Sailboat fuel - Running on empty.
Salt mines - Place of employment.
Salt Shaker - Highway department Salt truck.
San Quentin Jailbait - Under age female hitch
hiker.
Sandbox Dump - truck hauling dirt or stones.
Scale house - Weigh station.
Scrub brush - Street cleaning truck.
Seatcover - Attractive female occupant in a
car.
Seven-thirds - Best regards.
Seventy-Thirds - Sign-off meaning "Best
wishes".
Shake the bushes - Lead Trucker looking
for radar traps or other police.
Shakey City - Los Angeles, California.
Shaking it - Moving.
Shaking the windows - Clear reception of signal.
Shoot the breeze - Casual conversation.
Shout - Calling someone on the CB.
Short-short - Soon.
Shot an eyeball on it - Saw it.
Shovelling coal - Accelerating.
Show-off lane - Passing lane.
Skates - Tires.
Skip - Atmospheric conditions that cause signals
to travel much farther than they normally would. Typically signals
are line-of-sight, but when the ionosphere is "charged"
by the sun, signals that would normally pass through it are now
reflected back to Earth, or "Skip" a large distance.
Skipland - Distant stations.
Skippers - CBers who talk a long distance.
Skip Talk'n - Someone who has been talking
a long distance.
Sidedoor - Passing lane.
Sidewinder - Someone talking on sideband.
Sin City - Cincinnati, Ohio (Midwest); Las
Vegas, Nevada (West)
Sitting in the saddle - Middle truck in
a line of three or more trucks.
Six wheeler - Small truck.
Slaughter house - Channel 11.
Slammer - Jail.
Smile and comb your hair - Radar trap up ahead.
Smokey - State Police.
Smokey Bear - State Police.
Smokey report - Police location report.
Smokey Beaver - Woman police officer.
Smokey Dozing - Police in a stopped car.
Smokey's thick - Police are everywhere.
Smokey with a camera - Cop with radar.
Smokey with ears - Cop with CB in car.
SNAFU - Foul up.
Sneaky Snake - Hidden patrol car.
Someone spilled honey on the road - State troopers
ahead everywhere.
Somebody stepped on you - Another station transmitted
at the same time and was stronger.
Sonnet - A CBer who advertises products
over the air.
Souped Up - A rig modified to run illegally
high power.
Sounding Choice - Clear, strong signal.
Sport City - Shreveport, Louisiana.
Splashed - Getting bleedover from another channel.
Splashover - Same thing as splashed.
Splatter - Same thing as splashover.
Spreading the greens - Cops giving out tickets.
Spud town - Boise, Idaho.
Squelch - Control on radio which silences the
speaker until a signal of a certain strength breaks through it.
SSB - Single-Sideband.
State Bear - State Trooper.
Stepped on - Reception squashed by bleedover
or another strong signal.
Stepped all over you - Similar to "Stepped
On".
Stop to get groceries - Stop and eat.
Straight Shot - Road is clear of police.
Suds - Beer
Super Slab - Highway.
Superdome city - New Orleans, Louisiana.
Suppository - Negative.
Sunbeam - A CBer who livens the channel
with witticisms.
Sweet thing - Female CB operator.
SWR - Standing Wave Ratio. An incorrect impedance
match can cause some of the transmitted signal to "reflect"
back to the transmitter, which can reduce your signal, and possibly
damage the Finals section of your transmitter. While a good match
(1:1) is desirable, anything under 2:1 is safe.
