I assume it means getting up in someone's face.
close, it means going for the body/midsection. I picked it up from an announcer on a boxing game I was playing so it could be exclusive to him and he just made it up. But if you think about it you cook food in a kitchen and you hit someone in the gut where they keep their food, it makes sense.
I got to land a helicopter today, I didn't really instruct them very much I was just in charge of the fire team and the people getting onboard. I only had to give the pilot a thumbs up when he could leave, they're pretty self-sufficient.
And I was practicing with the simulator on the bridge and the mate asked me to translate for them because the mexican-americans were all eating or off. A crew boat was coming in and they kept saying the name of one of the guys on the helicopter. I figured they were asking if they were being brought to the heliport and I told them "yes" and some other shit but then like 20 minutes later they kept calling us. Eventually I got them to go get someone that speaks english and he told me the same shit and I said the same thing. But then they started calling again and wanted to know if we had something for them. When the mates were trying to find out I was trying to get them to "standby" so I told them "Tanquilo" which means "calm down" in spanish. I thought it meant something between "hold on" and "take it easy". So the coversation was like: "hey which side of your ship do you want us to approach on, we have to get something from you." and I said somethin like, "This is the DB-16, chill out for a minute".