# What's German for "Eject!" or "Bail out!"?

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**Created:** [June 8, 2003, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-german-for-eject-or-bail-out/180406 "2003-06-08T05:01:03Z")\
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**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\
**Post date:** [June 8, 2003, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-german-for-eject-or-bail-out/180406/1 "2003-06-08T05:01:03Z")

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…it’s all in the title, really. And it’s in the aviation sense. Babelfish, bless it’s electronic heart, couldn’t quite get the translation right.  
Well, thanks for your time,

Ranchoth

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**Author:** ![Einmon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Einmon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Einmon)\
**Post date:** [June 8, 2003, 7:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-german-for-eject-or-bail-out/180406/2 "2003-06-08T07:38:29Z")

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The term for “to eject” is: “den Schleudersitz auslösen”, but “Lös den Schleudersitz aus!” would be much to long in an emergency situation IMO.

So I would guess if you want to tell somebody to get out of a plane ASAP you would yell: “Raus da!” or some such.

But I am not military personnel, and there might be a different word that I am not aware of.