Elite: Dangerous Slang Dictionary and creator.

[Anopheles]

As long as we keep the SPACE COW as a synonym for the Lakon Type 9

Owh and:
- The Void: The blackness of space. Generally used in "See you in The Void." as a friendly way of saying: See you outthere...

Added to here.

 

[Anopheles]

Dry Out, to: Pirate slang for not robbing the same victim too often. "I took out this big Python full of gold, let him dry out for a week and then took a big pile of weapons off him."

 

[Anopheles]

Witchspace! I can't believe I missed Witchspace.

Witchspace: The space you travel through when you travel between systems. Most people think it is 'another place', but if you ask ten people what that is, you'll get twenty answers.

 

[Anopheles]

Cattle Grid: Alternative name for Toast Rack

 

[Anopheles]

Duckling: The Adder. Most likely based off the old Fairy Tale for children 'The Ugly Duckling that got eaten by a Tree Cat".

 

[Anopheles]

Mousing: Toying with a disabled ship. A sign that the attacking pilot's mind is ticking when it should be tocking.

Edited

Morgor Sleigh Ride: A name for avoiding being interdicted. Named after the anarchic system. One does not simply fly into Morgor.

 

[Anopheles]

Kitten: A ship with no defenses or weapons. "I came across a kitten full of platinum! The drinks are on me!"

 

[Bog]

Light(s) - Unit of distance, short for Light Years.

"I bolted a B4 FSD to my Space Brick and now I can jump 20 lights at a go"

"Its sixty lights away - make sure you're packing a fuel-scoop".

Second(s) - Shorthand for Light Seconds.

"Sure, it's only 5.2 lights from (system) to (other system), but you've got 7,000 seconds of thumb-twiddling to the station from there."

 

[Bog]

Space Brick: Lakon Type 6. It looks like a brick, for goodness' sake. It's a Space Brick.

 

[Dizzy Flores]

Spaced - To die because of a lack of oxygen.
eg. "I almost got spaced by a pirate when my canopy blew out. Time to upgrade my life support."

 

[Commander Yog Sothoth]

Floater - A player that has had their thrusters shot to 0% but faces no enemy destruction.

 

[Nick Igoe]

Rock Licking = mining

 

[Flappers]

O

OSOD: Orange Ship of Death

We all know it

 

[Anopheles]

O

OSOD: Orange Ship of Death

We all know it

I not sure I do.

Anyway edited up to here.

 

[Summo]

I. Love. This. This is the sort of thing that would have been on a poster bundled in the game box, back in the day.

Anyway...

Zoom and boom - The act of accidentally boosting into the walls of a space station or large ship.
Friendship Drive - Affectionate term for the Frameshift Drive. Some say the on-board computer declares "Friendship Drive charging..."

 

[Anopheles]

Completed to here.

 

[DocStone]

Stoppie - The action performed when entering the letterbox without Docking Permission and the 30 second warning appears. Usually accompanied by screams of "AARGHHH! NO! NO!" and a silent prayer that there are no larger craft behind you.

 

[Anopheles]

Complete to here:

Note: I'm out for the rest of the day from 12ish (I know, life has terrible timing), so if you don't get a quick 'completed' it's nothing personal.

 

[Anopheles]

Melon Farmer: A groundling, a planet dweller. Nobody knows what a melon is. "Had to take this Melon Farmer in a suit to LV246. He wouldn't talk about it. Gave me the creeps."

 

[Retrograde]

M

Milk, The - space, short for Milky Way

Eg - it's tough out there in the Milk, making enough credits to keep the rust bucket tight.

Adds a new meaning to "Milk run"! That was something I had to look up, but I guess it's not Elite specific.