Vocabulary

Here are some handy terms for your gaming enjoyment! Look carefully and you might see yourself lampooned somewhere in here. Email me with more terms or comments, if you have them!

Term	Meaning	Example/Remarks
Buildings
rax	Barracks	'Going 3 rax' = lots of infantry; 'rax float'
cc	command center	'Floating a cc'
fac	factory	'cooking facs & going heavy metal'
gate/gw	Gateway	The good version of a barracks!
nex	nexus	'Kill the nex' -- kill off your lame opponents mining capability.
star/sg/port	starport or stargate	The terran/toss buildings that allow you to build air
templar thingie	citadel or archives.	Angel's generic term for building names she can't remember. Watch out especially for the warning "he has thingies!" or "he's going thingies!"
hat	hatchery	'Going 3 hat' -- slow to get zerglings, going to power (usually).
Strategic Terms
teching		Foregoing expansion, though not upgrades, usually, in order to climb the tech tree more rapidly for 'non-linear' units such as high templar or science vessels
powering		Expanding rapidly in order to have a very powerful economy. Typically multiple expansions, and weak early defense. Massing is the most usual way to proceed from here, although this can be combined with teching.
massing		1. In the context of an initial strategy, foregoing expansion and some upgrades, in order to get several controls/packs of 1-2 unit types into the game rapidly. A classic rush strategy. 2. In general context, building lots of units, mostly concentrating on 1-3 types.
upgrading		Could be teching, powering, or massing, but getting hard attack, defense, and speed (if applicable) upgrades for units you will be making a lot of.
dancing		pulling back the unit that is being attacked to save it while the rest of the units in its group continue attacking.
luring		drawing enemy units out (or in) by placing units near them, say for a storm.
gassing/gasser	Is mining gas.	Not necessarily teching, just mining gas. Something you look for when you scout.
natural/nat		The closest natural expansion to a given main "Blue expanding at his nat"
gimme		The next most logical expansion for a given main, if any.
backdoor		An assault on an opponent from an unexpected quarter. Often on the mineral lines. ("Drop zerg's backdoor with your reavers while I knock on his front door with my tanks")
1-12		Clock positions. 12 is top middle, 3 is right middle, 6 is bottom middle, 9 is left middle etc. (hit noon!)
float	Terran lift off	The action of lifting off one or more buildings; possibly offensively (see rax float); possibly defensively (see floater).
floater	Terran lift off	What annoying terrans do when you attack them without ranged units.
pylonboy, floaterboy		Annoying toss/terran players who hide pylons or buildings around the map after they've lost, just to delay the game ending.
cannonboy, turtleboy, sunkenboy		Annoying players who build lots of defenses at their chokes and 'turtle up'. Ruder than 'turtle'. Many cannonboys think that 12 cannons supported by one pylon is a pretty neat idea.
turtle		A player who simply surrounds himself with massive defenses.
control/pack	12 units.	'Got 2 controls of cracklots. Who should we hit?'
pop		1. the moment when a unit finishes building... it pops out. (eg "I'm popping wraiths to save you from those scary carriers Angel..."; popping medics soon) 2. to attack your opponent. (going to pop teal now) 3. what dying overlords do
cooking	warping, building, mutating.	"I'm cooking zealots" = building lots of zealots. "Cooking Obs" -- I finally have observatory and am building my first obs to save you from those nasty lurkers, Soy, since you again neglected to get detection!
psi-raid/reaver drop		A quick assault on an enemy's mineral line. ("dropping zerg main").
off cannon/ off bunker	Offensive Cannon, Offensive Bunker	Creating cannons/bunkers near (but out of sight) of an enemy's mineral line early in the game. Usually a nasty surprise.
Talking
sos	'Save Our Souls'	Help! What Soylent says a lot. He saves a keystroke over 'help' so he can better attack the 4 reavers with his pack of scv's!
omw	On My Way	What you hope your allies will say when you say "sos"
got it/ok/np		got it - I'm ok. What you want your allies to say after they've called out "SOS SOS SOS!!"
counter		What you should do after your ally has been attacked... What you should NEVER ask your ally about after she has told you to counter and WHILE she is desperately but skillfully fending off a double 5 pool with probes, unless you want her to get really irritated and start naming names like FrogPrince and making fun of you on her page!
np	No problem
ggg	go go go	Means I'm in position and going in on an attack
gp	Good Ping or... Going Private	Since gp is confusing, ac is preferred.
ac	Ally Chat	Using ally chat.
y	Yes or Why	Can be confusing. ya/yes is clearer.
nod, ya,yep	Yes
y?	Why	unamiguously 'why?'
get d.	Get Detection, Defense	What you have to say to Soylent when you see lurkers or dark temps.
Talk (usually) outside game.
gl	Good Luck	'Applies mostly to me when I get stuck with Angel' -- cuz she's such gl, naturally!
hf	Have Fun	What you hope all will have -- it's a game after all!
brb	Be right Back	or... bath room break
laff, larf	laugh	Angelisms, especially larf = slightly sardonic and cynical laugh.
backo	Back	backo - an Angel-ism that has rubbed off on me, but I try my best not copy by using the dull and boring 'back'
lame/gay		What Lotus usually says before, during, and after a 2v2.
Koreanisms
nice maner	Nice Manners	Note the spelling. A Koreanism. maner match is a variant.
yankee boy	American	What one says to Canadians when one is pretending to be Korean. Bugs them. Works well with southerners too!
bester,bestest	best	Korea Bester than Merica!
ok okokokok	Yes, Yes?	A more 'polite' form of Yes..
gogogogogo	Hurry up and go!	Koreans and 14 year olds. Moon and I use it too :)
ok okokokok
Unit Terms
peon, worker, probe, peasant	Drone, Probe, SCV.	The mining units.
lings	Zerglings	zerglings (usually unupgraded, though not necessarily)
cracklings	zerglings with legs	Are these any good vs. zealots? A good question. They work wonders against ranged defenses though!
lord	an overlord	good thing to pop if it comes into your base without an invitation
lots	Zealots	zealots (usually unupgraded, though not necessarily)
goons	Dragoons
reavs	reavers	could mean blding em, they're here, or that you're climbing that branch.
c&c/cnc	Carriers & Corsairs	No not some other strategy game! One of the better air combos in the game. Not good when it's the enemy that has them. Don't forget observers.
dt	Dark Templar	Can mean you're bldg em as in "going dt", more usually it's soy saying "dt!!! sos!!!"
ht	High Templar	as dt.
temps	templar in general	as in "going temps" -- going the templar archives technology branch.
cracklots	zealots with leg upgrades	Build these. Thank me now or later.
mnm's/m&m's/ medirines	marines and medics	Annoying little buggers.
heavy metal	Terran armor	Tanks, maybe some goliaths. usually not vultures.

Free Bonus Quotes "fire it up" - said after Soylent's firebats have done a significant amount of roasting. "Crazy Eights" - what Soylent calls his wraith pack, as they are on hotkey 8. "storm, baby, storm" -- what Angel says on those rare occasions when she can get several storms off and melt some of the enemy's troops! "I do not command a starship: I command a force of nature" what Angel says on those even rarer occasions when she is wiping out an annoying terran or zerg with 12 carriers.