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CB slang (commonly called "CB Talk") are terms that those operating CB radio used mainly during the CB craze of the 1970s and 1980s. Some of these slang terms are still in use with their original meanings, others not used at all and some have changed meaning. This list shows the historical meanings.

Popular slang terms

Law enforcement officers and their equipment

• "Astronaut" – police plane or helicopter
• "Bear" – a police officer. The terms "Smokey" & "Bear" are both direct references to Smokey Bear, a character image commonly seen along U.S. highways, as part of warnings not to cause wildfires. He wears a flat-brimmed forest ranger's hat very similar to the hat included in many highway patrol uniforms in the U.S. It also refers to their attitude toward most truckers in general.
• "Bear Cave" / "Bear's Den" / "Bear's Lair" – a police station.
• "Bear / Smokey in a plain brown wrapper" – a law officer in an unmarked police car. The term "plain white wrapper" is sometimes used, depending on the color of the vehicle.
• "Bear Food" / "Bear bait" – vehicle speeding without CB.
• "Bear In the Air" / "Fly in the sky" / "Spy in the sky" – a police aircraft. While state police often use fixed-wing airplanes to monitor highway traffic, "fly" refers specifically to a helicopter.
• "Bear In the Grass" / "Smokey in the bush" – a speed trap.
• "Bear Taking Pictures" – police with radar.
• "Bear With Ears" – a police officer listening to others on the CB
• "Black and White" – Highway Patrol.
• "Blue Light" / "Blue Light Special" – a law enforcement vehicle, especially with a stopped motorist.
• "Boy Scouts" – State Police.
• "Camera" – police radar unit.
• "Catch Car" – police car past radar set-up.
• "Checkpoint Charlie" – Old CB slang for a police checkpoint placed to look for drunk drivers, etc. This looks like a roadblock.
• "City Kitty" / "City Bear" – Refers to local law enforcement monitoring a particular stretch of interstate which runs through their jurisdiction.
• "County Mountie" – a Sheriff's deputy car.
• "Cub Scouts" – Sheriffs' Deputies.
• "Diesel Cop" / "D.O.T. Bear" – State Department of Transportation personnel, usually enforcing weight limits and safety rules (brakes & tires).
• "Disco Lights" – the flashing emergency lights of a law enforcement vehicle.
• "Evel Knievel" – cop on a motorcycle.
• "Full-Grown" / "Full Grown Bear" – a state policeman/trooper.
• "Got Bit By A Bear" – Received A Ticket.
• "Kojak with a Kodak" - a police officer with a radar gun.
• "Gum ball machine" / "bubble gum machine" – refers to a popular style of rotating mirror light used by many state police and some other law enforcement agencies at the time, however the term can refer to any law enforcement vehicle. It looked somewhat like the round style of 'penny' gumball machines. It was basically a clear cylinder, like an upside down jar, with lights and a spinning mirror system inside. It was usually mounted on the center of the roof.
• "Leo" – short for L aw E nforcement O fficer
• "Local Yokel" / "City Kitty" / "Town Clown" – a law officer with a city or township police force, seldom encountered on interstate highways.
• "Mama Bear" / "Honey bear" – a female law enforcement officer.
• "Miss Piggy" – a pejorative term for a female law enforcement officer.
• "Paper Hanger" – police giving speeding ticket.
• "Picture-taker" / "Smokey taking pictures" / "Smokey bear is taking a picture" / "Kojak with a Kodak" – a law officer monitoring traffic with a radar gun. Today, this can also refer to an automated speed camera.
• "Polar Bear" – an all-white highway patrol car
• "Plain Brown Wrapper" – Unmarked police car (Often referred to by the car's actual color)
• "Radio Car" / "Super Trooper" - Either a marked or unmarked state trooper vehicle sporting additional antenna on the trunk or sides of the vehicle.
• "Sex Lights" – Got pulled over
• "Sky Bear" / "Spy in the sky" – police helicopter.
• "Smokey" – a law officer. A "smokey report" is what CB users say when they have information on a law officer, such as location or current activities.
• "Smokey on Four Legs" – Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
• "Snake In the Grass" – police car radar usually hidden amongst tall cat tails
• "Tijuana Taxi" – A marked police car.

Australia

• "Candy Car" – Highway Patrol Police Car usually with high-visibility Police decals (Australia)
• "Flash for Cash" – Speed Camera (Australia)

Trucks and other non-police vehicles

• "Aircraft Carrier" – Truck carrying a disassembled aircraft, helicopter or a small plane.
• "Anchor Clanker" – Boat trailer.
• "Anteater" – a Kenworth T600/T660 tractor, because of the long sloping tilt up hood.
• "Baboon Butt" – a Kenworth T2000 tractor, because of the grille styling.
• "Band-aid Buggy" / "Body Box" / "Blood Box" / "Bone Box" / "Meat Wagon" – Ambulance.
• "Bean" – a Ford Pinto
• "Big Orange" – Schneider truck.
• "Blinkin Winkin" – School bus.
• "Blue Bird" – a Marten Transport truck
• "Bob-tail" – a semi-tractor operating without a trailer.
• "Bulldog" – a Mack Tractor, noted for the bulldog hood ornament.
• "Bullfrog" – An ABF truck
• "Bull Rack"/"Cattle Wagon" – Livestock truck.
• "Buster Brown" – a United Parcel Service truck.
• "Buzzard Truck" – a Stevens Transport truck, because the birds on the truck all face the same direction as if flying in a circle.
• "Cab-over" – term for tractors designed with the cab directly over the engine
• "Camper" – a RV, such as a Motorhome. AKA a "Portable House"
• "Cheese Wagon" – A school bus. See also "Swiss Cheese Wagon", "Half Cheese, "Little Cheese".
• "Chicken Choker" – Poultry truck.
• "Church on Wheels" – a bus belonging to a church
• "Circus Wagon" – Monofort truck.
• "Covered Wagon" – a trailer that resembles a Covered Wagon of the old west, normally used for carrying steel rolls.
• "Convict Wagon" – Prison Transport used by the Department Of Corrections, terminology is named for the caged wagons used to haul convicts to prison and/or to executions in the US in the 19th century. Usually it is a large bus that is the size of a standard city bus, painted white, has the D.O.C. markings on it, state or Federal markings on it as well.
• "Cornbinder"/"Cornfield Cadillac"/"Barnyard Buick" – a Navistar International truck (formerly International Harvester).
• "Corn Flaker" – (CFI) Consolidated Freight Lines truck.
• "Draggin Wagon" – Wrecker.
• "Flag Waver Taxi" – Highway construction truck.
• "Flat rack" flatbed trailer
• "Four-wheeler" – While this is commonly used to refer to a four-wheel-drive vehicle (such as a jeep or pickup), among truck drivers it refers to any vehicle with only 2 axles, as distinguished from an "eighteen-wheeler" (a semi truck).
• "Freightshaker" – another term for a Freightliner Trucks tractor
• "Half Cheese" – A short school bus, usually for handicapped children.
• "Jimmy" – a GMC tractor
• "K-Whopper" / "K-Wobbler" / "KW" – a Kenworth Tractor
• "Kiddy Car" – Refers to a school bus. Some bus drivers have a CB and will say " Kiddy Car stopping ahead"
• "Little Cheese" – A small school bus, usually built on a 1-ton van chassis (aka cutaway).
• "Military Carrier"/ "Soldier Man" /"GI-Joe" - Truck carrying Hummers, soldiers, even Tanks, other military equipment.
• "Pay Wagon"/"Piggy Bank" – a armored car, usually full of money as it goes from place to place, then to a bank.
• "Pete" / "Petercar" / "Poor Boy" – a Peterbilt Tractor
• "Pie Truck"/"Pollock Express" – (PIE) Pacific Intermountain Express truck.
• "Pony Express" – Mail hauler.
• "Portable Barn Yard" – Cattle truck.
• "Portable Parking Lot" / "Mobile Parking Lot" – a car hauler
• "Pregnant Rollerskate" – a Volkswagen Beetle.
• "Pumpkin" – a Schneider National, Inc. truck.
• "Reefer" – a refrigerated trailer, used for transporting foodstuffs and other perishable cargo.
• "Roach Coach" – Lunch wagon
• "Rollerskate" – Family Car/Truck/SUV
• "Rolling refinery"/"Portable Gas Station" – a tank truck carrying fuel.
• "Sail Boat" – Viking Freight
• "Salt Shaker" – a snowplow
• "ShakeyLiner" / "Freightshaker" – a Freightliner Trucks tractor.
• "Shanty Shaker" – Mobile home hauler.
• "Skateboard" – a flatbed truck or trailer.
• "Suicide jockey" – a truck carrying explosives.
• "Super Chickens" – Yellow Freight System trucks.
• "Swiss Cheese Wagon" – A school activity bus. So called because they are usually painted white.
• "T2 Me Too" – A Peterbilt 387 tractor. Noted for its near clonelike resemblance to the Kenworth T-2000
• "Thirteen letter shit spreader" – An International.
• "Thermos Bottle" – Driver pulling a chemical trailer
• "Trash Can" – Transcontinental truck.
• "Wiggle Wagon/Widowmaker/Set of Joints" – A semi truck pulling two or more trailers in tandem.
• "Weiner Wagon" – A Werner Transport Tractor
• "Yard Goat/Yard Mule" – Short truck used for pulling semi-trailers in shipping yards

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