It’s been a few years since I left the field, but we had a lot of jargon and slang terms in EMS/Fire ... just a few ...
DFO’d ... “Done Fell Out” ... passed out.
vomikid ... vomited
Smuggling the Shotglass, or Smuggling the Pickle ... a reference to certain sorts of people who put things where they don’t belong and then require X-rays (seriously amusing) and medical intervention to “rectify” the situation.
“Delicious!” ... said about anything *not* actually edible or delicious. Taken from an elderly Jewish lady our crews often used to run on that used the word about everything ... memorably, her daughters new couch. (“It vas just deee-
lish-is.”
Ween’ed ... sent to a non-emergency situation.
LDD ... La-Dee-Dah ... being inappropriately nonchalant about something. aka: “back on the block”
HUA ... painful rectal condition involving the head.
CNI ... Chronic Nylon Insufficiency ... someone who needs to be put face down on the gurney, have the pole-strecher placed on top of them, 4-point restrained and buckled-in/strapped-down (hence the nylon) and have the Trundelenburg and Fowlers positioning options simultaneously activated on the gurney.
Yawb or Yawbs (plural) ... “you all”
Bessfitna ... “(you) had better ...” or “(you) had ought to” ... often used with “Yawbs”
God-Squading it ... those that believe they save the world by their mere presence.
John Wayne or “John Wayne’ing it” ... somebody who charges into a hot situation where there is live gunfire before police backup has arrived.
which of course leads to ...
Code 1000 / Signal 7 ... IDS/”In Deep sh*t” ... send lots of people with guns immediately.
“ROT” or “f*cking Rot”... Royal Oak Township.
(as a point of reference for those not from Detroit; this is a ghetto community bordered by Eight Mile Rd and adjacent to the Detroit neighborhood that Eminem’s movie “8 Mile” was filmed at.)
"Noflan" ... once upon a time possibly the most dangerous shopping mall in America. This was a place where the "security corridors" resembled something out of an Arnold Schwarzenegger movie.
We used to say it was where they put the "bullet" in "bulletin board" because security there had the habit of taking confiscated weapons and physically putting them on the xerox machine to make an image and then posting a photocopy of the weapon on the bulletin board in the security corridor ... amazing how well a MAC 10 comes out.
Shooting the tubes ... circling the drain ... about to check out ... cancel the subscription ...
NLW/RSN ... “Not Long for this World, Real Soon Now”.
"All spiked up" ... Prepared IVs for use. (Intravenous set-ups for drug or fluid administration)
Signal 9 ... lunchtime. Also known as MFLT ... MotherF*cking Lunch Time
“DROF Sign” ... as in, "he had the DROF sign" ... the imprint, in negative, that you are left with on your chest when you slam into the steering wheel of a Ford vehicle, unrestrained.
(DROF is "Ford" backwards ... the nameplate in the center of the steering wheel)