List of terms (RDM)

Acronyms

• AAU: Anti-aircraft Unit, a weapon emplacement used to destroy aerial units (Fragged)
• BSG: Battlestar Group (Water)
• CAG: Commander Air Group, i.e. the senior pilot
• CAP: Combat Air Patrol
• CBDR: Constant Bearing, Decreasing Range, i.e. a collision course (Final Cut, Pegasus)
• CF: Colonial Fleet (Final Cut)
• CFR: Colonial Fleet Reserve (Final Cut)
• CIC: Combat Information Center
• CMC: Colonial Marine Corps (Final Cut)
• CMCR: Colonial Marine Corps Reserve (Final Cut)
• CMO: Chief Medical Officer
• CNP: Command Navigation Program. Central computer program used on Colonial Fleet vessels (Miniseries)
• CO: Commanding Officer
• DC: Damage Control
• ECO: Electronic Countermeasures Officer
• EMP: Electro-Magnetic Pulse; typically accompanies a nuclear explosion
• FTL: Faster Than Light
• IFF: Identification Friend Foe (Kobol's Last Gleaming, Part II)
• LSO: Landing Signal Officer
• OOD: Officer of the Deck (Scattered)
• RFN: Right Frakking Now (Valley of Darkness)
• SAR: Search and Rescue (Fragged)
• XO: Executive Officer

Military Jargon

• Actual: the commanding officer. Used in wireless transmissions
• ball: visual indicator used in a battlestar's Instrument Landing System (Miniseries, Act of Contrition, Final Cut, Black Market)
• bird farm: Colonial pilot jargon for a battlestar (Final Cut)
• code blue: a term used by an officer who has identified a Cylon agent (Lay Down Your Burdens, Part II)
• conn: literally the navigation controls, but also used to refer to command in general (The Captain's Hand)
• ell-tee: phonetic pronounciation of "Lt.", i.e. Lieutenant (Valley of Darkness, Fragged)
• fire team: a small unit of military personnel, typically Marines or soldiers (Valley of Darkness)
• five-'graph order: five paragraph operation order. A basic command tool taught to officer candidates (Fragged)
• genny: power generator. Tyrol asked Cally to "find the genny" to power up the lights on Ragnar Anchorage (Miniseries)
• klick: one kilometer
• knuckle dragger: inoffensive slang for a mechanic
• nugget: a pilot in training (Act of Contrition, Scar)
• Mark One Eyeball: the unaided eye (You Can't Go Home Again, Scar)
• Old Man: slang for the commanding officer
• rook: "rookie" (Miniseries)
• Sierra Alpha: "suspicious activity" (Scattered)
• sitrep: "situation report"
• swallow: decoy drone deployed by Raptors (Miniseries)
• snipe: engineer (The Captain's Hand)

Other Colloquialisms

• The Beast: nickname for Pegasus (The Captain's Hand)
• Big G: nickname for Galactica
• The Bucket: nickname for Galactica (The Captain's Hand)
• bullet-head: slang for a Cylon Centurion (Downloaded)
• frak: Colonial version of "fuck"
• freight monkey: term for crewmen on Colonial freighters (Scattered, deleted scene)
• hard six: taking large risks; literally, rolling 2 threes with a pair of dice
• Heavy: used to signify a civilian transport vessel over a certain gross weight/mass, i.e. Colonial Heavy 798
• skin job: derogatory term for humanoid Cylons. Homage to the movie Blade Runner (Downloaded)
• stump: derogatory term for a prisoner in a labor camp (Bastille Day)
• toaster: derogatory term for Cylons in general
• toaster shopping: searching and destroying Cylons (Valley of Darkness)

Battlestar Galactica Specific Terms

• ambrosia: a type of alcoholic beverage
• carom: term used in conjunction with a Dradis Contact read; analogous to the term "mark"
• chamalla: hallucinogenic plant used in religious ceremonies and medical treatments
• cubit: unit of currency
• Dradis: Colonial equivalent of radar
• fumarella leaf: tobacco or a type of tobacco (Water)
• G-4: a type of explosive similar to modern C-4 (Water)
• krypter: Colonial version of "mayday" (Miniseries)
• morpha: Colonial equivalent of morphine (Valley of Darkness, Epiphanies)
• Pyramid: popular Colonial ball game
• Red Line: a point in space behind which an accumulative error creeps into FTL jump calculations (Miniseries, Pegasus (Extended Version))
• stims: stimulants or a type of stimulants (33, Final Cut)
• Triad: card game similar to Poker
• tylium: mineral that can be refined to a powerful fuel
• wireless: radio