With the tournament fast approaching - probably a good idea to brush up on your bowling lingo.
We want to hear people stringing together great phrases & facebook statuses like:
"Man, who needs a turkey, I just ripped a 5-bagger"
Here's some clutch 5-pin terminology:
We want to hear people stringing together great phrases & facebook statuses like:
"Man, who needs a turkey, I just ripped a 5-bagger"
Here's some clutch 5-pin terminology:
- "[number]-pack": Term for a number of consecutive strikes; e.g. six consecutive strikes is a "six-pack". Also referred to as "[number]-bagger" (e.g. six-bagger).
- "10 the hard way": After the third ball, having a frame score of 10 where the remaining pins are a 3-pin and a 2-pin that are not "neighbours".
- "Aces" (A): taking out the headpin and both three pins but leaving the two corner pins. Also referred to as "bed posts" or "goal posts".
- "Chop" or "chop-off" (denoted ℅): Hitting the headpin and the 3 and 2 pins on one side on the first ball, leaving the other 3 and 2 pins on the other side.
- "Clean game" or "Fifteen" or "Clean-up": Finishing a game with a strike or spare in every frame.
- "Corner-pin": Leaving only the left corner pin or right corner pin standing on the first ball is denoted by an "L" or an "R" respectively on a score sheet.
- "Full set": When all pins are knocked down by using all three balls. Also referred to as a "clean up".
- "Headpin" (denoted H on a score sheet): punching the headpin on the first ball. The most dreaded result on the first ball as a "headpin-spare" is extremely difficult to achieve.
- "Punch": Hitting only one pin when two or more pins are remaining (commonly known as a "cherry" on the 2nd or 3rd ball)
- "Split" (S): Taking out the headpin and one of the three-pins, scoring 8 on the first ball. Difficult to obtain a spare on the second ball but if accomplished, this is known as a "split-spare". Many bowling associations will offer a special pin for this achievement.
- "Strike out": Finishing the game with Three or more strikes.
- "Turkey": Three consecutive strikes
- "Wood" or "deadwood": The pins left on the lane, usually after throwing the first two balls of a frame. This originates from when bowling pins were typically made of wood and not acrylic.