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revTrex

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POST YOUR WEIRD/STRANGE/OUT-DATED BOWLING SLANG
« on: November 20, 2008, 05:00:45 AM »
Alright, so I'm trying to compile an extensive dictionary of bowling terms and slang for Bowlers Journal, and I want everyone's help. We've already got hundreds of terms -- everything from Turkey to PAP to Adult Bumper Bowling to Count to Double-Wood -- but what I'm looking for now are the strange, weird, out-dated, and/or regional terms that one might easily overlook.

What have you guys got? Post 'em with a brief definition.
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Re: POST YOUR WEIRD/STRANGE/OUT-DATED BOWLING SLANG
« Reply #16 on: November 20, 2008, 02:11:59 PM »
"Girly Ball" someone leaves a 5 pin
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Re: POST YOUR WEIRD/STRANGE/OUT-DATED BOWLING SLANG
« Reply #17 on: November 20, 2008, 02:15:42 PM »

Woolworth  5-10
Lily       5-7-10
Bedpost    7-10
Can opener, light hit spraying pins everywhere

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Re: POST YOUR WEIRD/STRANGE/OUT-DATED BOWLING SLANG
« Reply #18 on: November 20, 2008, 02:23:56 PM »
In Chicago they used to say "railroad" for a split. I always thought it meant the 7-10, because "double-railroad" was a 4-6-7-10.

I read somewhere a listing of names for the number of strikes in a row,(not to start  the bashing) 2=chicken, 3=turkey, 4=crow(you can crow with four in a row)forget what five was but think six was an albatrose.  Its been a long time since I read these.

Spillage ON LANE #XX= pins falling slowly ending in a strike.

Brick = when the ball hits and drives right through (like a brick thru a window)

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Re: POST YOUR WEIRD/STRANGE/OUT-DATED BOWLING SLANG
« Reply #19 on: November 20, 2008, 02:32:08 PM »
"Hit Em Thin and Watch Em Spin"
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"Trust is a Must or your Game is a Bust"
Just a few that come to mind....

If someone dumps it in the channel we all yell out "Clown Shot" and start up with the circus music.
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Re: POST YOUR WEIRD/STRANGE/OUT-DATED BOWLING SLANG
« Reply #20 on: November 20, 2008, 02:40:51 PM »
some of the oldtimers still refer to dry lanes as "slow" and wet lanes at "fast".
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Re: POST YOUR WEIRD/STRANGE/OUT-DATED BOWLING SLANG
« Reply #21 on: November 20, 2008, 02:54:29 PM »
Dunno if these are old or not...

When someone leaves a solid 10 pin and whines:
"You throw 9, you get 9."

Someone getting ready to throw the bonus ball in the 10th (off a double or spare):
"All you can eat."
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Re: POST YOUR WEIRD/STRANGE/OUT-DATED BOWLING SLANG
« Reply #22 on: November 20, 2008, 03:07:29 PM »

 The Fast vs Slow was in reference to the lanes hooking. in the East it meant one thing and West of the Mississippi it meant something else.
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Re: POST YOUR WEIRD/STRANGE/OUT-DATED BOWLING SLANG
« Reply #23 on: November 20, 2008, 03:08:57 PM »
That ball hits like a marshmallow!

Grip it and rip it

Just catch it at the bottom a little more, rip the cover/grips out of/off the ball.


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Re: POST YOUR WEIRD/STRANGE/OUT-DATED BOWLING SLANG
« Reply #24 on: November 20, 2008, 03:13:21 PM »
A friend and I made up some names for stringing strikes:

3 must always be a Turkey... duh.
4 Connect Four = Common Sense, screw the hambone.
5 Yahtzee  =  I've said this for about 5 years... too bad that guy is using now.
6 Half Mile = Halfway to a 300.
7 Vegas = Isn't 7 the magic number there?

Never really worked up anything past 7.

Oh yeah, and when our buddy leaves a flush 10 or 8... we tell him to put some more dick in the ball... he only has like 500 rpms.
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Re: POST YOUR WEIRD/STRANGE/OUT-DATED BOWLING SLANG
« Reply #25 on: November 20, 2008, 03:21:08 PM »
a sanctioned double!-when someone couldnt carry all day and somehow manages to carry a double
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Re: POST YOUR WEIRD/STRANGE/OUT-DATED BOWLING SLANG
« Reply #26 on: November 20, 2008, 03:30:05 PM »
cherry-when you chop a spare
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Re: POST YOUR WEIRD/STRANGE/OUT-DATED BOWLING SLANG
« Reply #27 on: November 20, 2008, 03:36:02 PM »
we call a scout that misses the 7 pin/10 pin the ray charles scout

on tuesday nites we have creative names for strike strings lol..

3: mudhen
4: mudcxck
5: pxcker
6: fXXXer
7: motherfXXXer
8: doublemudcxck

they said their team name long ago was mudhens and came up with those names accordingly..lol

to add to the  pitchout post..we use it too, and add "and the runner wasnt running" when the headpin is flagged.
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Re: POST YOUR WEIRD/STRANGE/OUT-DATED BOWLING SLANG
« Reply #28 on: November 20, 2008, 03:37:30 PM »
Out-dated, HAMBONE!      
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Re: POST YOUR WEIRD/STRANGE/OUT-DATED BOWLING SLANG
« Reply #29 on: November 20, 2008, 03:37:55 PM »
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a sanctioned double!-when someone couldnt carry all day and somehow manages to carry a double
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on the way maybe the sauce or momentum swing.
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p.s. go leftys


Use that one a lot.  

Also when someone shoots a ball way off target and it has no chance of hooking back, I yell go Brooklyn
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Re: POST YOUR WEIRD/STRANGE/OUT-DATED BOWLING SLANG
« Reply #30 on: November 20, 2008, 03:40:27 PM »
When someone throws a bad shot and stares at the pins left standing we tell them "don't worry, your ball will be right back" or "don't worry, you get to try again". Annoys the hell out of bowlers on the other team.
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