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navyspeak

noun

Etymology

From navy + -speak.

  1. derived from *néh₂us✻
  2. derived from nāvigō
  3. derived from nāvigia
  4. derived from navie
  5. inherited from nave
  6. suffixed as navyspeak — “navy + speak”

Definitions

  1. The jargon used in the navy.

    • My hat, or my cover (according to navyspeak), had been sitting in my locker since my arrival onboard in December, so it looked a bit crumpled.
    • Nobody believed him, but . . . crayons and mindmaps started flying, and it was difficult to shut things down at 10:30 p.m. that night (2230 in navyspeak).
    • Everything Johnson knew about the performance of his sonar systems at sea—in navyspeak, “forward deployments”—came filtered down through the Office of Naval Intelligence or the Naval Undersea Warfare Center (NUWC) at Newport, Rhode Island.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for navyspeak. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA