cruiser

Noun.

1. A large warship, well armed and equally capable of operating in fleet air defense, anti-submarine, and flagship roles. Larger than a destroyer, it is usually the largest warship in most navies today, short of aircraft carriers. Few navies can afford to build cruisers or buy them second-hand, so a fleet with even a single cruiser is considered respectable. Although very common among navies until the end of the Cold War, cruisers are expensive to operate and are now only found in the navies of the United States (27), Russia (8), Peru (2), and Italy (1).

NATO standard designations for cruisers are: CL (light cruiser, no longer used), CA (heavy cruiser, no longer used), CC (command cruiser, no longer used), CB (battlecruiser, no longer used), CG (guided missile cruiser), and CGN (nuclear-powered guided missile cruiser, now only in use in Russia).

The Argentine cruiser General Belgrano was sunk by a British submarine during the Falklands War of 1982. It is the largest warship sunk in combat since the end of World War Two.

corvette

Noun.

1. A fast warship that is usually smaller than a frigate but larger than patrol craft. These ships are generally well-armed and in use mostly by smaller navies that do not need or cannot afford larger warships. Corvettes generally carry enough firepower to sink ships many times its size, and can thus provide navies with a symetrical response to a threat for asymetrical cost. They do not have the endurance of larger ships and are therefore not suited for long-term operations (with the possible exception of Israeli corvettes, which, due to their prohibition from the Suez Canal, must travel all the way around Africa to reach their operating areas in the Red Sea).

NATO standard designations are: FS (corvette), and FSG (guided misslie corvette).

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1. Corvettes are the largest ships in most Middle Eastern navies, including Israel, Iran and Oman.

dunk

Noun.

1. Short form of podunk.

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1. Billy Bob lives way out in the dunk.

sedan redneck

Noun.

1. A redneck who is not even redneck enough to drive a pickup truck. Instead he or she drives a low-end American-made sedan, usually a Dodge Neon, Chevy Malibu or other equivalent type.

2. A lower class among hicks. Not a true redneck enough to hold a manual-labor job, so does not drive a pickup truck like normal rednecks.

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There was a traffic jam of sedan rednecks outside of Wal-Mart today during the lunch break.

nuclear war

1. The culmination of all human achievement. Inevitable. This is how we are going to go, folks. It's just a matter of time...

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1. Nuclear war is the orgasm of human existence.

tag

Verb.

1. To shoot another person with a firearm.

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1. The Iraqis tried to cross the street under fire, and a couple of them got tagged.

destroyer

Noun.

1. A medium-sized warship, usually with a displacement of between 3,500 and 6,500 tons. Larger than a Frigate, but smaller than a Cruiser. Primarily tasked with fleet air defense, most modern destroyers are equally capable in ASW (anti-submarine warfare). Not considered large enough to act as a flagship, but sufficiently large to carry out independent operations. The word "destroyer" comes from the ship's original task, to destroy smaller, faster torpedo boats before they could sink capital ships.

2. NATO standard designations for destroyers are: DD (gun destroyer), DDG (guided missile destroyer), and DDGN (nuclear-powered guided missile destroyer, discontinued in July 1975).

Most blue-water navies include at least a few destroyers.