@yashima’s comment in the Voidfall thread made me decide to revive this thread from the old SU&SD forum:
So, what random names have you come up with for game compnents/resources/etc that have won out over their actual names?
There’s the classic “space chocolate” from Star Cartel:
And then in Cuzco, you’re not building temples, you’re making cakes and topping them off with candles:
And, regardless of what it says, this card in Skyward is Jetpack Cat:
Anything cash-like becomes “moneys” (even in Aeon’s End where there aren’t any actual tokens for it). “I’ll pay three moneys to buy a [whatever].”
This card from Sentinels of the Multiverse got christened “Lesbian Death Punch” (the character Tachyon is canonically gay, and the card is very often a fight-finishing play).
Yeah, I call everything moneys. Occasionally dollarydoos.
It’s all “spacebucks”.
e.g.
Although, watching Bluey may influence me towards dollarbucks.
I liked Efka’s use of space-a-gons 
Space-a-gons are the best-best-a-gons.
Anything that’s money or looks like coins (such as the points tokens in Everdell) is bucks (well, its Quebec French equivalent, piasses) or dollars to us. 
Damage in sci-fi games is always “Pews”. Mostly heard these days with SW: tDG. “Your base takes 5 pews.”
Which led to one of my favorite comments, “You take a church worth of pews.”
This is the first I’ve heard of this, but I completely agree and it is now canon at my table.
Anything that involves building a route is a train because
Trains in games >> no trains in games
Also all currency is a pound, reduced to the lowest figure possible. Lords of Vegas deals in millions, I deal in singles
Similarly in Leaving Earth: “I’ll pay 20 bucks for a Saturn.”
That’s a good price for a car. Too good. So what’s wrong with it? 
… it’s a Saturn. So probably everything 
The true and correct guide to Imperium: Horizons components:
I think I see Vs, Bricks, Brandy Glasses and a Radioctive Amphora
From the top of my head:
In Architects of the West Kingdom, whenever I play with my friends, since one of them accidentally asked for bricks when going to the forest, the wooden logs are Forest Bricks
Archeos Society: The brown balloon is a Chicken Drum.
Everdell: Most people I play with calls the resin amber or honey…
Much as I try to discourage it, the purple components in Quacks of Quedlinburg are fetuses. 0_o
Taverns of Tiefenthal is probably the worst for my group.
Beer handler = little beer
Waitress = dice lady
Sommelier= smelly A
Beer supplier = big beer
Schnapps= snappy snaps
I doubt there’s one component in that game we refer to correctly.
My partner also has a habit of referring to ‘stone’ in any game as ‘steel’, which makes for some thematically bizarre games.
It’s probably not common, but ‘Scout’ has been renamed by my brain as ‘Vajazzle’, to the point where I had to go and look at it on the shelf just to remember the real name.
… why?? 
Don’t ask me. I don’t make the rules in my brain. I just live here.
