So you want to hang out with the coolest section, aka the colorguard......
here's a dictionary to print out and bring along to practice

1) air flag : to twirl with no actual flag (a la air guitar)
2) alpha, beta, gamma, delta, epsilon: the new guard sorority.  Just kidding, these are the names of our five short routines.  If you call one out randomly very loudly during practice, all 16 of us will stop what we're doing and proceed to twirl very profusely for 32 counts.  Kinda pavlovian.
3) crutch: the rubber stoppers at the end of the pole
4) diag: a diagonal, as in drill
5) diva: a person who can utilize ANY piece of equipment and use their body as well to make it look like an effortless thing
6) drop spins: the fundamentals to work, up and down spins
7) guard: short for color guard
8) hoo-ha: short for brouhaha, a ruckus, a big to-do; also used to refer to the male genitalia
9) hooking up:  what always happens to someone on the away trips (see: Florida, freshman year, and any senior for the story)
10) moxy: what all guard chics possess- that natural feminine kickassness
11) pole: the metal part of the flag (ours are six feet this year), also known to be used in this sentence "he wishes he had a six foot pole"
12) raaaaaaaiiiiiiiiiiiiight: (pronounced "raw-it")- yeah, ok, i believe you
13) sail: what happens when the silk of the flag gets caught around the tip
14) silk: the fabric part of the flag
15) weighted:  what our flags are not, making them ultra light, except for when we do dynamite 8 million times in a row
16) whatever mary.... : derogatory term, used most often by Mr. C. to denote a stupid suggestion or asinine comment
i.e. Mandy: We're totally going to march in the rain.
     Mr. C: Whatever Mary.
 

Now that you've got the lingo, try holding a conversation with us.