Metal Detecting Lingo Glossary

civ - civil war item
rev - revolutionary war item
juice - a juicy good target in the bottom of the plug
roundness - coins
 
juice - a juicy good target in the bottom of the plug


Southern version:

Gravy- a very nice target in the bottom of the plug. Usage: I hope there is some gravy in this plug.



Brian
 
There was a couple in that Diggers show I had never heard of.

Nectar was one of them, the other was "cologne" which is suppose to mean "colonial"?
 
Turtlefoots

headstamps will now be know as Turtlefoots

next time your out hunting with buddies and you dig a headstamp yell to your buddy "got another Turtlefoot"
 
105 definitions. Hope I got most of them. Too much Excel :grin:

Beach hunters - detectorists who mainly hunt beaches
beep beep - the sound certain detectors make.
Black gunk - in the water where the sand don't move
Black sand - iron particles that are so small they look like sand
Blanket line - first 10 ft in the dry sand, from the high tide line
Buoy - a close friend
Cache - a large amount of coins or jewelry buried together in a container
Cans law - shards, shreds, particulate, remains of, low cost metal containers encapsulating beverages, and various food items.
Cartwheel - silver dollar
Civ - civil war item
Clad - any US coin that is "sandwiched" with alloys of different metals.
Coil - the round thing at the end of your detector
Coinshooters - detectorist who look mainly for coins
Coldstone - opposite hot rock
Dig it - just dig it up
Digger - the tool used to dig your targets
Disc - ability of your detector to reject unwanted metal
Display - the target identification on your detector
Dry sand - The sand people lay there blankets and lawn chairs
Erosion - a part of the beach that will strip right down to bedrock.
Fall Thrus - Targets that are small enough to fall through the holes in the scoop, could be a 22 cal. bullet or a diamond earring.
Find - something you found
Finds - the good stuff you found
Fish scale - a small silver nickel made up to 1921
Fishin fer Spacerocks - detecting for meteorites
Floaters - Targets, usually pull tabs or small pieces of aluminum that tend to flutter out of the scoop.
Fossiker - detectorist for gold or relics/coins
Freestyling - knocking on doors, driving around, hunting immediately after getting permission
Globola - a black corroded glob
Go for a dig....going metal detecting
Gold in the Blood - gold fever
Gridding the beach - detecting using a pattern as you walk along, most common is "straight" or "circular"
Ground balance - adjusting the detector to the mineralization in the soil
Hard wired - a modification or quick fix to your detector
Herring Choker - New Brunswicker
HH - happy hunting
Hipmount - mounting the control box of your detector with a belt on your waist
Holey S**T - accidentally set your volume switch wide open
Hot rock - a black volcanic rock, meteorite, or a rock that gives a off a metallic signal
Hunting - grabbing your detector and going!
IH - Indian head cent
Injun - Indian head cent
Juice - a juicy good target in the bottom of the plug
Karked it - something that just died on the goldfield
Keepers - the targets that you keep whether good or bad
Leaveitright - A very large buried junk target, as in leave it right there
Loner - a detectorist that doesn't belong to a club
Loonie - our one dollar coin
MDing - metal detecting
Merc - mercury dime
Mint mark - a special mark placed on coins to let you know where or who made it.
Mole w/ Helmet - A target that seems to move under the ground from one spot to another
Multi-targs - an area with a lot of targets
Mung - That nasty seaweed that tangles in your coil while
Newbie - someone new at the hobby
Newfie - a Newfoundlander
Nice haul - a comment on your great finds
Nitro - A very nice looking piece of jewelry that turn out to be fake.
Nuggetshooter - detecting for gold nuggs
NUT - Newly unearthed treasures
o !!!! - briar vine in face
OH NO - someone walking up to you real fast with a mean look on their face!
Old timer - prospector looking for gold
Omg! - SNAKE
Poed - finding out you just spent the last hour MDing in a patch of poison Oak
Potato gold extractor - ask me about that one, old miner's trick to separate gold from mercury
Probe - A tool to pinpoint the target while still in ground
Pulseor PI - a waterproof detector that locates all metal targets
Relic hunters - detectorists who hunt mainly woods
Rev - revolutionary war item
Rosie - silver Roosevelt dime
Roundness - coins
Royality - Sharing your finds with the property owner.
Sand stuff - normal trash you find in the sand
Seeded hunt - a hunt where the finds have been scattered or planted
Shng ding - like 'thingy' ,something you find and not sure what it is
SLQ - Standing Liberty Quarter
Sludge - blackish, smelly beach sand coins are found in
Snippers and snappers - small items you find
Spaz - what your MD does just before the batteries run out
Spud - A Prince Edward Islander
Swingin' coil time - the amount of time you spent detecting
Swish - water dig
Target ID - a meter or display that shows you what your target might be.
Tector - metal detector
The machine - your detector
TH'ing - treasure hunting
Thingy - something you find and don't know what it is
Tone ID - different sounds identifying different target's sounds
Topsoil - first 4 inches of ground
Tweak it - adjusting the detector
Twoonie - our two dollar coin
UFO - Unidentified Ferrous Object
UMO - Unidentified Metal Object
Vicky - any coin with the bust of Queen Victoria on it usually from the years 1858 to around 1900
VLF - auto discriminates against iron
Walker - Walking Liberty Half Dollar
Wet sand - The high tide line to the low tide line, at low tide
What was that - What you say or think when something brushes your legs under the water.
Whatzit - (see UMO)
Wheatie - wheat back cent
Where'd He Go - What you say when that snake that you have been watching out of the corner of your eye, That has been swimming on top of the water suddenly disappears.
Whispers - low, barely audible tones
WOT coil - a 15 inch coil made by Coil Tech, for Minelab detectors
Zincoln(s) - 1982 and newer Copper Plated Zinc Pennies, Usually Corroded when Dug up
 
Alright, so it looks like I'm 5 years late on this thread, but I did not see my all-time favorite MDing slang word ...

beavertail - the old time, triangular-shaped pull tabs that were actually pulled off of the can when opened. :)

Never heard it before, but is a great description!
 
Never!

civ - civil war item
rev - revolutionary war item
juice - a juicy good target in the bottom of the plug
roundness - coins

Those terms are made up by those idiots on that TV show "Diggers". I will NEVER use any of the terms those wingnuts spit out! No offense.
 
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