- Aetna - Jayne's home planet, mined extensively for iron ore and houses a great deal of ironworks (Tangled)
- bad music - the likelihood of some kind of unpleasant trouble; term is possibly derived from "sad music", an audience participation callback from the Rocky Horror Picture Show (Must Get Out)
- blood - Reesho word that roughly translates to "kin" or "brother from another mother" (Must Get Out)
- brainpan rehab - psychiatric counseling (She Will Be Loved)
- Britchetta - appetizer consisting of fried bread piled high with fried mushrooms, fried bacon and fried tomatoes (Through With You)
- broadsheet - quick summation of daily events (Secret)
- brown-collar - one who is skilled in manual labor (Sunday Morning)
- Buddha George W. Shrub - Aetnian swear phrase used by welders to indicate extreme damage to a person's calm, roughly translates to "Jesus H. Roosevelt Christ" (Tangled)
- Celtic Core Bomb - Reesho boilermaker drink consisting of a shot glass containing a mixture of Reesho cream liquer and Reesho whiskey dropped into a mug of stout (Must Get Out)
- chibigar - a type of short cigar popular with Reesho men (Must Get Out)
- chippy - working-class person with slovenly habits (Through With You)
- chokecherry - hybrid of cherry and chokeberry, very sweet type of fruit (She Will Be Loved)
- cleanser - multi-purpose cleaning solution used as soap and shampoo (Harder to Breathe)
- crunch - a snack or small meal (Tangled)
- disc'-dancin' - disco dancing, an old-style of dance that is considered especially harsh and usually done under the influence of a stimulant (Shiver)
- donquito-mexi rolls - an exotic food consisting of a thin flat bread wrapped around crumbled and smooth proteins, cheese and occasionally some kind of vegetables (This Love)
- download - "tell me what you know" (Through With You)
- ever-child - non-insulting term for someone whose mental growth has been interrupted due to head trauma, genetic abnormality or other causes (Through With You)
- flesh bliss - pleasures of the flesh (Harder to Breathe)
- flush - money (Through With You)
- freshwash - a shower in world water (This Love)
- grafting - the process by which a LoveBot™ aligns with her programmer's wishes (Sweetest Goodbye)
- green-light district - section of town where prostitution is practiced (Must Get Out)
- hazy - a state of being which includes room for widely variant interpretations (Secret)
- keeper - refrigerating unit (Not Coming Home)
- kolka - carbonated beverage flavored with kola nuts (Must Get Out)
- orgy studio - club where members can pay an entrance fee and engage in anonymous sexual activity (Sunday Morning)
- poultry-fied - a portmanteau of "poultry" (as in "chickensh*t") and "petrified" (Not Coming Home)
- Reesho - ethnic group from the Core who are of predominantly Irish and Japanese descent (Must Get Out)
- rut-buddy - a person with whom one has sex, but not a relationship, also once known as a "fuck-buddy" in ancient terminology (Tangled)
- rut-sport - a situation in which one person is used by another solely for sexual gratification, also known as a "booty call" in ancient terminology (She Will Be Loved)
- saucy noodles - spaghetti and marinara sauce (Tangled)
- savor - taste (Through With You)
- sex bite - a hickey or a love bite (Shiver)
- shame the devil - be completely honest; comes from the saying "tell the truth and shame the devil" (Secret)
- sharing common legroom - sitting close together (Through With You)
- shiny points - proper recognition for saying a witty remark (Through With You)
- simple wicked - Aetnian phrase that means "sexually appealing" (She Will Be Loved)
- space operas - serial dramas featured on the free universal broadcasting systems, often feature ludicrous plots and lovemaking scenes with chocolate-covered strawberries (Sweetest Goodbye)
- spuds - synthetic potatoes (She Will Be Loved)
- sugar-sing - speak to a person in a deliberately beguiling manner (Must Get Out)
- sundark - darkening of the skin due to exposure to the sun (Must Get Out)
- swanky - a derogatory term for people from the Core, can indicate a fashionable style of dress, manners or speaking (Tangled)
- taback - tobacco (Must Get Out)
- turning donner - becoming cannibals (Must Get Out)
- universal standard years - equivalent to 365 cycles consisting of 24 hours, one standard Earth-That-Was solar year (Sweetest Goodbye)
- upmarket - high class, uptown (Tangled)
- wafer - person with a very slender, insubstantial body (Shiver)
- war paint - cosmetics (Sweetest Goodbye)
- world water - water that is found on planets and has been filtered through the environment (This Love)
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