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Fightin’ Texas Aggie Terminology
Here are some of the terms traditionally used at Texas A&M.
- Aggie
- a student at Texas A&M who displays true Aggie spirit; also sometimes used to mean any A&M student
- Aggieland
- the Texas A&M campus in College Station
- Air Krap
- a C.T. in an Air Force outfit
- artillery
- beans
- baby
- mustard
- bag
- a bed
- Batt
- The Battalion, the student newspaper
- battery acid
- orange juice
- bib
- a napkin
- Black Belt
- a fish or Pisshead
- blankets
- pancakes
- blood
- ketchup
- B.Q.
- a member of the Fightin' Texas Aggie Band
- bullneck
- meat
- cackle
- eggs
- campo
- a campusology question, about Aggie tradition or history
- chow
- mealtime
- cold cow
- ice cream
- cow
- milk
- crapper
- a restroom or toilet; yelled before a toilet is flushed
- Crunchy
- a C.T. in an Army outfit
- crystal
- a glass or cup
- C.T.
- a member of the Fightin' Texas Aggie Corps of Cadets; also sometimes used to mean a Corps member not in the Band
- cush
- dessert
- cut
- (1) the killing of trees in a forested area for Bonfire; (2) a deficiency found during an inspection
- day duck
- an Aggie living off campus
- Dead Zip
- an Aggie who's finished his senior year
- deal
- bread
- dirt
- pepper
- dope
- coffee
- "Drop!"
- the command to assume the position for push-ups
- drop handles
- to call an upperclassman or thing by its real name
- elbows
- macaroni
- elephant
- (a symbol of) an Aggie senior
- fish
- an Aggie freshman
- fizz
- soft drinks
- flush
- to end a romantic relationship with someone
- flush letter
- a Dear John letter
- frat rat
- a student at Texas A&M in a fraternity
- frog
- (1) an Aggie transfer student; (2) a C.T. who enters the Corps after his fish year
- frozen sky
- ice
- gig
- a minor demerit
- GPR
- grade-point ratio
- grease
- butter
- handle
- a title or alternate name; e.g., "fish" or "Mister"
- "Headache!"
- the yelled warning that a tree has been killed and is about to fall at Bonfire cut
- hole
- a fish's room
- horizontal engineering
- napping
- horsefeed
- corn
- "Howdy!"
- the official greeting of Texas A&M
- hump it
- to assume the position for yelling at maximum volume (bent over at the waist with hands on knees)
- hump-it
- a yell specific to an outfit or dorm
- Jarhead
- a C.T. in a Navy/Marine outfit
- Leather Legs
- an C.T. senior
- load
- the loading of Bonfire logs onto trucks for transport from cut site to stack site
- lube
- gravy
- mud
- chocolate milk
- mush
- oatmeal
- non-reg
- a student at Texas A&M not in the Corps
- Ol' Army
- (1) the way Texas A&M used to be and should always be; (2) a long time ago
- ol' lady
- an Aggie's roommate
- piss on an upperclassman's leg
- to make an excuse to an upperclassman
- Pisshead
- an Aggie sophomore
- pitchfork
- a fork
- platter
- a plate
- popeye
- spinach
- pot
- a helmet used while building Fightin' Texas Aggie Bonfire
- Prexy
- the president of Texas A&M
- privilege
- a prerogative merited by virtue of rank
- pull out
- to assume a privilege not yet earned
- Quad
- the quadrangle where the Corps dorms are located
- ram
- a major demerit
- rabbit
- salad
- reg
- syrup
- "Rest!"
- the command meaning "Be quiet!"
- saber
- a knife
- sack out
- to engage in horizontal engineering
- sand
- salt
- sand and
- salt and pepper
- sawdust
- sugar
- s.b.
- a student at Texas A&M in a sorority
- scabs
- cereal
- scope out
- to look at
- Sergebutt
- an Aggie junior
- shingles
- crackers
- shot
- peas
- shotgun
- Tabasco sauce
- shovel
- a spoon
- sky
- water
- sour
- lemon
- spuds
- potatoes
- stack
- (1) the building of Bonfire on campus; (2) the six-tiered Bonfire structure itself
- stud
- tea
- sugar report
- a letter from a girlfriend or boyfriend
- Sully
- the Lawrence Sullivan Ross statue in front of the Academic Building on campus
- sunshine
- carrots
- tadpole
- a C.T. who enters the Corps halfway through his fish year
- teasipper (also: teasip or 'sip)
- a student at t.u.
- treetops
- broccoli
- t.u.
- that little community college in austin
- tub
- a bowl
- 12th Man
- the student body at an Aggie athletic event
- two-percenter
- a student at Texas A&M who does not display true Aggie spirit
- wheels
- doughnuts
- whip out
- to introduce oneself to an upperclassman
- White Belt
- a Sergebutt or Zip
- wiggle
- Jell-O
- wildcat
- (1) a class-specific yell of exhilaration; (2) pineapple
- winchester
- Worcestershire sauce
- worms
- spaghetti
- yardbird
- chicken
- yell
- the equivalent of a cheer at any other school (except much louder); usually followed by a wildcat
- Yell Leader
- one of three Zips and two Sergebutts chosen to lead the 12th Man in yells
- Zip
- an Aggie senior