- Arrows
- Slang for darts.
- Bed
- A section of a number, usually used when referring to triples and doubles (e.g., the triple 20 bed). All three darts in the same triple is called Three in a Bed.
- Bed And Breakfast
- A British term for the score of 26 in an 01 game, from hitting a 20 and one each of the adjacent numbers, 1 and 5.
- Black Bull or Double Bull
- The smaller, center portion of the bull’s-eye, also known as the Inner Bull.
- Bull
- The bull’s-eye, which has an Outer Bull and an Inner Bull.
- Busted
- Too many points scored.
- Cork
- The bull’s-eye.
- Cow’s Ass
- A Double Bull. This term was first coined by Tom Le, a Dallas Dart Player. You will hear it often when Tom is around.
- Diddle or Shooting For Cork
- Slang for the game-beginning convention in which the player who throws a dart closest to the bull’s-eye goes first.
- Double In
- Hitting the double area of a number to begin a game.
- Double Out
- Hitting the double area of a number to end a game.
- Eights
- Slang for 18s in Cricket.
- Fallout
- Slang for unintended, but scorable, darts (e.g., hitting an 18 when aiming for the 20, but being able to score the 18).
- Fat
- The largest part of the number. To shoot “fat” is to aim for a sure and safe single.
- Fives
- Slang for 15s in Cricket.
- Flat Tire
- Dart that misses the board completely and lands in the black ring around the board.
- Good Group!
- A compliment for tight, accurate throwing.
- Hat Trick
- Slang for hitting three bulls in one turn.
- High Ton
- A score of over 150 points, requiring more than just three bulls.
- In The Black
- Term for hitting the black or double bull.
- Low Ton
- A score of 100 to 150 points.
- Mugs Away
- Slang term for a convention whereby the loser of a game starts the next game.
- Nine Mark or Whitehorse
- A perfect cricket round in which three triples are scored. Similarly, this is followed by the EIGHT MARK, SEVEN MARK and SIX MARK.
- Nines
- Slang for 19s in Cricket.
- Pie or Wedge
- Any of the numbered segments on the dartboard.
- Point Mongering
- Derogatory term for shooting excessive points, usually in the game of Cricket.
- Right There!
- Encouraging words for a just-missed dart.
- Robin Hood
- Whenever a dart strikes and sticks into another dart on the dartboard.
- Round
- Any three-dart turn. SEVENS. Slang for 17s in Cricket.
- Shanghai
- Hitting a triple, double and single of the same number in a three-dart turn; also the game of the same name.
- “Show Me One”
- Phrase stated by winner of the coin flip when they want the opposing team to throw the diddle first.
- Six Dart Out
- A perfect game in 301.
- Sixes
- Slang for 16s in Cricket.
- “That’s why they give you three”
- Said when someone misses the first two darts and then HITS what they aimed at with the Third Dart.
- Ton
- A score of 100 or more points, scored as a T.
- Ton Eighty
- A perfect score of 180, the highest score possible on a dartboard. Three triple 20s scored as T80.
- Tough Darts
- A common saying when darts almost hit their mark or bounce off the wire.
Director’s Note:
Every time a person plays in a Regularly Scheduled Nightly Circuit tournament, a Special Event tourney, or a Dartistry Qualification Satellite Location ‘in-house’ tourney they earn ONE ‘Credit’ toward their personal Dartistry Championships season-end Qualification Status. When they earn 10 credits they earn FREE Entry Fees at the Dartistry Championships.