Scopine vs Scopie - What's the difference?
scopine | scopie |
A tropane alkaloid found in a variety of plants including Scopolia species.
(UK, military, slang) An aerospace systems operator (ASOp) or fighter controller (FC) in the Royal Air Force.
* 1999 February 24, "Roger Gilmartin" (username), Leaving the RAF'', in uk.people.ex-forces, ''Usenet :
* 1999 , March 1, Gordon Clark (author), "Re:Leaving the RAF" in uk.people.ex-forces, Usenet [http://groups.google.com/group/uk.people.ex-forces/msg/81bc155dd3ab3c30]:
* 1999 August 19, "Roger G" (username), Type 80 Radar'', in uk.people.ex-forces, ''Usenet :
* 2000 February 23, "Steve McNamara" (username), RAF Brownside'', in uk.rec.subterranea, ''Usenet :
As a noun scopine
is a tropane alkaloid found in a variety of plants including scopolia species.As a proper noun scopie is
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(en noun)- I always thought we were paid more BECAUSE of the boredom factor. Certainly the air traffic sections worked just the same shifts, and stood their turn at ground defence like us scopies' so no cause for a ' scopie premium there !
- I don't regret joining as a scopie even though I wanted to be a Telecomms techie!
- Yup - Buchan scopie 75 - 77. What a good radar that was.
- Perhaps this site is something to do with the Scopies at Boulmer?