A person (usually male) who is pretentious and arrogant, but lacks any real skill or ability. Most often used by military pilots.
> Around here, we got two kinds of pilots: the hotdogs who get all the hot planes, and then you got your pudknockers who dream of flying the hot planes. So, what are you two pudknockers gonna have?

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be myself
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Scindapsus aureus
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