Navy Terminology & Slang

Heads

• Toilets
• Drink
• Ugly woman
• A spectator

Happy Hour

• The hour set aside everyday for an ice-cream break
• The hour during which the ship is cleaned everyday
• Afternoon tea break
• The hour of the day that laundry is done

Frog Hog

• Helicopter pilot
• Electronics Maintenance Man
• Fried baloney
• A female who hangs around Navy SEALs

mess

• dining
• washing powder
• porthole
• salt

Bow

• Lower point of inner hull of a ship
• Ship's steering wheel
• Food waste disposal
• Front of a ship

Knot

• Large cockroach
• Salute
• nautical mile per hour
• generously filled baguette

Master at Arms

• Chief Petty Officer
• Ship's captain
• Ship's policemam
• Medical Officer

Aye, aye

• launch from shipyard
• I understand, I will comply
• tilt sideways
• to lay on one's bunk

Brig

• jail
• bathroom
• sick room
• kitchen

Ensign

• Low
• Winch used to raise a ship's anchor
• Large naval flag