13 button salute: When a sailor in dress pants pulls down on the top two corners and all 13 buttons come unbuttoned at once, usually done just before sex.It is not a reference to any particular time. 0-dark-thirty, 0'dark-thirty: A slang term that is used to describe that the commencement time of an operation or exercise is after midnight and before daylight most typically when people would be deep asleep."We have to get up at 0-dark-hundred." It is not a reference to any particular time. Used to convey that the time is when people are usually asleep. 0-dark-hundred, 0'dark-hundred (pronounced "oh dark hundred", because the "zero" in time expressions was verbally pronounced "oh" in the US Navy and US Army as late as the 1980s: A slang term for any time between midnight and daylight.Navy slang/Unit nicknames.Ī B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Note that in the Navy, many ships and units have nicknames these are listed separately, in Appendix:Glossary of U.S.
The following are some examples of the slang of the United States Navy, you will also see references to the United States Marine Corps as well because of their use of naval terminology sometimes also referred to as NAVSpeak.
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