the back of a foe, which is usually undefended by weapons. A groaner for Mystery Science Theater 3000 (MST3K) favorites.

Rollerskate: A subcompact or compact car. Similar terms are: pregnant skateboard or rollerskate.



The Nightmessenger
Vol. 8, No.3
Fall 2044 
 

Roadrunner: A) a race car specially built for a one-lap race. B) a race car with good luck.

Coyote: A) A race car built to catch a roadrunner. B) a race car with bad luck.

Weapons Tester: TARGET store signs the world over.

Missouri Boat Ride: Being aboard an out-of-control vehicle (from the movie The Outlaw Josey Wales.

Popeye: A vehicle with two front-mounted weapons, one of which has been destroyed.
 


The Nightmessenger
Vol. 8, No.4
Winter 2044


Auto-confetti: When a vehicle hits a wall hard enough to be confettied automatically by the damage.



The Nightmessenger
Vol. 9, No. 2
Summer 2045


T-Cat Express: Any racing vehicle powered by a thundercat power plant. Typically reaching speeds over 200 mph and accelerate at 15 mph. Electric or not, it's a fast car.

Camel Jockey: Any crew of a Camel (a bus with two oversized power plants for extended range; see The AADA Vehicle Guide Volume 1) and/or its variants. Unknown whether this is a compliment or an insult.



The Nightmessenger
Vol. 9, No. 3
Fall 2045


Stealth Driver: any competitor who remains unnoted by anyone until near the end of the event. Usually, this person's name is followed by the words, "Where did [s]he come from?!"



The Nightmessenger
Vol. 10, No. 1
Spring 2046


Hindenfloat: Any airship filled with hydrogen; more commonly used to describe the larger Zeppelins. Some carders even place arms shipments on these, thinking no one would be foolish enough to risk shooting at what is essentially a giant floating bomb.

Armor-heavy/firepower-heavy: Terms used to describe vehicles where one element is emphasized, usually to the detriment of the other. The "armor-heavy" vehicle has low-damage weapons and lots of armor (likely a ram-car); the "firepower-heavy" vehicle can shred average vehicles in one or two volleys, but cannot withstand much punishment itself (a good example is the "Grand Slam" series



The Nightmessenger
Volume 10,  No. 2
Summer 2046


Pesticide: Poison gas.

Pesticide Special: vehicle designed to carry poison gas; alternately, any task-specific ped killer.

Pesticidal Maniac: Driver of above.

Waffled: Run over by tracked vehicle (named for distinctive track pattern on corpse).

Minute Steak: Run over by heavy vehicle (Slices of the Minute Steak brand of food are very thin).

Blender: Vehicle with scythecaps (wheelhubs with blades).

Sewing Machine: Gauss Gun (shoots lots of needles).

DOA (Dead On Arrival): Vehicle with arena lifespan of <5 seconds.

Spray-and Pray: Expending ammo/power in order to build a To-Hit bonus.

Brain Surgery: Head-shot with heavy weapon.

[DELETED]: Anti-personnel mine (explodes when stepped on).



The Nightmessenger
Vol. 12, No. 1
Spring 2048


[DELETED]: A submarine in a hydro-arena or lake.

Nickel and Diming: Killing an opponent by using numerous hits from low-damage weapons

Mortar Shell: A 24-ounce soil drink bottle. A can or bottle of Mountain Dew or Surge is referred to as a high-explosive mortar shell.

Jaw Breaker: Any attack which destroys a vehicle's front two tires. Alternately, a vehicle designed to deliver such attacks or a duellist who specializes in making them.

Flat-Footed: A vehicle which has had all of its tires destroyed.

Clean Sweep: A term used to describe a duel in which a single duellist has defeated everyone else in the arena with him. This condition is very rare, with only two examples on record.

Immortal: A character with three or more clones in storage.

Gibraltar: Any vehicle which carries 50% or more of its weight capacity as armor.

God Gun: A tank gun of 75mm or higher in caliber.



The Nightmessenger
Vol. 12, No. 2
Summer 2048
 

Give-me points: Points earned without much effort by the duellist. Common examples include checkpoints, targets & jumps.

Elemental: A duellist who is nearly impossible to defeat. This term is usually applied to someone who wins more than a dozen duels in a row.

Bumper Sticker: A car that follows an oversized vehicle too closely. Alternately, a vehicle with bumper spikes.



The Nightmessenger
Vol. 12, No. 3
Fall 2048
 

[DELETED]: To be killed in the slowest and most painful way imaginable. From the movie, "Things To Do In Denver When You're Dead."

Dog and Pony Show: A derogatory remark made by members of Big League Unlimited duelling (BLUD) and some street duellists. It is what they think of an AADA arena event.

 

The Nightmessenger
Vol. 14, No. 3
Fall 2050


Thumper/Beater: A car with too much stereo equipment. The bass can be felt from inside a house.

Photon Torpedo: A 2-liter bottle of soda.

Quantum Torpedo: A 2-liter bottle of Jolt Cola.

Doomsday Device: A 2-liter bottle of Double Jolt Cola.

Joy Package: Dropped weapons concealed by another (spikes under junk, mines under smoke, etc).

Alphabet Ammo: Ammunition with an abbreviated name (HEAT, HESH, APFSDS, etc.).

Police Magnet: A fast car with a bright red paint job.



The Nightmessenger
Vol. 15, No. 2
Summer 2051


6th-Day Violation: returning a video after the due date.