You’re not alone in the event you’ve ever felt such as you wanted a dictionary or a translator app after hanging out with a bunch of skilled RVers. Lengthy-time RV lovers have a lingua franca that’s all their very own — and conversations can typically require an RV lingo glossary.

That’s why we put collectively an inventory of 30 frequent RV lingo phrases. From boondocking to mooch docking, toads to TTs, schoolies to sticks and bricks, learn on for key definitions to assist demystify RVing for rookies.

Boondocking:

Tenting outdoors a delegated campground off-grid, with none electrical energy, sewer, or water hookups. You may boondock in a distant spot, an city setting, a forest, a seashore, or perhaps a metropolis. Also referred to as “dry” or “wild” tenting.

Bumper pull:

Towing an RV utilizing a ball and hitch on the towing automobile.

Caravanning:

A bunch of RVers that journey and camp collectively in teams, every with their very own automobile.

Class A:

The biggest, self-contained, motorized RVs; could also be powered by a fuel or diesel engine—normally 26 to 45 ft in size and typically often known as coaches.

Class B:

Smaller, self-contained, motorized RVs are typically often known as camper vans.

Bumper pull:

Class C: The center-size class of self-contained, motorized RVs. Often, 21 to 41 ft lengthy.

Dinghy:

Any automobile towed by one other automobile; could also be a towed automotive (see “toad”) or a journey trailer (see “TT”).

Dispersed tenting:

Tenting on public land that’s managed however doesn’t supply hookups or different facilities. Some spots could have designated websites, whereas different dispersed areas are open.

Dogbone:

An adapter that allows you to hook your RV as much as several types of electrical shops.

Fiver/5er:

The trailer towed behind a truck with a coupler over the truck mattress.

Full-Timer/Full-Timing/FTRV:

One who lives of their RV full-time, with no residence base (see “sticks and bricks”).

Gasser:

RVs with gas-powered engines.

Genny:

A generator used to offer electrical energy to your rig when hookups aren’t obtainable.

Grey Tank:

The holding tank incorporates water utilized in your bathe and sinks.

Mooch Docking:

Staying totally free on somebody’s property (typically household or pals), with or with out electrical hookups. Also referred to as “driveway browsing.”

One in, one out:

A rule of thumb that claims once you deliver an merchandise into the RV, an merchandise should exit. It’s a approach to hold organized in a small house.

Half-Timer/Half-Timing/PTRV:

One who spends a whole lot of time travelling of their RV but in addition has a stationary residence base to return to between journeys.

Pop-up camper:

A towable camper that expands to create extra inside house and collapses for journey.

Schoolie:

A faculty bus that’s been transformed into an RV.

Snowbirds:

RVers who chase the nice and cozy climate, heading south in winter and north in summer season.

Stealth tenting:

Surreptitiously spending the night time in a single’s camper whereas maintaining lights and noises to a minimal. Some cities enable campers with out occupants to park on streets in a single day, and plenty of municipalities don’t enable anybody to sleep of their RV outdoors legally designated websites.

Sticks and bricks:

A house base that’s in a set location, i.e., a house on land, not a house on wheels.

Smelly slinky:

The hose that connects your holding tank to a sewer inlet.

Technomads:

Those that use digital expertise to work whereas on the highway. It typically refers to full-timers who work for a residing utilizing the web.

Toad:

A “towed automotive” pulled behind an RV.

Tribe:

Pleasant RV lingo for the RVing neighborhood; an affectionate time period for a bunch of full-timers.

TT/Journey Trailer:

A non-motorized camper pulled by a automobile.

Two-two-two rule:

A rule of thumb adopted by many skilled RVers: Restrict driving to 200 miles per day or much less; arrive by 2 pm, so you’ve loads of time to arrange and benefit from the afternoon; and keep in every location at the least two nights so to discover the world.

Wallydocking:

Parking in a single day in a Walmart car parking zone. (You should definitely verify every retailer’s coverage earlier than settling in for the night time!)

Weekend Warrior:

Nickname for many who reside in stationary properties (“sticks and bricks”) throughout the week and enterprise out of their RVs on the weekends.

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