Acronyms & Slang

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Whale: An Orca, for the ship name originating from a whale species.
Boiling: Silent Running near a star or a station orbiting close to a star.
Brick: Lakon Type-6 Transporter ship, for it's appearance looking very similar to the shape of a brick.
Redbull Can: Deployed mine, cylinder-looking shape.
Useless Dreg: Common insult originally coming from pirates after a scan shows no cargo.
Noise Machine: An Adder, particularly it's sounds disliked by many players.
Conda: Short term for an Anaconda. Not to be confused with the F63 Condor, a ship at the other end of the size spectrum.
Sidey: Short term for a Sidewinder.
Winder: Another short term for a Sidewinder.
Imp: An NPC or player allied with the Empire and flying an Imperial vessel.
Trash can: A cargo canister containing scrap, biowaste or other waste commodities.
Pills: Short term for the narcotics commodity.
Toast rack: The metal frame structure outside of a station's airlock.
Hot soup: Fuel scooped from a star.
Fed(s): NPC or player allied with the Federation / the Federation itself.
Ugly Duckling: An Adder, compared to the other vessels manufactured by Zorgon Peterson.
Friendship Drive: Affectionate term for the Frame Shift Drive based on the pronunciation of the ship computer.
Freebooter: A term originally said by authority vessels against a pilot if caught doing an illegal action.
Letter box: A term for the airlock slot on a station.
Thirsty: A ship that is low on fuel.
Billionaire: Term traditionally used for a player that took advantage of a past major server transaction glitch which caused commodity duplicating where multiple player(s) had obtained 1,000,000,000+ credits.
Freagle: The free Eagle Mk II given to players who pre-ordered Elite: Dangerous.
Space cow: The Lakon Type-9 Heavy.
Griefer: A player who deliberately irritates and harasses other players. See Griefers for more information.
DBX: Short term for the Diamondback Explorer.
DBS: Short term for the Diamondback Scout.
FDL: Short term for the Fer-de-Lance. Could also be used to refer to Faulcon DeLacy, but isn't typically used to do so.