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  2. List of police-related slang terms - Wikipedia

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    This name is used mostly by criminals or people to warn those indulging in crime or illegal activity that police officers are on their way. Although the term 12 is a police radio call code, urban slang has changed it into a warning phrase.

  3. Handkerchief code - Wikipedia

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    The handkerchief code (also known as the hanky/hankie code, the bandana/bandanna code, and flagging) [1] is a system of color-coded cloth handkerchief or bandanas for non-verbally communicating one's interests in sexual activities and fetishes. The color of the handkerchief identifies a particular activity, and the pocket it is worn in (left or ...

  4. Piggyback (transportation) - Wikipedia

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    A handball game with piggybacking players in Ancient Greece circa. 500 BCE. A person carrying someone else on their back is most commonly seen in the modern day in the form of a parent carrying an underage child, either for travelling or for children's games.

  5. RAF slang - Wikipedia

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    Best Blue – the Number 1 uniform worn by RAF personnel, usually for parades, but also when someone was 'under restrictions'. [13] Bimble – a wander around; "We'll just bimble down to the mess". [14] Bimble Box – packed lunch. [15] Blanket Drill – to take a nap, sleep. [16] Blower – the telephone. [13] Boffin – a scientist or ...

  6. Fireman's carry - Wikipedia

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    An Iranian soldier performing a fireman's carry to rescue a wounded comrade while using his pistol in a military exercise. A fireman's carry or fireman's lift (also firefighter's-) is a technique allowing one person to carry another person without assistance, by placing the carried person across the shoulders of the carrier. [1]

  7. Stretcher bearer - Wikipedia

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    A stretcher-bearer party, sometimes a stretcher party or company, is a group or a band of people temporarily or regularly associated which have to carry injured persons with stretchers. In the army stretcher-bearers were a kind of specific soldiers who work with military ambulances and medical services .

  8. 100th Woman in Space Reveals the Sentimental Item She ... - AOL

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    100th Woman in Space Reveals the Sentimental Item She Brought on Board Blue Origin (She Could Only Carry 3 Lbs.!) (Exclusive) Jordan Greene December 6, 2024 at 1:22 PM

  9. Glossary of RAF code names - Wikipedia

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    Interdiction – missions to carry out low-level attacks against enemy communications: railways, shipping, and road traffic. [1] Intruder – offensive patrols to destroy enemy aircraft over their own territory, usually carried out at night. [1] Jager – a hostile aircraft that is at a higher altitude than the pilot's aircraft.