Trash - Foil, bottle caps, gum wrappers, pop-tops.
Junk - something so broken or damaged you wouldn't bend over to pick up
Relic - 150 year old junk.
Treasure Sign - any natural or man made disfigurement on a rock or tree.
Bald Faced Lie - what others claim about their detector's capability.
Gospel Truth - what you claim about your detector's capability.
Digging tool - a hand-held instrument used to scratch coins.
Lesche - the ne plus ultra digging tool.
Find bag - a pouch, usually belt worn, used to temporarily hold precious finds from the time dug to somewhere along the trail back to your car or the last place you knelt while digging.
IHC - Indian Head Cent
Penny - a foreign small coin. The U.S. has NEVER minted a penny (it's true! Ours are cents, Great Britian & colonies have pennies).
Creep - someone who asks you what you've found so far today.
Jerk - someone who found something better than you during the same hunt.
Zinc - a Lincoln Head Cent minted in or after 1982.