List of Star Wars equivalents to real-world objects

This is a list of Star Wars equivalents to real-world objects.

Clothing

• Eyeglasses- Spectacles
• Anklet - anklet
• Cast - Plasto-cast, Plexi-cast
• Fake fur - Synthfur
• Handcuffs - Binders, Stun cuffs
• Sunglasses - Glareshades
• Watch, wristwatch - watch, chrono
• Wedding ring - Promise ring
• Wetsuit - slicksuit

Food and beverages

• Beer- Beer, Lum
• Chewing gum - Chewstim
• Cigarette, cigar - Cigarra, Cigarette
• Coffee - Caf, Coffee, Coffeine, Stimcaf
• Cookie - Cookie, Wookiee Cookie, Wookiee-ookiee
• Hot chocolate - Hot chocolate, Hoth chocolate
• Ice cream - Frosty treat, Ice-on-a-stick
• Milk - Milk (and other variations listed therein)
• Steak- Nerf steak
• Pancakes - Flatcake, Trandoshani flatcake
• Peppermint stick - Sparklemint stick
• Soy milk - Synthmilk
• Sushi - seaweed roll
• Tea - Tea (and other variations listed therein)
• Tobacco - Tabac, T'bac, Tobacco
• Tofu - Soypro
• Water - Water

Technology and tools

• Air conditioner - Air cooler, Cooling unit
• Bathroom, lavatory, restroom, shower, toilet - Refresher
• Batteries - Power pack
• Binoculars - Macrobinoculars
• Blender - Sonic blender
• Broom - Repulsorbroom, Sonic Broom
• Camera - Holocamera, Imager
• Car - Groundcar, grav-car, airflow car, hover car, trundle car, hauler car
  • Buick Electra - Buick
• Cell phone - Comlink
• Chainsaw - Vibrosaw
• Clock - Chronometer or chrono
• Crosshairs/Rifle scope - Rangefinder
• Disks - Datatapes
• Elevator - Elevator, Turbolift, Lift tube, Turbovator, Vacuum-lift or Vacuum tube
• E-mail - E-mail
• Escalator - Slideramp
• Film, movie, video - Holodramas, Holovids
• Firewall - Pyrowall
• Flashlight, torch - Glowlamp, Glowrod, Luma
• Floodlight - Illumination bank
• Forklift - Load lifter
• Gas oven - Gasser
• Rifle-Blaster rifle
• Helicopter - Chopter
• Internet - HoloNet
• Iron - Sonismoother
• Jack - Hydrojack
• Jackhammer - Rock Hammer, Turbohammer
• Jukebox - Jukebox, (more loosely) Music machine
• Laptop - Datapad
• Lightbulb - Lumen globe
• Machine gun - Repeating Blaster
• Matchstick - Igniter stick, Sparkstick
• Megaphone - Loudhailer, Voice amplifier
• Microwave - Nanowave
• Minecart - Turbocart
• Motorcycle - Hover bike, Speeder bike, Swoop
• Newspaper - Holojournal
• Personal digital assistant - Pocket Secretary
• Power line - Power coupling
• Refrigerator - Conservator, Cooling chamber
• Scalpel-Vibroscalpel
• Seatbelt - Acceleration strap
• Shovel - Hydroshovel, Power-shovel, Vibroshovel, Vibrospade
• Shower - Sonic shower, Sanisteam
• Slot machine - Credit game
• Soda fountain - Vending machine
• Space shuttle, spaceplane, Space Shuttle, Buran - Shuttle
• Steet light - Lightpole
• Taxi - Robo-Hack
• Television - Flatscreen, Viewscreen, Holovision
• Thermos - Thermajug
• Toaster - Therma-slice
• Treadmill - Grav-mill
• Vacuum cleaner - Sandstat
• Vending machine - Automixer
• Webpage - Infocache
• Windshield - Windscreen
• Wrench - Hydrospanner
• X-ray machine - Holoscanner

Other

• Alphabet - Aurebesh
• Bandaid - Bacta patch
• Bar - Cantina
• Birthday - Birthday, Naming day
• Blackjack - Pazaak, Sabacc(to a degree)
• Broom - Repulsorbroom, Sonic Broom
• Canteen - Hydropak, Jerikan, JugFilter
• Card Dealer-Card-dealer droid, Cardshark
• Chess - Chess, dejarik
• Child - Youngling
• Coaster - Absorbmat
• Coffee bar - Tapcafe
• Cologne - Cologne
• Concrete - Permacrete
• Dice - Chance cubes
• Duct tape - Engine tape, Mesh tape, Space tape, Spacer's tape
• Earthquake - Groundquake
• Elevator music - Lift-tube music
• English language - Galactic Basic Standard
• Firecracker - Pyrocracker
• First Aid Kit - Medikit, Medpac, (larger and more advanced) Medkit
• Forgery artist - Holo faker
• Fuzzy dice - Arkudan gaming cubes
• Glass-Transparisteel
• Godparents - Hold-Parent
• Graph - Data-holo
• Hacker - Slicer
• Hospital - Medcenter
• Key of C - Key of Cresh
• Mop - Vibromop
• Newspaper - Holojournal
• Packing material - Plastifoam
• Paper - Durasheet, Flimsiplast
• Pen - Stylus
• Photograph - Flat-holo, Holograph
• Picture frame - Holo cube, Holocube
• Poker - Sabacc
• Reporter - Holojournalist
• Sellotape - Slickplast
• Skyscraper - Spacescraper
• Syringe - Hypo-injector, Hypo-syringe, Medjector
• Telephone number - Com code
• Tent - DuraShelter, Plastent, Shelter
• Therapist - Minder
• Time magazine - Chrono (periodical)
• Tissue - Napkin wipe
• Toothbrush - Toothbrush or Ultrasound cleaner
• Vinyl - Synthleather
• Window - Window, Viewport

Phrases

• See List of phrases and slang

External links

• Earth Words and Their Star Wars Equivalents - a helpful index for writers on the Jedi Council Forums (Fan Fiction Resource board; accessed March 19, 2012) (backup link (threads/26188263/) not verified!)