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Glossary of American Jobsite Slang
slang
meaning
"Get jiggie with it"
to get some ass into what you are doing
"Get My Money!"
quit/drag Up
"How's the pressure"
code for checking out that hot chick on jobsite
"The Eagle Lands"
payday
Skids
work boots
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[Re]pprentice
one knowledgeable in too many trades to know the difference in trades lingo; mixes them up; forgets that they know...can't remember what color hard hat to where to the job.
1900 Box
4" square box
2 and a blue
lay off slip (blue) and final two paychecks
2 County Boomer
traveler who only travels to the two locals adjacent to his home local
26 Weeker
journeyman from the union hall on a 26 week work ticket
4-O
4 inch octagon box
5 Wood or 3 Wood
mason term for either a 3 peice or 5 piece crick level
5" Box
4 11/16" metal box
90 Day Wonder
apprentice carpenter ("don't know shit!")
A.W.O.S.
A Waist Of Skin (heard by miners and ironworkers)
Adaired
when your ajoining signal maintainer steals your overtime
Aimer
truck driver
Anal Ease
anti seeze
Anal Glacoma
when you just can't see your ass getting to work
Anti-dog
leveling device used while bending offsets in conduit on a large table or cyclone type bender
Apprenticeaurus
grey haired apprentice
Arc-starter
imaginary aerosol can that you send greenhands after
Ass Gasket
toilet seat cover
Assface
term used for unindentured (helper) whose name you don't remember
Asshole
loop in the wire your trying to pull
Aunt Claddy
gossip
Babe #1
spart-bart
Back Door Bandit
person didn't do an apprenticeship
Back Door Mutt
non union labor that does what every the boss tell him to do = a company man
Back-booking
working out of town while continuing to resign at your own local
Badges
hard hat stickers
Balsagna
a meal or platter served to a suckass, usually from the foreman
Bam-Bam
1-1/2 drive impact gun used by millwrights
Band Aid
temporary pipe coupling
Bats
Brothers Against Travelling Suckasses
Beamer
tie-off point that is portable and affixes to a steel beam
Bear Shit
roofing mastic
Beater
electrician's flat screw driver that is used for everything (chisel, pry bar, etc.)
Beater
4-8-or 20lbs. sledge hammer
Belly Up
broke, busted, no money until next paycheck
BFH
big f-ing Hammer
BFHD
big f-ing hammer drill
Big Jigger
sawzall
Bird Dog
a foreman (or higher up) who stands around or tries to hide and watches you work
Block
chain block aka chain fall
Blue Lagoon
porta-potty, honey bucket, shitter
Blue Monday
20# beater
Bogart
to borrow someone else's tools
BOHICA
"Bend Over...Here It Comes Again!"(When the company screws you or when the union comes back from the bargaining table with a shitty contract.)
Boiler Dog
someone who works during spring & fall outages in the powerhouse boilers
Boiler God
prima-donna; a boiler dog who wants preferential treatment
Bone Pile
conduit that was scraped/bent wrong
Bone Pile
conduit that has been wasted
Book Buyer
someone who doesn't go through an apprenticeship
Boom Out
work out of town
Boomer
traveler
Boomhand
sideboom operator
Boot
shitty bricklayer
Booty
$$ from scrapped copper
Bosshole
foreman
Bottle Flu
when someone misses work because of a hangover
Boy Butter
lubricant for grooved pipe fittings and gaskets
Boy Butter
Never-Seez
Brain Bucket
hard hat
Brain Saver
hard hat
Brickie
bricklayer
Bridge Hat
brown wide brim hardhat
Brother F-er
shoppie/foreman that does not stand for the CBA
Bubble
torpedo level
Bubble Stick
any type of level (usually a torpedo level)
Bubble-o-meter
torpedo level or other larger levels
Bucket of Ohms
something to tell your apprentice to get you (WARNING: smart ones just might come back with a 5 gallon mud bucket filled with 2 hole conduit straps! LOL)
Bull Prick
spud wrench
Bulldogs
tinsnips for cutting heavy guage metal
Bullets
screws
Busted Out
failed a job site weld test
Buster Brown
UPS driver
Button Punch
used by tinners to fasten standing seam roof panels
Buy-In
someone who did not go through the apprenticeship and bought their union book
C**t Hair
tiny bit off its mark
Canadian Plywood
drywall
Captain
railroad conductor
Captain Cord Cap
safety professional
Carpenturd
carpenter
Cat's Ass
something extremely good
Cat's Paw
small nail puller
Cedar Monkey
Lineman
Cedar Tick
lineman
Channies
channel lock pliers
Charlie Card
someone who bought their card and did not serve an apprenticeship-usually a hack and always a suckass
Cheater
large pipe slipped over the handle of a wrench used for leverage on a stubborn pipe or bolt.
Cheese Eater
aka rat
Cheeze Wench
wife smiling at you on payday
Chicken Band
zip tie
Chicken Dick
pickle fork shaped pry bar used to hold rebar in place until tied
Chimes of Ignorance
clanging of spud wrenches when an ironhead walks
Chinamart
Walmart
Come Spring
when the next job starts
Coolers
a type of nail
Corn Dog
small pneumatic chisel
Cowboys
adjustable, quick release C-clamps, usually means a pair
Crapper
general contractor's trailer/office
Crescent Hammer
crescent wrench being used as a hammer
CUB
new apprentice "Completely Useless Bastard"
Cushioning
throwing ass gaskets, toilet paper and other debris into the shitter to avoid smurf kisses
Data Dawg
installer of network cabling
Dead-nuts
achieving a high level of accuracy in measurement
Dick Greaser
a equipment greaser
Dickin' the Dog
slow walking your foreman
Dikes
diagonal cutting pliers
DILLIGAF
"Do I look like I give a f**k?"
Dime Piece
woman that's a "10"
Dinner Bucket
lunch pail
Dirt Wrench
a broom
Ditch Banger
pipeline worker
Ditch Witch
mechanical trench digger
Dog Guard
toilet paper put down on front of toilet seat so your junk dont touch anything nasty
Dog Leg
when one of the two bends in an offset are not in line with each other
Dogs (1)
hand made brackets tacked to pipe to align a joint to be welded
Dogs (2)
channel locks
Donkey Dick
scaffold frame connector
Double Booker
a person who works in someone else's local, but is still on another local's books.
Double Jack
sledge hammer with a cut down handle usually used for laying rail In a tunnel
Drag
quitting a union job
Drag up
quit or ask to get closer to home or a better job
Drag Up Dust
the first snow of the year
Drag-up Drops
sweat
Dragin Fever
wanting to quit a job.
Drawings
blueprints
Drippy
so young you barely made it out of the old mans loins..
Dug Grant
wormy worker who chastises others for standing up to the man
Dunage
blocks of wood
Dutchman
temporary support
Eagle Shits Today
payday
Fergie
scrape material $$$
Finch
one foot extention cord
Fire Wrench
oxy-acetylene torch
First Year J-man
second most dangerous person on a job next to a first year appretice thinks he/she knows EVERYTHING
Fitwright
millwright doing fitters work
Flabster
operator who trys doing finisher laborer and teamster work
Flaggers
work boots made in USA showing the American flag on them
Flange-head
steamfitter
Flat Head
lineman electrician
Flex Bender
imaginary object, flex doesn't need a bender, thus the name flex
Flip Flop
hypocrite journeyman who acts like one of the guys until he makes foreman than he's a company man
Float
flatbed trailer
FM
f*#ing Magic (when you fixed an electrical problem but you don't know what you did or how you did it!)
FNG
the f-ing new guy
Foreman Kit
knee pads
Foreman-itis
condition of acting like a boss when you are not
Foremans Helper
two door front opening job box
Foreskin
foreman
Foreskin
foreman
FOT
f-ing out of towners
Foursquare
common 4" x 4" junction box
Fox and Hound
electrical toner
French Broom
sheetrock square
French Fry
apprentice electrician who forgets to ground himself first day
Frog
f-ing ratty organized guy
Frog
formerly a rat organized guy
Frog Eyes
two light emergency pack
From-To
any type of adapter to connect two different items together.
Fubar
"when something can't be fixed its F-ed Up Beyond All Repair"
Funny Papers
blueprints or a resemblance to some sort of plan
FYI
f*#k you idiot
Gaffer
job foreman
Gaggin Wagon
lunch truck
Gang Box
lockable box used to store company and/or personal tools
Garbage Truck
the roach coach
Gas Axe
cutting torch
Gear Jammer
truck driver
Gem Box
2 x 3 device box
Get-er-done
watch while I f#*k this up!
GF
usually means general foreman; in this case it means general f#%k stick
Glass Stomach
so you can see when you have your head up your ass
Glorified Fence Builder
Lineman
Go Arounder
screw gun
Golden Arm
welder who thinks he is the best
Golden Arm
premadonna welder; usually a pipefitter
Goon Spoon
shovel
Gopher
no good for anything but fetching
Gowies
channel locks
Grand Pappy Cable
larger multi conductor feeder cable
Greek Tragedy
when nothing on a job seems to go right
Green (Horn)
person that is inexperienced
Ground Pounder
railroad conductor
Gunner
short piece of pipe used for measuring
Gut Truck
food truck
Gut Wagon
food truck guy that comes at break and lunch
Hack
some one who thinks he's good at his trade, but IS NOT
Hacksaw
way of pointing out a good looking woman without being obvious
Hag
foreman that's always on your case - for no reason
Half-a-Fitter
HVAC technician
Half-watt
low voltage/communications technician
Hall Rats
workers who work exclusively out of the union hall
Hall Trash
good union member (opposite of a shoppie)
Hammer Mechanic
sheetmetal worker with no finesse
Hand Shoes
leather gloves
Hand Socks
gloves
Hard Head
lag bolt
Hatchet Knot
poorly tied knot that can only be untied using a hatchet
Haybag
woman you're shacking up with
Headache Box
type of gang box with an upper door that is supported above your head
Heat Wrench
blow torch
Heated Up
energizing equipment
Height Adjuster
step ladder/extension ladder
Hell Dog
large pneumatic chisel
Henway
imaginary tool you send your greenhand after
Hershey Factory
job johnnie
Hoe Hand
overweight operator
Hoehand
excavator operator
Hoghead
locomotive engineer
Honey Bucket
porta potty
Honey Sucker
person who cleans port-a-potties
Hootnanie
flyable porta potty
HorseCock
water tight conduit
Hot Box (1)
PVC conduit bender
Hot Box (2)
box built with lightbulbs used to heat meals over several hours
Hot Rail
warns track workers that a train is coming
Hurdy Gurdy
pipe cutting/beveling tool
Idiot Stick
non-contact voltage tester
Iron Hump
ironworker; a term normally used by tinknockers
Ironhead
ironworker
Irontermite
carpenter wannabe ironworker
Itchy
insulator
J J
junior journeyman ...someone with less than three years in the field as a journeyman
Jag
undefined amount or quantity that everyone knows how much it is
Jaggoff
idiot
Jedi-Apprenti
apprentice in training
Jesus Slippers
knee pads
Jitter Bug
needle gun
Joe
village (jobsite) idiot
Joed Up
to screw up something or somthing being fabricated wrong
Johnson Bar
used for leverage to lift and move heavy equipment
Juice
electrical current
Kitten
woman on the jobsite
Klien's
lineman's pliers
Knock Wrench
wrench made to be hit with a hammer
Knot Wrench
knife
L.R.T.
little red thing (anti-short) for mc cable
Laborer
person who thinks he is an electrician, carpenter, plumber, iron worker or tin knocker
Labrador
laborer
Lagger
insulator
Lagger
sheetmetal worker who covers large storage tanks
Last Supper
when the boss/shop buys lunch for the crew = layoff's are coming.
Leaveitright
"It's all good!" (Leave it right where it is.)
Lemon
railroad worker term who is a useless worker
Lever B
heavy equipment operator advice to other trades trying to run equipment
Lever Puller
heavy equipment operator
Liberal Scumbag
union organizer (ouch!)
Linesmans
9" side cutting pliers
Liquid Wheels
Sent an apprentice to get a bucket of liquid wheels while your in the middle of moving switch gear
Little Jigger
jig saw
Low Hy
7018 welding wire (low hydrogen)
Lucky
electrician
Lum
person that is useless and lazy on a project.
Lum Foot
your partners foot when used to hold something down or in place until you can tie it or weld it.
Magnetass
railroad worker term of a worker who sits on their ass
Marsupial Boots
metatarsal boots
Martini
newbie ironworker's first on-the-job balancing act; looks drunk
Matterdaddy
tell your greenhorn apprentice to get one. He'll say "what's a matterdaddy?" Nothin sonny.
Millbilly
millwright
Millrats
many millwrights
Millwrong
unskilled millwright
Molten Metal Mechanic
welder
Monday Morning Screwdriver
common head screwdriver used to hold a screw firmly to the tip
Money Makers
linemans Hooks
Mongo
scrap copper
Monkey on a stick
a friction jack used in fencing and in the automotive collision repair trade
Monkey Shit (1)
liquid nails adhesive
Monkey Shit (2)
putty used to seal electrical pipe/fittings
Muck-box
train car designated for removing muck, or earth from a mine or tunnel
Muck-stick
shovel
Muckers
laborers on a concrete crew
Mucket
pipefitter fab bench
Mud Puppies
carpenters and laborers on a footing crew
Mutt
man with no backbone, does whatever the company wants; company man
Nagger
jobsite security metal detector
Nail Bender
carpenter; a term normally used by ironworkers
Narrowback
inside wireman
Needle Scaler
needle gun
Never Sneeze
Anti-Sieze
New York
to overtighten bolts, able clamps, screws, etc.
NFG
no f**king good
Nipple
short piece of conduit (24" or less)
No Dog
a small level device used by electricians to bend offsets correctly
Non-skid
toilette paper
Noon Balloon
leaving early; catching a ride on the "noon balloon".
Nooner (1)
to get paid double time to work through lunch
Nooner (2)
going out for lunch and not coming back
Nose
the end of a wire pushed through conduit
Nose Bag
lunch box
Nuclear Hold
an all stop condition at a nuclear power plant when plans change or project put on hold
Numbnuts
ironworker
OE
operating engineer
Old-Timer
grey haired and outta their time since way-back-when
Opie
operating engineer (newbie)
Out of your time
finished your apprenticeship
Outage
when a power plant goes out of service for maintenance, or(nuke)refueling
Pack Sand
shutup and stick it up your butt and pack sand around it
PacPac
cordeless impact driver
Pecker Tong Protectors
leather gloves
Pecker-head
junction box on a motor where the leads are
Persuader
hammer
Peter Length
6-12 inches away "we are just a peter length short"
PFM
pure f**king magic
PH Operator
pine-handle operator
Phase Conductor
something you send your first year apprentice to look for - knowing it will never be found
Phone Booth
port-o-potty on a no-phone allowed job
Pickpocket
the guy who always borrows money for the lunch truck
Pie Knife
large gauge wire cutter or lopper
Pimp
person who gets misc. for welders
Pink Ticket
SMWIA union dues receipt
Pipe Dope
thread lube/sealing compound (Gasoila)
Pipe Liar
bad pipelayer
Pipe Soap
lubricant used to pulled wire through conduit
Pipe Stretcher
imaginary object that you make the 1st year appr. spend 8 hours looking for on his first day on the job.
Pipefighter
pipefitter
Piss Ditch
the invert or bottom of the tunnel
Piss Pot
brown wide brim hard hat (a 'bridge' hat)
Piss Test
drug test
Pita
pain in the ass
Plitter
plumber that comes a jobsite to do fitter work
Plunger
plumber
Pocket Rocket
pocket level/torpedo level
Pogo Stick
jack hammer
Pookey
duct sealant
Potato Wrench
spud wrench
Pressure Check
callout for everyone to check out the hot chick on job
Promotion Pads
knee pads
Puddlers
laborers shoveling/moving concrete
Pull The Pin
quit/drag Up
Pump Pliers
channellock pliers - 440s 460s 480s, etc.
Punk
apprentice ironworker
Pup (1)
young apprentice
Pup (2)
short piece of pipe
Purse
hammer
Pusher
acts like a foreman to keep guys working, also a suckass
Queen
someone left in charge when the Foreman has to leave early or is going to take a few days off
Rabbit
scrap copper wire
Rabbit Gun
large gauge wire cutters/loppers
Ram-rod
1) n: same as pusher 2) v: to forcibly push a job forward, often wrecklessly
Rammy
to be in a hurry and rush things, which usually leads to errors and mistakes
Ranger
shop rocket/suck pump
Rat
non-union on union jobsite
Rat-mart
another name for wal-mart
Rattle Gun
impact wrench
Ratty
work that's done shitty; looks like crap; no craftsmanship, as if a non union RAT did it
Reach Around
a wrap for large pipe
Red Rodding
downhilling a pipe weld with 5P welding rod
Redass
someone angered to the point that production is severely slowed
Reds
a pair of Red Wing boots
Rembrandt
painter
Rights and Lefts
separate tinsnips - one cuts to the right and the other to the left
Ringer
working a full week.
River Bend
messed up bend on a piece of tubing that gets thrown in the river to hide the evidence
Roach Coach
coffee/lunch truck
Roach Coach
food truck
Road Trash
working out of town in another local, or a traveler
Rob Roy (1)
type of feeder cable, typically used in industrial applications
Rob Roy (2)
PVC coated rigid conduit
Rock Smoother
cement mason
Rocker
drywall installer
Rodburner
someone who is trying to weld but it aint happening
Rodbuster
ironworker who works in the rebar trade
Root Ranger
weld inspector
Rope
romex
Rug Burner
new guy who kisses up to foreman/contractor
Run
to operate heavy equipment proficently, safely and productively
Runner
person who rushes through a job right for the unemployment line/union hall. ("No running allowed"-is my motto)
San Francisco Slippers
knee pads
Sand Hog
tunnel worker
Scab (1)
union worker who crosses a picket line
Scab (2)
non-union worker on a union job
Scaff Dawg
acomplished scaffold erector
Scaffoleer
Carpenter
Scarlet Rectumitis
a case of the red ass
Schwenked
getting laid off out of turn (usually after calling out a shoppie or a suckass for being a worm)
Scissordicks
communications worker (aka sparky)
Scumbags
what all trades call carpenters
Scumbuckets
what all carpenters call all the other trades
Security Guard
worker that stands around with his/her arms crossed looking at everybody else working
Serve
when someone attaches cables to rope to be pulled in conduit
Shit box
porta-potty
Shit Chaser
Plumber
Shit Fitter
plumber
Shit The Bed
when a device or other object has stopped working
Shit Tickets
toilet paper
Sho-Fly
pipeline access road
Shooter
ramset gun
Shop Cat
a steady Eddie, the guy whos been with the shop so long hes never seen the hall
Shop Flop
someone who works in the fab shop that could make it in the field
Shop Rocket
a person who busts there ass for the shop and gets jobs done quickly (a hero more or less)
Shop Rockets
person who tries to make the contractor money so they continue to get work
Shop Stupid
shop steward
Shoppie
union worker who works for the same contractor all the time
Shoppie Shoes
knee pads
Side Cutters
lineman's pliers
Sidewinder
type of electronically controlled conduit bender
Single Jack
8 lb sledge hammer
SIWAC
"say it with a check!"
Six Inch Reach-around
imaginary tools that you send a first year looking for
Skillethead
ironworker
Sky Hook
same thing as a pipe stretcher
Slam Artist
electrician who does quality work, but its not pleasing to the eye
Sledge
ironworker's tape measure
Sliver Picker
carpenter
Slug
slow/useless worker
Slurpee
useless apprentice
Smoke Test
first time new equipment is heated up
Smoke Wrench
cutting torch
Smurf Kiss
when the blue water in the porta-potty splashes your ass
SNAFU
situation normal all f**cked up
Sofa King
so f@#king good at what you do
Sorepeter
another name for a torpedo level
Spanky
electrician
Sparkler
welder
Sparky
electrician
Steady
Union worker who works for the same contractor all the time
Steel Monkey
ironworker - usually connector
Steering Wheel Holder
stupid truck driver
Store Bought
organized member who didn't serve apprenticeship
Story Pole
a piece of pipe, wood, or conduit with markings on it used when making the same measurement over and over ex. Laying out hangers
Straw Boss
wanna-a-be foreman; someone working with their tools who thinks they are the boss
Stump Jumper
lineman
Suck Ass
union worker who never turns down overtime
Suck Pump
shop rocket
Suggestion Sheet
blueprint (usually followed by FUBAR)
Super Tramp
wireman that travels his entire career
Swag Method
Scientific Wild Ass Guess
Swamp Ass
when your sweat/juice all runs down into your pants and underwear...that's having swamp ass
Swamper
pipeline laborer
Swingin Dick
project manager or general contractor (a suit)
Tampon
plug used to prevent apprentices from dropping shit down boiler tubes being prepped
Tank Shoe
metatarsal boots
Taper
the person taping sheetrock joints
Taponya
"Do you have any tape on you?"
Tardis
porta-potty (UK version of blue lagoon)
Teletubby
telecommunictions/data worker
Termite
carpenter
Testicle Breath
apprentice
The Skipper
job foreman
Thingem
anything that you don't know the name for
Three Wire Monkey
lineman on a pole
Throttle Jockey
locomotive engineer
Tic Tracer
voltage tester
Ticket Jammer
a person who's a traveller, trying to become a book-one member in a local that is not his home local
Tiger
women foreman on the jobsite
TILAM
"Take It Like A Man!" (Used after getting screwed by the company or the union.)
Time
overtime
Time Machine
porta potty
Tinknocker
sheetmetal worker
Tinners
sheet metal workers
Toad
trade member that does the work of another trade and doesn't care
Tonka Jock
crane operator
Tool Bag
what you say to your tool buddy when your guys are jaggin with each other
or worthless person
Top Commie
union president
Topped Out
finished your apprenticeship
Topper
top floor ironworker (anything over 20 floors)
Topping Out
when the ironworkers connect the last beam of a building
Topping-out Party
finishing a brick/block wall
Touchin' Cotton
gotta take a dump as soon as possible
Track Donkey
railroad track department employee
Tractor Ass
laborer who won't leave the lull
Trailer
an exstension cord
Travel Trash
out of town workers - "travelers"
Triple Nickel
Greenlee 555 conduit bender
Trophy Rack
junk pile of trashed conduit that was bent wrong
Tug-boats
madison hangers
Tulsa Cutter
Mathey Dearman hand crank pipe beveler
Turd Chaser
plumber/pipefitter
Turd Herder
plumber
Turtle
mobile cart used to pull spools of BX from
V-Back
lineman (all muscle, nothin' on top)
Vermetti
jack for hoisting large ductwork
Walk of Shame
when company fires a manager and escorts him to the parking lot
Weed Weasel
railroad official
Whip
welding term for the electrode holder
Whistle Bit
to loose track of time and work into or through break or quitting time
Whistle Dick
WD-40
White Leg
carpenter
White Paper
tradesman working for a union shop who is not a union member
White paper
non-union worker paying dues to work on union job
Whitney
hand held punch used by sheetmetal workers
Whiz Quiz
drug test
Wiggly
flex (flexible metal conduit)
Wiggy
voltage tester
Windshield
safety glasses
Wing Nut
jobsite foreman
Wire Shinner
electrician
Wire Tree
upright cart used to hold wire reels in place while pulling the wire off of them
Wobble
to cause enough of the workforce to quit the job bringing the project to a standstill
Wobblelater
impact universal joint
Wood Butcher
carpenter
Wood Tick
carpenter
Wood Welder
carpenter
Woodcarver
residential electrician
Woodpecker
carpenter
Woodpussies
what ironworkers call carpenters
Worm
union worker who breaks down the conditions agreed to in the CBA
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