Deal-slang

DEAL-SLANG

A

Acceptable losses: what the gambler would consider the least acceptable way to do business

Achieve zero visibility: to hide

B

Bad idea: a risky deal, potentially ending not being profitable

Bantha fodder: when a promised deal did not come through

Big finish: unexpected violent or dramatic ending to a deal

Bilateral business: multiple deals

Black box: deal for technology of a military nature

Black hole: a deal that has gone so bad that the consequences seem to have no end

Boba-ize: to do something stupid that would ruin a deal - like falling into the Sarlacc

Boys-in-black: Imperial customs officers

Boys-in-brown: Espo troops

Boys-in-white: stormtroopers

BTAD: boring typical average deal

C

Cavalry: Rebel Alliance forces, later New Republic forces

Chroma-Neeka: someone who was adept at slipping through the cracks in governments and large organizations

Client: paying recipient of a deal

Crash-and-bash: heist made to appear as common piracy

Cue the soundtrack: turning around completely a bad deal at the appropriate moment

Cut out/Count out: ending a deal before its completion

D

Deal: business transaction

Death Star: a big finish ending with a bang

Drooling Drebble: bounty hunter

Drooling Drebble with fangs: a nasty bounty hunter

E

Escape pod: painless way out of a bad deal

F

Fashionably dead: what all gamblers, swindlers and the like avoided to end up as

G

Good idea: an above average deal

Grand idea: an above average deal sounding too good to be true (often they were)

Great idea: a risky deal, nonetheless profitable

H

Hardware: a deal for weapons and military technology; roughly the same as "black box"

Head for hyperspace: opting out of a deal

I

Idea: average deal in its planning state

Inherit: to acquire illegally

K

Kessel run: turning a dangerous deal into more deals; overextending oneself to the point of it becoming dangerous

L

Life detection: checking for intelligence in potential clients

M

Mon Cals in a fish bowl: many easy big deals from less than intelligent clients

N

Nicely dressed: being blatantly heavily armed

NRC: not really committed (a pun on "New Republic Council")

Nuts-and-bolts: a deal for electronics, droids, or computers

P

Pretty all-purpose object: object purportedly of value

S

Scanning: fishing for new clients

Sevari sidestep: elegantly eluding the authorities

Shim: swindling one's clients

Slug breath: Hutt

Software: deal for recreation items like holos and alcohol

Stompasseur: AT-AT walker

Stylishly dressed: being discretely armed

Sweets-and-seasonings: deal for spice

T

Throw a hydrospanner in the works: forcing someone's business to an end

Top of the tanks: making a risky deal seem more attractive to a client

Tramp-with-a-cramp: unreliable tramp freighter or smuggler

Vaccinate: prevent a deal from falling apart

Wookinate: rendering an enemy harmless by use of excessive force

Examples of deal-slang in use

Deal-slang expressions were used vividly in conversation among swindlers, conmen, dealmakers and the like, often resulting in some colorful deliberately ambiguous utterances as illustrated by the following attested utterances:

1: "This is a very bad idea!"

―Deal-slang for: "This is a very risky deal"

2: "Cue the soundtrack, boys, I'm back and I'm not happy to see you."

―Deal-slang for: "Turn this bad deal around, boys, because I don't like what I'm seeing."

3: "I'm cutting myself out."

―Deal-slang for: "I'm opting out of this deal."

4: "Count me out!"

―Deal-slang for: "I do not want to be involved in this deal."

5: "Sounds like she's on the Kessel Run."

―Deal-slang for: "She seems to have overextended herself with more deals than she can handle."

6:"I tell you, it was like blasting Mon Cals in a fishbowl."

―Deal-slang for: "I tell you, I got so many easy deals out of this client."

7: "You go on ahead, I'll wookienate that scout walker."

―Deal-slang for: "You go on ahead, I'll destroy that scout walker."