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

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)
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)
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)

beast, the: nickname for Pegasus (The Captain's Hand)
Big G: nickname for Galactica
Bird Farm: Colonial pilot jargon for battlestars (Final Cut)
bucket, the: 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)
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)

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