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Pool Slang Terms
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quoting "poolhalljunkies"
"the rock" is another one.
"the rock" is another one.
I've heard it refered to as "the pill".
Old timers around here call it Judy.
1 Ball = Ace
2 Ball = Duece
5 ball = Pumpkin
8 Ball = Blackball
9 Ball = Cheese
2 Ball = Duece
5 ball = Pumpkin
8 Ball = Blackball
9 Ball = Cheese
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What are OTHER Pool Sland Terms, with Definations?
ShortStop is one I do not know...
ShortStop is one I do not know...
Weight > The spot given to your opponent.....
Banger > Player with little or no skills...
Jam up > A way to describe a VERY strong players game...
On the stall > Playing under your ability to lure in an opponent...
Buggy whip > A super strong draw shot...
Short stop > real good local player, just a little below an average Pro...
Going off > Betting out of your league...
That's a start I guess
Gerry
Banger > Player with little or no skills...
Jam up > A way to describe a VERY strong players game...
On the stall > Playing under your ability to lure in an opponent...
Buggy whip > A super strong draw shot...
Short stop > real good local player, just a little below an average Pro...
Going off > Betting out of your league...
That's a start I guess
Gerry
Lobster - an easy target
Fish - also an easy target
Longshoremen - hecklers and/or nits
"Man overboard" - when the ball scratches
Tit - the corner of a pocket
Split the wicket - when the pocketed ball smacks the back of the pocket
Crawfish - when a player backs out of a previously arranged match-up
Mud ball - weighted cue ball
Juice - extreme english applied to a shot
Big buckets - larger than normal pockets
Just a few that come to mind!
JAM
Fish - also an easy target
Longshoremen - hecklers and/or nits
"Man overboard" - when the ball scratches
Tit - the corner of a pocket
Split the wicket - when the pocketed ball smacks the back of the pocket
Crawfish - when a player backs out of a previously arranged match-up
Mud ball - weighted cue ball
Juice - extreme english applied to a shot
Big buckets - larger than normal pockets
Just a few that come to mind!
JAM
Terms.
Air: Plaing for money with no money.
Air barrel: Having no money for the last game is firing a air barrel.
Barrel: An increment of money, if has $50 and is playing for $10 a game he would have 5 barels.
Big bertha: 5'x10' pool table
Big track regulation 9 foot table
Caey Mae: A players last barrel is known as his casey mae.
Chirping: talking to sideliners
Cosmo: simple simple run out also known as a "coz" or "road map run out"
Dab it: Performing anything with excelence
Daily double: If one checks into a motel early enough to sleep during the afternoon, go to the pool room druing the evening and night then, go back to the motel and sleep again before check out time, he has a daily double, or he has aslept twice, and paid rent only for one day.
Dime: 1,000 but can also be $10
Double Steer: Convincing someone he has the "nuts", then betting againt him.
Nuts: The person that should win has the nuts.
Ear man: Someone who serves as a sounding board for a player in action he never answeres the player, he only responds with uderstanding nods.
Flush: having enough money to cover any wager your apponent can bet.
Gaff: something that sounds good but is not.
Hight speed wobles: An affliction of nerves caused by high stakes and toubh competition. Resulting in being shot into a coma.
Horse: A pool player. I.E. Keith is jams "horse"
In the fire: When merchindise is put into bet.
Jar/Jarred: when a drug reduces the peformance of a player.
Jellied: On drugs ready for all night action.
jelly roll: money freely given to a person as a gift, for some one out of action.
Juice: A bet with a bookie paying $6 against his $5, the difference is paying the juice.
Juiced table: A piece of wire inside a cue made which is attracted to a electric wire in the table is a "juiced table"
Knife and Fork: All road expenses, including meals. "I didnt booka loser, but the knife and for k tok me off.
On the bite: a person looking for a loan.
Open nose: when a person is losing and keeps chasing bad money, with his good until he goes broke.
orange crush: To spot someone the 5 ball and the break.
Out of the air: Playing with one handed, and not being allowed to rest the shaft of the cue stick on anything.
Rag: Cloth of the rail or cushion.
Rail bird: An onlooker or side better.
Road rack: leaving spaces between balls, twisting the rack anything to stop an apponent from making a ball on the break.
Rolling the cheese: Trying to get lucky by blasting the 9ball around the table.
Tapioca: Tapped out, tap city, broke.
walking stick: when the winner of the money gives teh loser some back to help him out. He gives him a walking stick, so the loser is not left completly "tapioca"
Mack
Air: Plaing for money with no money.
Air barrel: Having no money for the last game is firing a air barrel.
Barrel: An increment of money, if has $50 and is playing for $10 a game he would have 5 barels.
Big bertha: 5'x10' pool table
Big track regulation 9 foot table
Caey Mae: A players last barrel is known as his casey mae.
Chirping: talking to sideliners
Cosmo: simple simple run out also known as a "coz" or "road map run out"
Dab it: Performing anything with excelence
Daily double: If one checks into a motel early enough to sleep during the afternoon, go to the pool room druing the evening and night then, go back to the motel and sleep again before check out time, he has a daily double, or he has aslept twice, and paid rent only for one day.
Dime: 1,000 but can also be $10
Double Steer: Convincing someone he has the "nuts", then betting againt him.
Nuts: The person that should win has the nuts.
Ear man: Someone who serves as a sounding board for a player in action he never answeres the player, he only responds with uderstanding nods.
Flush: having enough money to cover any wager your apponent can bet.
Gaff: something that sounds good but is not.
Hight speed wobles: An affliction of nerves caused by high stakes and toubh competition. Resulting in being shot into a coma.
Horse: A pool player. I.E. Keith is jams "horse"
In the fire: When merchindise is put into bet.
Jar/Jarred: when a drug reduces the peformance of a player.
Jellied: On drugs ready for all night action.
jelly roll: money freely given to a person as a gift, for some one out of action.
Juice: A bet with a bookie paying $6 against his $5, the difference is paying the juice.
Juiced table: A piece of wire inside a cue made which is attracted to a electric wire in the table is a "juiced table"
Knife and Fork: All road expenses, including meals. "I didnt booka loser, but the knife and for k tok me off.
On the bite: a person looking for a loan.
Open nose: when a person is losing and keeps chasing bad money, with his good until he goes broke.
orange crush: To spot someone the 5 ball and the break.
Out of the air: Playing with one handed, and not being allowed to rest the shaft of the cue stick on anything.
Rag: Cloth of the rail or cushion.
Rail bird: An onlooker or side better.
Road rack: leaving spaces between balls, twisting the rack anything to stop an apponent from making a ball on the break.
Rolling the cheese: Trying to get lucky by blasting the 9ball around the table.
Tapioca: Tapped out, tap city, broke.
walking stick: when the winner of the money gives teh loser some back to help him out. He gives him a walking stick, so the loser is not left completly "tapioca"
Mack
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The Rock
The rock is one of my fav'es
Whitey as I know it was always a feminine term, should be spelled with a Y(HOW THE HELL DID THE NINE GET IN THERE, CKLE)
Hard to think of many others: hummmmmmm, MAYBE NOT
Big Ball
Little ball
Mud ball
Mudder
Red Circle, there were two different types that I remember, thick/thin
Blue Circle
Bar Ball
Magnetic
Light cue ball
Generic cue ball
Aramith triangle logo cue ball
Aramith bar ball
Second Generation Aramaith bar ball
Valley Ball
Frickin ball, ckle
The ball with chunks out of it from flying off the table
The ball on a string
I'm gettin tired sure there are a few more, but not too many more
Oh yeah, Ivory cue ball and Billiard balls, phew, I'm worn out
PoolSleuth said:Whitie + Cue Ball
Who else can add to the list
The rock is one of my fav'es
Whitey as I know it was always a feminine term, should be spelled with a Y(HOW THE HELL DID THE NINE GET IN THERE, CKLE)
Hard to think of many others: hummmmmmm, MAYBE NOT
Big Ball
Little ball
Mud ball
Mudder
Red Circle, there were two different types that I remember, thick/thin
Blue Circle
Bar Ball
Magnetic
Light cue ball
Generic cue ball
Aramith triangle logo cue ball
Aramith bar ball
Second Generation Aramaith bar ball
Valley Ball
Frickin ball, ckle
The ball with chunks out of it from flying off the table
The ball on a string
I'm gettin tired sure there are a few more, but not too many more
Oh yeah, Ivory cue ball and Billiard balls, phew, I'm worn out
A few more with a little clarification from my understanding -
Jam up - when someone is just playing fantastic, they are playing jam up or are in dead stroke or dead punch or in the zone. They can also catch a gear to start playing in dead punch.
On the stall - also called sandbagging or on the lemon or on the limoney - playing under your ability
Going off - Betting your whole bankroll, even when you don't have a chance. Also known as getting your nose open.
Mudball - a weighted cueball, but made out of that gray stuff that pits easily.
Air barrel - Can be at any time. In fact, you can start out with an air barrel.
Handprint - another term for an easy runout because the balls are spread out like a spread out hand. Also a dot to dot - when all you have to do is easy stop shots.
Nuts - Having the heavy favorable majority over the opponent in a matchup is to have the nuts.
Horse - A player put in action that can then be bet on.
Rolling the cheese - also riding the cheese, Cheese Whiz, cheese banger, riding the cheddar, cheesing it, etc.
Slept it - didn't notice
Duck or a cripple - a hanging ball in the jaws.
To duck is to play safe.
Nit - someone who will never bet high or is stingy.
Sweater or Sweator - someone watching or sweating the action, usually because they have a vested interest (Hey I made a funny!) Also a railbird.
Pooch - someone who dogs it or chokes
Barking - players who call each other out. Also called woofing.
Fluke, slop, fluck, s*it a ball in
Lock or lock artist - a sure thing or someone who only plays when it is a sure thing - also called a handcuff artist
Loose - could mean your wrist, your playing style or your cueball.
Cut up, chopped up, whacked up, sliced up, divvied up the $ - Dispersed to each person their due share
Drill - to annhilate someone at the table
Drilled - to be annhilated by your opponent
Truck and Trailer - a follow scratch shot
ATM - a tournament where a certain player always wins. The IPT was Mike Sigel's ATM.
Tomato Head - When a player gets really embarrassed - sometimes when a man is getting beaten by a female, they get a tomato head.
Jam up - when someone is just playing fantastic, they are playing jam up or are in dead stroke or dead punch or in the zone. They can also catch a gear to start playing in dead punch.
On the stall - also called sandbagging or on the lemon or on the limoney - playing under your ability
Going off - Betting your whole bankroll, even when you don't have a chance. Also known as getting your nose open.
Mudball - a weighted cueball, but made out of that gray stuff that pits easily.
Air barrel - Can be at any time. In fact, you can start out with an air barrel.
Handprint - another term for an easy runout because the balls are spread out like a spread out hand. Also a dot to dot - when all you have to do is easy stop shots.
Nuts - Having the heavy favorable majority over the opponent in a matchup is to have the nuts.
Horse - A player put in action that can then be bet on.
Rolling the cheese - also riding the cheese, Cheese Whiz, cheese banger, riding the cheddar, cheesing it, etc.
Slept it - didn't notice
Duck or a cripple - a hanging ball in the jaws.
To duck is to play safe.
Nit - someone who will never bet high or is stingy.
Sweater or Sweator - someone watching or sweating the action, usually because they have a vested interest (Hey I made a funny!) Also a railbird.
Pooch - someone who dogs it or chokes
Barking - players who call each other out. Also called woofing.
Fluke, slop, fluck, s*it a ball in
Lock or lock artist - a sure thing or someone who only plays when it is a sure thing - also called a handcuff artist
Loose - could mean your wrist, your playing style or your cueball.
Cut up, chopped up, whacked up, sliced up, divvied up the $ - Dispersed to each person their due share
Drill - to annhilate someone at the table
Drilled - to be annhilated by your opponent
Truck and Trailer - a follow scratch shot
ATM - a tournament where a certain player always wins. The IPT was Mike Sigel's ATM.
Tomato Head - When a player gets really embarrassed - sometimes when a man is getting beaten by a female, they get a tomato head.
I once heard buddy hall call the cue ball "SNOW" .. I also have a match of keith mccready playing ismael paez when a long safety battle was under way nip tuck back and forward until mccready lags the ball up table but doesnt get his cue ball hidden frowning in disbelief he soon notices the object ball is tracking towards the pocket he then scream " LOOK AT HERE DICE" I fell out of my chair laughing along with buddy who was doing the commentary.
5ballcharlie said:
5 ball charlie, I can just hear Kiether say that, your post made me laugh, the situation you just described, reminded me when I was playin' this guy and beatin' on him not toooooo bad, he tried to play safe, shot into a ball frozen too the rail. The ball was close to the corner pocket and a "double kiss" happened, of course the object ball now, was just "layin" near the hole. He said "did you see that double kiss" I thought for a moment, and replied, "well yeah, don't ya know what that means?" he kinda looked at me funny and asked, what do you mean?, I replied with the definition," the first kiss is for you, the second kiss is for me" and said "thanks" its not often I get a good kiss from my opponent.
5ballcharlie said:
I hear that term all the time up here because of Harry Platis, and it is more the lucky roll or situation that is called dice, because of the luck factor of rolling dice.
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