I came across this interesting site that has a list of words used in the RAF. Some I have heard of but others such as "Champagne Glass" I have not heard of before.

It is a big help for us poor Americans who have not learned England "English" yet.

http://www.associations.rafinfo.org.uk/code_names.htm

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It's amazing how many of those expressions are now in everyday use.

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Yes many are now standard brevity codes used in military airforces

this one is fun :
chum - equivalent to the American "buddy"

it comes from french speaking Canadian (Quebec)

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I agree, both my grandfathers used to refer to the technical types as 'boffins' and this has rubbed off on both my father and I, and I noticed my 10yr son referring to my Amatuer radio colleagues the other day as 'boffins' go figure.

I think that this was probably a fairly widely used phase though cause neither of the old fellas were in the Air Force.

Still pretty cool to know that things do carry on