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

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