what's your 20
Where are you?
What's your 20 is CB radio slang asking for someone's location, derived from "10-20," the ten-code for position.
The phrase spread from truckers into general use and now appears in casual conversation, texting, or calls: What's your 20? I'm almost at the restaurant.
- locationPosition in space
- CB radioCitizens Band transceiver
- truckerCommercial freight driver
- rubber duckSqueezable floating tub toy
- breakerWave that collapses shoreward
position · whereabouts · coordinates · highway · convoy · keep on truckin' · copy · radio · dispatch · over · roger · base · home base · handle · channel · smokey · eighteen-wheeler · roadway
communicative function
what's your 20over and out
Radio farewell phrase
signing off · hello · hey · breaker breaker · 10-4