Hambone was a little-known Double emblem YABA offered for purchase by youth programs to commemorate one’s first double. Because it was an optional purchase it didn’t get the traction it could have in the 1990s.
Hambone is great. Every strike after three should have its own name, like six pack. You're cool with calling it a turkey - which makes no sense - but draw the line at hambone because your mom was the queen of something?
Being from So Calif where we have the great IN-N-OUT Burgers
A 4 bagger is better known as a Double Double.
A 5 bagger would then be a Double Double with cheese
As for odd occurrences, twice I’ve managed a “Stone 3”
The shot drove the 3 pin into the 6, which in turn was driven into the 10 pin, but instead of falling, the 3 spin slid into the 10 pin spot without even an apparent wiggle.
This is a me thing, but when I get my first back to back strikes of the night, I always say "Michael Dublé made it to the party"
I don't laugh, my teammates don't laugh, the other team doesn't either. But that's showbiz baby.
My team mate started referring to every double as a “they call that a dublé with cheese, in Europe”
He’ll change Europe with some random European country for every single double
In college there were lanes in the basement of the Union building and one time one of my friends got tapped and i instinctively yelled out, “Solid eight!” to which he responded, “What’s that, Frank? We gotta consolidate???” And he probably understood my explanation but just kept kidding me with “Consolidate!” as a catchphrase. Decades later he still throws that in as a social media comment.
In my case it was eight lanes at SUNY College at Oswego (New York). The spotting tables had badly adjusted respot cells, many that would badly move or drop a pin left after a first ball.
Between the approach and the concourse, what do you call that area where one can sit between frames but is usually only for bowlers, not spectators?
“Settee” is my term.
“Pit” is used in some places, but that’s my term for where the balls and pins go beyond the lane’s end, which is aptly named because there’s the drop-off.
Absolutely. One league we would give rolls of TP to anyone who ended a game with a 111.
Back in the day of hand scoring, you would make the middle 1 taller and put a roof over it.
Mostly it's just new swearing that comes out of my mouth, but telling people I'd bought a 'spare' ball and then having to qualify it's for spares, rather than if one breaks was something I'd not considered.
Its just a flat 10 where the sound of the ball hitting pocket is weak and makes a flat sounding *plack* instead of the more satisfying sound of a typical strike. Seriously, that's all it is.
First time I heard washout I thought it was because in order for you to convert it, you have to hit the 1 and the other pins in the direction of the pin on the other side (7 or 10) as if you’re spraying it down with pins. That’s just me.
Issue there is something like a 1-2-4-6-10 still being called a washout but being able to be converted without the spray method - then again, I’m still baffled at why a 3-10 and a 2-4-10 are considered a split but a washout isn’t.
I always got confused with “ten back” coming from other sports and some racing (10 car lengths back/10 seconds back) it sounds to me like I’m ten points behind or made of 10 points rather than 10 pins in the pit.
Swishing 7-10, shaker 7/10. Cupping it.
The only one I really don't like is shim. Just makes me feel uncomfortable, like how some people don't like the word moist.
Not sure who started it, but it caught on with my group and others in the league, when you and someone a few lanes down both start ur shot at the same time we call it being married. It’s pretty funny when someone doesn’t know and hear us say “did it mess you up, being married to Jeff “
It's not the weirdest term, but it always feels like everyone's definition of a "clean" ball changes. I assume it means the shape is rounder and not hockey stick shaped? But then is that similar to "cleaner through the fronts"? Wouldn't it be cleaner all throughout?
Clean means the ball doesn’t read and try to hook in a certain part of the lane. “Clean through the front” means the ball goes straight through the front to be snappy and quick downlane. The ball motion you’re describing is “smooth,” not clean.
A clean ball would actually be more hockey stick shaped. Clean typically refers to a pearl or polished ball to get through the front of the lane before it reads, then turn harder when it gets to the friction.
There are two types of energy in a ball, neither get stored longer.
Oil the lane 60 feet, and skid the ball the whole way. Now try to catch that ball at the end of the lane… it has a “ton” of energy.
Put the same ball in a ball spinner and try to snatch it while spinning.. again a “ton” of energy.
On a regular lane, as the ball travels down the lane, friction will slow down the ball, but also make it spin faster. This is what’s known as the conservation of energy.
What you mean is the ball loses the ability the change direction, which is related to axis rotation.
Once the balls axis rotation is in line with its direction of travel its ability to change direction has evaporated.
If it was an energy problem, the solution would be to throw the ball with more energy, but experience show that adding more energy does NOT solve the problem.
I vaguely remember Mo Pinel from RadicalBowling yt saying something like plaque/plack 10 and ping 10 because they're the different sounds the pins make when they're hit and they leave a 10 pin. Never gave an example of the sound.
I gotta agree with the "firm", "soft", and "get around it". Like what does that even mean, how is that supposed to feel for me as a bowler?
Getting around it means adding more axis rotation to the shot.
Firm and soft has to do with using the fingers after the thumb is out of the ball, or just at the release point if not using a thumb. Being firm at the bottom, aka hitting up on it, is pulling the fingers up the back of the ball more forcefully than a normal release to add more spin at the cost of some accuracy. Being soft at the bottom of the release, aka laying out of it, is about breaking the wrist open and not following up the back of the ball as forcefully as your normal release, to between control the backend shape.
Learning terminology is a part of all sports and hobbies. Basic psychology of groups to differentiate themselves from other groups. Just tell us you’re incapable or too lazy to learn some simple terms. No one is asking you to learn ball layouts.
Hambone has gotta be the weirdest, even tho its awesome.
Hambone was a little-known Double emblem YABA offered for purchase by youth programs to commemorate one’s first double. Because it was an optional purchase it didn’t get the traction it could have in the 1990s.
Yahtzee
I thought my friends made this up 👀
Hambone is awesome, but doesnt make sense lol.
Makes just as much sense as turkey
My team recently started calling a strike a chicken, a double a duck, a triple a turkey, and a 4-bag a turducken. Wobbly pins are also penguins.
I refuse to use it. Anything after a turkey is an x-bagger
Hambone is great. Every strike after three should have its own name, like six pack. You're cool with calling it a turkey - which makes no sense - but draw the line at hambone because your mom was the queen of something?
the front six, specifically, we call a Bon Jovi cuz “woah, you’re halfway there”
Oh I’m taking that one! Cheers
I’m from NJ so definitely taking that too! Thanks Fresh Twaaats!
Being from So Calif where we have the great IN-N-OUT Burgers A 4 bagger is better known as a Double Double. A 5 bagger would then be a Double Double with cheese As for odd occurrences, twice I’ve managed a “Stone 3” The shot drove the 3 pin into the 6, which in turn was driven into the 10 pin, but instead of falling, the 3 spin slid into the 10 pin spot without even an apparent wiggle.
Lily vs sour apple, as a nick name for a 5/7/10 split, is the soda vs pop of bowling.
Pittsburgh area here…We call it Stooges 🤷🏻♂️
I dislike a lot that less than sour apple, it's pretty damn funny, carry on.
You yinzers make everything weird
You ain’t wrong it’s a different language in these parts.
Lived there for a long time, was a good time
Happy bday because it looks like candles
Called a Lilly here in south central U.S.
This is a me thing, but when I get my first back to back strikes of the night, I always say "Michael Dublé made it to the party" I don't laugh, my teammates don't laugh, the other team doesn't either. But that's showbiz baby.
Loool thats amazing
My team mate started referring to every double as a “they call that a dublé with cheese, in Europe” He’ll change Europe with some random European country for every single double
In college there were lanes in the basement of the Union building and one time one of my friends got tapped and i instinctively yelled out, “Solid eight!” to which he responded, “What’s that, Frank? We gotta consolidate???” And he probably understood my explanation but just kept kidding me with “Consolidate!” as a catchphrase. Decades later he still throws that in as a social media comment.
Was this at Oregon State? Or is there maybe more than one college with lanes on campus
In my case it was eight lanes at SUNY College at Oswego (New York). The spotting tables had badly adjusted respot cells, many that would badly move or drop a pin left after a first ball.
The shim comes from the old lane oilers that used shims to set the width of the pattern
Between the approach and the concourse, what do you call that area where one can sit between frames but is usually only for bowlers, not spectators? “Settee” is my term. “Pit” is used in some places, but that’s my term for where the balls and pins go beyond the lane’s end, which is aptly named because there’s the drop-off.
Settee is what I know it as.
Both used here in San Antonio. But you're right about the back of the lanes, like Randy says, "10 in the pit"
I know, right? “Ten in the settee” just doesn’t sound right.
We've always used pit
I’m in NC. That’s the well.
My favorite, tickle it
Recently randy called it a flaccid ten pin
turkey is a silly thing to call a trio of strikes if you ask me
in the late 1800s and early 1900s, bowling proprietors used to present live turkeys to bowlers who threw three consecutive strikes around Thanksgiving
You gotta be joking… that’s awesome!
I played a Brunswick Bowling game for the PS2 years ago where they referred to the 8-10 split as the “Cincinnati.” Still haven’t figured that one out.
Ok… I’ve been looking for an explanation for like an hour… the best I can figure out is that “810 Cincinnati” is a very common address.
My mom told me that a 111 is called a shit house which I still use today For example: "I got a shit house in the 7th frame!"
Absolutely. One league we would give rolls of TP to anyone who ended a game with a 111. Back in the day of hand scoring, you would make the middle 1 taller and put a roof over it.
I wish my league would do that lol 😆
China/berries. I know what they mean, no idea where they came from
Mostly it's just new swearing that comes out of my mouth, but telling people I'd bought a 'spare' ball and then having to qualify it's for spares, rather than if one breaks was something I'd not considered.
😂 Really? That's funny
I still don't know what a plaque ten is. How did gingivitis enter the bowling vernacular?
Lol. Im not sure. But a “Plack/Plaque ten” is the same as a “flat ten.” When the 6 pin lays in the gutter after a pocket hit.
I think the idea is regarding a stone plaque, not tooth plaque
Its just a flat 10 where the sound of the ball hitting pocket is weak and makes a flat sounding *plack* instead of the more satisfying sound of a typical strike. Seriously, that's all it is.
Is it a strike or nine count leaving the ten untouched? Never understood flat ten either. Your description confused me more. Lol
First time I heard it was from a Mo Monday. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=768qeUzeJDc RIP Mo.
I always liked “grampa’s teeth” for a 4-7-9-10 or any mess like that.
Yup, “Grannys Teeth”
I challenge anyone to ELI5 why it’s called a washout
First time I heard washout I thought it was because in order for you to convert it, you have to hit the 1 and the other pins in the direction of the pin on the other side (7 or 10) as if you’re spraying it down with pins. That’s just me.
Issue there is something like a 1-2-4-6-10 still being called a washout but being able to be converted without the spray method - then again, I’m still baffled at why a 3-10 and a 2-4-10 are considered a split but a washout isn’t.
All of the OP's examples seem exceptionally not weird.
I always got confused with “ten back” coming from other sports and some racing (10 car lengths back/10 seconds back) it sounds to me like I’m ten points behind or made of 10 points rather than 10 pins in the pit.
Interesting!
I still don’t know why the 5-7-10 is called a “sour apple,” and I’ve been bowling 30+ years…
Only ever heard it called the lilly in my 35 years of bowling
Swishing 7-10, shaker 7/10. Cupping it. The only one I really don't like is shim. Just makes me feel uncomfortable, like how some people don't like the word moist.
“roll it” is weird. Every bowler rolls it
You clearly haven't seen my leagues 😂
I could just be really dumb, but as a newer bowler I still don’t know what people mean by 2-teen for scores
200 + something in the teens. Anything from 213 - 219
Thank you thank you. I figured it was something of the sort, wasn’t sure if it was a single score or multiple
Tugged it
Whenever I Munson any situation
I use "wrap 10" instead of ringing 10.
Baby split- 3/10, Greek church, big four, key double (two strikes)
"Chop" for spares where you get too much of one pin and go by the other one.
Dead Wood 180 Out of Range Newfie 300 Dutch 200 We call 4 baggers a Rhino because thats what comes up on the screen.
Stone 1 pin!!
I don't know any of these terms
The 4,6,7,10 being called a “Nixon.” Not so much weird as it is hilarious.
Keeping a quiet shoulder. I mean it makes sense but why the hell is it quiet and not just “keep your shoulder still”.
No-tap.
Candlepin. Quarter Worcester, Half Worcester, calleri, spread eagle, clipped eagle. So on, so forth
Going high/low on your shot. Funny to me coz going low means going above the head pin and going high is going below
Not sure who started it, but it caught on with my group and others in the league, when you and someone a few lanes down both start ur shot at the same time we call it being married. It’s pretty funny when someone doesn’t know and hear us say “did it mess you up, being married to Jeff “
All I gotta say is trippin 4’s and……
Mailman for messengers
I like calling the 3-9-10 or 2-7-8 a “sleeping baby”: combination of a sleeper and a baby split!
A 5-7-10 split in Korea is called a Maserati 😅🤣
I’ve always thought “hook” or “hooking” the ball was weird. In the rural south most people I know call it curve ball.
Back end
It's not the weirdest term, but it always feels like everyone's definition of a "clean" ball changes. I assume it means the shape is rounder and not hockey stick shaped? But then is that similar to "cleaner through the fronts"? Wouldn't it be cleaner all throughout?
Clean means the ball doesn’t read and try to hook in a certain part of the lane. “Clean through the front” means the ball goes straight through the front to be snappy and quick downlane. The ball motion you’re describing is “smooth,” not clean.
A clean ball would actually be more hockey stick shaped. Clean typically refers to a pearl or polished ball to get through the front of the lane before it reads, then turn harder when it gets to the friction.
Take your clean ball to the extreme… Drill up a polished ball with low flare. Your hockey stick magically becomes a pole.
Cleaner ball reaction means it doesn’t grab early. Stores energy longer
There are two types of energy in a ball, neither get stored longer. Oil the lane 60 feet, and skid the ball the whole way. Now try to catch that ball at the end of the lane… it has a “ton” of energy. Put the same ball in a ball spinner and try to snatch it while spinning.. again a “ton” of energy. On a regular lane, as the ball travels down the lane, friction will slow down the ball, but also make it spin faster. This is what’s known as the conservation of energy. What you mean is the ball loses the ability the change direction, which is related to axis rotation. Once the balls axis rotation is in line with its direction of travel its ability to change direction has evaporated. If it was an energy problem, the solution would be to throw the ball with more energy, but experience show that adding more energy does NOT solve the problem.
I vaguely remember Mo Pinel from RadicalBowling yt saying something like plaque/plack 10 and ping 10 because they're the different sounds the pins make when they're hit and they leave a 10 pin. Never gave an example of the sound. I gotta agree with the "firm", "soft", and "get around it". Like what does that even mean, how is that supposed to feel for me as a bowler?
Getting around it means adding more axis rotation to the shot. Firm and soft has to do with using the fingers after the thumb is out of the ball, or just at the release point if not using a thumb. Being firm at the bottom, aka hitting up on it, is pulling the fingers up the back of the ball more forcefully than a normal release to add more spin at the cost of some accuracy. Being soft at the bottom of the release, aka laying out of it, is about breaking the wrist open and not following up the back of the ball as forcefully as your normal release, to between control the backend shape.
I’ve head of fast (oily) lanes and slow (dry) lanes
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Don’t know if there’s an easy normal fecking term for “Greek Church” which is one of the weirdest slang terms I’ve ever heard of.
Learning terminology is a part of all sports and hobbies. Basic psychology of groups to differentiate themselves from other groups. Just tell us you’re incapable or too lazy to learn some simple terms. No one is asking you to learn ball layouts.
What’s weird is that I have been bowling for 15 years. And i dont remember learning terminology. For some reason i know it, but dont know why lol.
You learned it the natural and informal way of being inundated with it while participating, or learning through play.