Glossary of words and phrases/C


 * C3
 * Cadet
 * Cady
 * Cag
 * Cagnas
 * Cain and Abel (rhyming slang)
 * Cake walk
 * Calm-Laylas
 * Camel, The
 * Camel Corps, The
 * Camelier
 * Camel-Wallah
 * Camouflage
 * Camp-followers
 * Canard
 * Canary
 * Cane, The
 * Cane, To
 * Canned up
 * Cannon fodder
 * Canteen eggs
 * Canteen medal
 * Canteen stinker
 * Canuck
 * Cap badge
 * Cape of Good Hope (rhyming slang)
 * Capitulation
 * Caprete
 * Captain (rank)
 * Carfindo
 * Carl the caretaker's in charge
 * Carney
 * Carry on
 * Cart
 * Cartel
 * Carving knife (rhyming slang)
 * Casabianc
 * Cashed in
 * Castor oil artist
 * Casualties of the Great War
 * Category man
 * Cats, The
 * Cat stabber
 * Cat walk, The
 * Caterpillar
 * Catsood
 * Caulk
 * Cavalry
 * CB
 * Ceiling
 * Cells
 * Cenotaph, The
 * Centimes (Centimi, Centisimi)
 * Central Flying School
 * Central Powers
 * Centre of Information
 * Ceylon Planters' Rifle Corps
 * Chain, Who pulled your
 * Challenge ships
 * Chance one's arm
 * Chancer
 * Char
 * Char D'assaut
 * Charley
 * Charley Pope
 * Charlie Noble
 * Charming wife
 * Chat
 * Chat up, To
 * Chat, Bombing the
 * Chatham rats
 * Chatty
 * Chatty but happy
 * Check
 * Cheese it
 * Cheerio!
 * Chemist, The
 * Chemozzle
 * Cherry nobs
 * Chest, Chuck a
 * Chestnuts
 * Chew the fat
 * Chewed up, To be
 * Chicken The
 * Chicot
 * China, Old
 * Chinese attack
 * Chinese Rolls Royce
 * Chink
 * Chinny
 * Chin wag
 * Chip in
 * Chippy chap
 * Chips
 * Chit
 * Choker
 * Chokey
 * Chow up
 * Christians arise
 * Christmas tree order, In
 * Christmas truce, The
 * Chuck
 * Chuck a dummy
 * Chuck one's hand in
 * Chuck one's weight about
 * Chuck up
 * Chum, Long eared
 * Chum, Long faced
 * Chum, Long haired
 * Chummy ship
 * Chuprow (Chub-a-row, Chipperow)
 * Church-by-hand
 * Churchyard clock, As many faces as a
 * Cinch
 * Cinema
 * Circus
 * CIV
 * Civvies
 * Civvy kip
 * Clack
 * Clacker
 * Clean and polish – We're winning the war
 * Clean as a button stick
 * Click
 * Clickety click
 * Client
 * Clink
 * Clinker
 * Clobber
 * Clod
 * Clods
 * Clout
 * Clutching hand, The
 * CMAR
 * CMB
 * CO
 * Coal box
 * Coal heaver
 * Cockpit
 * COD
 * Code
 * Coffee cooler
 * Coffin nail
 * Coggage (Coggidge)
 * Coil up one's ropes
 * Colco-Pari
 * Cold feet
 * Cold meat ticket
 * Cold, To have someone
 * Cold, To leave one
 * Colonel (rank)
 * Colour Sergeant (rank)
 * Colours, The
 * Colours, Bayonets and Drums in the City of London
 * Columbus, The Knights of
 * Column, To dodge the
 * Column of Route
 * Comb, The
 * Combatant
 * Come it (To come the old soldier; to come the old man)
 * Come the double
 * Comic business
 * Comic cuts
 * Coming the acid
 * Commandant
 * Commandeer
 * Commander
 * Commissariat
 * Commission
 * Commo
 * Commodore
 * Commonwealth of Nations
 * Commonwealth War Graves Commission
 * Communes of France
 * Company (military unit)
 * Company Quartermaster Sergeant (rank)
 * Company Sergeant Major (rank)
 * Compree
 * Comrades of the mist
 * Conchy
 * Conk out
 * Consolidate
 * Conspicuous Gallantry Cross
 * Consul
 * Contemptibles, The Old
 * Contour chasing
 * Contraband of War
 * Contract, Mess up the
 * Convalesce
 * Cooker
 * Cook of the grot
 * Cookhouse official
 * Cook's tour
 * Cooler, The
 * Coop, The
 * Coopetty coop
 * Cooshy
 * Cooter Goosht
 * Coots, cooty
 * Coppa dah
 * Corned dog
 * Cornstalks, The
 * Corporal (rank)
 * Corps (Army)
 * Corpse ticket
 * Cosh
 * Cot, On the
 * Coughing Clara
 * Council of War
 * Couple o' doorsteps
 * Courrier de L'air
 * Cow climbed up a hill
 * Cow feed
 * Crab
 * Crab, A land
 * Crab grenade
 * Crackers, Get the
 * Cramp one's style
 * Crappo
 * Crash
 * Crash dive
 * Crawl
 * Crawling with
 * Crawling on one's eyebrows
 * Creased, To be
 * Creating
 * Creeping barrage
 * Crib
 * Cricket ball
 * Crime
 * Criq
 * Crown, The
 * Crown and Anchor
 * Crucifix Corner
 * Crucifixion
 * Cruiser
 * Crummy
 * Crump
 * Crush
 * Crusher
 * Crystal Palace, HMS
 * Crystal Palace, The
 * Cubby hole, cubby hutch
 * Cuckoo plane
 * Cuffer
 * Cully
 * Cumshaw
 * Cup and wad
 * Cushy
 * Cut a dido
 * Cut out
 * Cuthberts
 * Cuts, Have