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An old term for soldier, dating from the WWI era or possibly even earlier.
"Here come the doughboys, marching over the hill to save us."
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Someone who hangs around the airport a lot. Generally, more ramp rats will be found in smaller, friendlier airports, where there are flight schools and such to mooch coffee off of.
The ramp is the large concrete area where planes are parked. Contrary to it's name, ramps are usually fairly flat.
See airport bum.
I made a good landing, even the ramp rats behind the fence thought so when they saw it.
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Short for "cumulative," among other things.
Jane did really well on her final exams in college, she got a 3.7 cume!
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Another way of saying "slow down" or "stop." Usually used when someone is being hasty about something and a wiser person says "Hold your horses!" to make them stop and think. Encourages someone to have caution.
Based on the times when people used wagons or carriages, and when they needed to keep them under control they would need to literally hold the horses back from running.
"Hold your horses," said Joe, "you don't know when the movie even starts."
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One who is always getting the soup spilled on him by the schlemiel.
Sometimes Bob can also be a schlemiel, when he's not being a schlamazel.
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A derogatory term for a helicopter pilot.
Usually referring to the sort of helicopter pilot that ties up the radio because HE can hover and thus has all the time in the world, or who flies way too low over populated areas because he CAN.
Note: not all helicopter pilots are like this. But the ones that are, get called rotor-heads.
Will that rotor-head please quit hogging the radio so I can make my position report before I bust class D airspace?
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An expression of delight, similar to "It's my birthday." Probably accompanied by dancing around.
"Oooooh yeah, you dunked that shot... you da man, it's your birthday, woop! Woop!"
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