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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 #31 on: November 20, 2008, 03:50:42 PM »
Boo-yah!!!!
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Re: POST YOUR WEIRD/STRANGE/OUT-DATED BOWLING SLANG
« Reply #32 on: November 20, 2008, 03:54:30 PM »
Crankers are described as guys who "whack the t!ts off the ball"...

Messenger 10's are described as "Slammin' the Dime"

When all team members strike in the same frame, we yell out "COMBO"
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Re: POST YOUR WEIRD/STRANGE/OUT-DATED BOWLING SLANG
« Reply #33 on: November 20, 2008, 03:56:39 PM »
Throw your purse at it alice (when u leave the 5 pin)
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Re: POST YOUR WEIRD/STRANGE/OUT-DATED BOWLING SLANG
« Reply #34 on: November 20, 2008, 04:18:48 PM »
When someone throws a pocket shot a leaves a 5 pin...we like to yell "Give that guy (or gal) a nickel!"...and depending on consumption of adult beverages or who it may be...we've been known to throw the nickels at them...

"Mitt Full" when someone with a lack of hand either yacks on one or gets into the nether regions of 4th arrow and actually creates enough angle to strike...

Since the 3-6-10 seems to be a interesting spare around these parts...we'll often say "Windows Open" and procede to place bets on whether or not they'll make it or how they will miss it...

"Dump 'N' Smash" or "DNS" for short...bowler who tends to jam the ball into the lane rather then roll it and strikes at will (this guy!)


We have a lot more terms for specific individuals...but that would do no good in this topic...

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Re: POST YOUR WEIRD/STRANGE/OUT-DATED BOWLING SLANG
« Reply #35 on: November 20, 2008, 04:20:26 PM »
you gota yell when you strike
show me the money
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Re: POST YOUR WEIRD/STRANGE/OUT-DATED BOWLING SLANG
« Reply #36 on: November 20, 2008, 04:40:18 PM »
I heard the following used on ESPN telecasts in the 1980's with Mike Durbin and Denny Schreiner:
The bucket crumbler - a light hit in which the headpin clips the 2, which falls slowly into the 4.  Meanwhile, the headpin rebounds off the sideboard and clips the 8, which falls into the 5.  It could also refer to any time a light hit leaves the bucket, which is eventually "crumbled" when the headpin deflects off the sideboard.

A Jersey Squasher - another name for a light-Brooklyn hit

Sour apple - the 5-7-10 split

These are probably just local colloquial uses.  I've never heard them in a PBA telecast:
Rattler - when the 4 or 6 pin falls into the gutter on a flush hit and "rattles" back and forth without taking out the corner pin.

Double-clutch - when the 4 or 6 kicks out the corner on the second bounce out of the gutter.

Widow's teeth (or Granny teeth) - Any really odd spread of pins, usually the 2-7-10 or 2-7-9-10 for lefties (3-7-10 or 3-7-8-10 for righties).
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Re: POST YOUR WEIRD/STRANGE/OUT-DATED BOWLING SLANG
« Reply #37 on: November 20, 2008, 04:45:48 PM »
anyone still call the front desk with a code 180 indicating the sweep down on a lane?
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Re: POST YOUR WEIRD/STRANGE/OUT-DATED BOWLING SLANG
« Reply #38 on: November 20, 2008, 04:56:52 PM »
Linda Lovelace Special and Harvey Wallbanger are two of father's favorite saying's

And we still use "180" for a sweep that is stuck.

Edited on 11/20/2008 5:58 PM
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Re: POST YOUR WEIRD/STRANGE/OUT-DATED BOWLING SLANG
« Reply #39 on: November 20, 2008, 05:28:26 PM »
We refer to a 5 pin leave as "No drive, no 5"

Tomahawk 10 is on a light strike ball, the 6 pin goes to the wall, falls in the gutter and topples over taking out the 10 pin. Sort of like chopping down on it.
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Re: POST YOUR WEIRD/STRANGE/OUT-DATED BOWLING SLANG
« Reply #40 on: November 20, 2008, 05:31:37 PM »
Hung - the only person on the team not to strike in the frame, owes the rest of the team a round. One per game else we'd never make to the third game.

They got some fingers in the ball or FINGERS! - light hit that mixes for a strike

Cherry picked - chopped one pin off of a two pin spare

Sandbagger - Low average bowler shooting over their average
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Re: POST YOUR WEIRD/STRANGE/OUT-DATED BOWLING SLANG
« Reply #41 on: November 20, 2008, 05:48:49 PM »
"RBF" and "I hope I bowl a 300 once in my life".
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Re: POST YOUR WEIRD/STRANGE/OUT-DATED BOWLING SLANG
« Reply #42 on: November 20, 2008, 06:42:06 PM »
Leaving just a 5-pin results in the "sex pin". If you get it, you get it you dont, you won't.
Mixer = strike on a light hit
Dominoes = when you bouce a pin from the back and it takes out a string of pins like the 6-3-1 or 4-2-1, just like toppling dominoes forward.
7-10 = Bookends
The laughing pin = a wobbling single pin, almost as if it waving and laughing back at you.

On edit - the 1/2 pin ... when a pin is left standing up in the gutter.
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Edited on 11/20/2008 8:54 PM

Edited on 11/20/2008 8:54 PM
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Re: POST YOUR WEIRD/STRANGE/OUT-DATED BOWLING SLANG
« Reply #43 on: November 20, 2008, 06:51:29 PM »
if one us flushes pocket and leaves a single pin, we all yell "stand up and fight like a man!"
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Re: POST YOUR WEIRD/STRANGE/OUT-DATED BOWLING SLANG
« Reply #44 on: November 20, 2008, 07:17:17 PM »
Anytime anyone tripped a 4 pin forward, we'd yell '4 PIN FORWARD!' in the drawn out soccer announcer 'GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAAAL!' voice...

Over time, it turned into any pin, but the 4 pin is still the most popular.
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Re: POST YOUR WEIRD/STRANGE/OUT-DATED BOWLING SLANG
« Reply #45 on: November 20, 2008, 07:55:27 PM »
Varipoppa 300 - 12 strikes consecutively, but not in the same game.  --  JohnP
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