The language of darts

It is almost impossible to start to play darts without knowing some of the language which goes with the game.

• 3 in a bed - throwing 3 darts at the same number/area on the board
• Baby ton - score of 95
• Bag o’ nuts - score of 45
• Bail out dart - the third dart to be thrown that hits the board after the first 2 missed in/fell out.
• Basement - double 3s
• Bed and breakfast - score of 26
• Black dog - the double bull
• Black eye - centre of the bullseye
• Bull calf - score of 23
• Cats on the counter - the game has been won, and the winners are expecting the loser to buy them a drink
• Century - score of 100 or more in one round
• Choke - to miss the game shot
• Circle-it - score of less than 10 in a single round
• Clock - refers to the dartboard
• Connaught rangers - score of 88
• Dead-eye - 3 double-bullseyes in one turn
• Downstairs - bottom of the board
• Fall out - refers to when the players hits a scoring dart whilst aiming for elsewhere on the board
• Feathers - score of 33
• Game on - request for silence at the start of a turn/throw/game
• Happy meal - score of 69
• Heinz - score of 57
• Island - the player area of the board, e.g. the part inside the outer double wires
• Left field - term used when your darts are no way near where you were aiming for
• Leg - one game in a match
• Lock and load - used when trying to give encouragement to your team player
• Level pegs - when the players have a level score
• Lord Nelson - score of 111
• Lord Sherborne - also used for a score of 33 (mainly used in the Cotswolds)
• Married man’s side - refers to the left-hand area of the board where the numbers are of a high average
• Mug’s away - when the loser of the last leg automatically starts the new one
• Oxo - zero
• Pie - any part of the scoring area on the dartboard
• Poor man’s triple - when the player hits 3 of the same single
• Robin Hood - sticking one dart into the back of another
• Shanghai - hitting a single, double or triple of the same number in a row
• Sheriff - the player who is in the lead
• Steady - score of 60
• Sunset strip - a score of 77 which is obtained in one throw
• Trombones - scoring 76 in one throw
• Umbrellas - score of 77 (can be obtained with any number of throws)
• Up in Annie’s room - means that the player now needs a double 1
• Weaver’s donkey - score of 42
• Wet feet - feet that have crossed the throwing line
• Wood - missing the dartboard completely
• Woody - hitting the dartboard but outside the scoring area