DG Vocab List - Fun or Catchy Terms

[Donovan]

I would love to hear the list of terms you have heard or came up with that seems to be catching on in your area. Here are 2 I have been using recently. Please post as many as you want. It will be interesting to see what kind of list come out of this.

Dead Man - when your putt hits the side of the basket and falls straight down to the ground. Note: This came from a guy in Fort Worth who is a pretty good player. Didn't get his name though. I had to make the joke of saying, "Dead Man Walking." when his friend was walking toward the basket to pick it up.

Chain Smoking - This is when someone has made 2 great putts in a row. He is considered to be Chain Smoking on Chain Smokin'.

[Olorin]

· Annie – anhyzer
· Bogey Sandwich - A scorecard that reads: 2 4 4 2 for any four consecutive holes for par the hard way.
· Bowling – Rolling
· Big Fat McNasty - There are numerous uses for this…a stagnant pond, a knotty tree, a gusty wind...
· Black Ace- when your first throw goes in the basket of the wrong hole.
· Cabbage –The undergrowth off the fairway. (same as “shule”, “spinach”)
· Chastity belt -n. the yellow band on top of the Innova basket
· Clank - v. The sickening sound that a putt makes when it hits the yellow chastity belt at the top of an Innova Discatcher doesn't go in. As in "I clanked it"
· Coondogging - when your roller hits the trunk of a tree
· Dinner's ready- when your putt hits the number plate square and it makes that ding sound. (Same as “doink” and “Hit the nickel”)
· Doink – A putt that hits the number plate (same as “Dinner’s ready” and “Hit the nickel”)
· Edgie- When the disc dives sharply and sticks into the ground on it’s edge (same as “tombstone”)
· Fly-By: putt correct height, poor aim.
· Fluke deuce- a lucky two that you got from a fortunate bounce toward the basket.
· Four with a Twist- Taking a circle four, three shots plus an O.B. stroke.
· Gaack -v. miss typically a short putt. As in “I gaacked that putt”
· Georged - when you fail to “watch out for that tree”
· Grenade- any shot that is high and fall fast straight down to the ground
· Handful- 5 strokes on a hole.
· Head Banger - when your drive lands under the basket and you might bang you head on the basket as you pick it up.
· Hit the nickel - when your putt hits the number plate square and it makes that ding sound. (Same as “Dinner’s ready” and “Doink”)
· Hockey stick- seven throws on one hole.
· Homeboy route- a shot with good results through a narrow opening in trees.
· Horking -adj. a monstrous throw. As in “horking hyzer”.
· "I believe you're away" - said to a friend who hits the tree five feet in front of the tee
· Jekyll and Hyde round – one nine is great and the other nine is a monster.
· Knife shot - vertical hyzer
· Locals route: taking a not recommended line that somehow gets you to the basket.
· Lumberjacking - when you’re hitting nothing but trees.
· Makin' Minis: when one disc lands on another (it looks like the discs are humping.)
· Mirkwood forest- that place in the woods where, if you throw there, you can never get your disc back.
· Mullet-n.- A pro that doesn’t cash, so he pays his entry fees to others. It refers to being in the "feeder pool" or being "bait fish". Synonyms: donor, sucker, shark bait. As in “Don't be a mullet!”
· To “nice” someone – v. As in “You niced me". An apparently nice shot that everyone comments on...NICE SHOT...while it’s still in flight. But then suddenly hits something no one expected.
· Nickel – getting 5 on a hole
· Noodlearm - Player with no "D”.
· Nuclear shule – extremely bad rough.
· Pachinko, Pin Ball - hitting several trees
· Paper plate (n) 1. an extremely understable disc; 2. commonly a lighter weight, beat-up disc
· Pig-Putt –n. a putt that's weak! weak! weak! (best results when spoken with an inhale).
· Pinball – a shot that hits several trees.
· Pinball Wizard – after someone’s shot hits multiple trees.
· Pringled - when you smack the disc hard into a tree
· Rooted - when the tree root stops your skip shot
· Sally/(sallied) v. - when your drive/putt comes up way short
· Saturn - a score of 6 (6th planet) with "rings" (OB circle(s))
· Secret Squirrel- a shot that SOMEHOW goes through the biggest bunch of shule and emerges on the same line it entered and ends up parked!
· Seeing eye disc- a shot that miraculously makes it through a thick set of trees.
· Shank- any shot that does not do what you wanted.
· Shule - heavy undergrowth off the fairway (same as “cabbage”, “spinach”).
· Skittle (also skibble). The action of a disc grinding a long way on the dirt/ground on the way to the pin. Usually shouted as a command for the disc to travel farther on the ground (for example, "SKITTLE!)
· Sneak- in flight instruction to the disc to avoid anything with leaves and/or bark
· Snob – a throw with the nose of the disc up
· Snowman - a natural score of 8
· Snowangel - a score of 8 with a "halo" (OB circle(s))
· Spinach – bushes, trees, and undergrowth. As in "That's in the spinach." (same as “cabbage”, “shule”).
· Squirrel killer - a roller shot that runs up the trunk of a tree (same as “coondogging”).
· Taco - v. To smash a disc into a tree so that it folds like a taco. A saying that goes with this is “Need some sauce for that taco?”
· “That wasn't there last time I played this hole" and "Was that there when I teed off?"- said when hitting some long time obvious obstacle like a tree off the tee.
· Tombstone- a disc that impales the ground, and remains standing on edge, usually stuck in the wet ground/mud a few inches. (same as “Edgie”)
· Tournament Roll - When your disc hits the basket and rolls farther away than your original shot
· Treeflection - the tree gives good kick
· Treejection - the tree gives bad kick
· Treejectory - when your redirected by the branch
· Tree-mendous - when your errant shot finds wood and bounces in an auspicious way
· Valet service - When you park your drive under the basket

[Olorin]

· BOB - Back of the Box. Last to throw
· CFR - Candy Fund Raiser. Special Innova candy plastic discs to raise funds.
· CTP - Closest to the Pole
· DL- Dead Last (sanitized version of DFL)
· FAT - First Available Tree
· HBBD - Home Boy Bag Drop - A place to leave your disc bag when you have to a long walk to the tee and will be coming back to the same area after your throw. The home players of a course know this spot and put their bags down, but new players carry their bag to the tee and back.
· LB - Lucky Bounce. When your disc bounces off a tree in such a way that it helps you.
· MAC - Mid Air Correction. Caused by hitting a tree. It’s usually bad, but sometimes good.
· NPR - No Putt Required
· PDS - Poor Disc Selection
· PGA - Pretty Good Approach
· SED - Seeing Eye Disc. A shot that sneaks its way through the trees in a remarkable way.
· YSA - You’re Still Away

[Donovan]

Olorin,
Those are great, where did you get that list from?



Anybody else have any?

[mobster]

We use the term "munson" for when a disc gets stuck in a tree.

[mike_riewer]

Orlin,
Where and how did you come up with so many crazy terms? Nice work, I like them all. I mean how often can you use black ace? Has that ever happened?

Plinko - a disc falling from a tree

[DGtourist]

what an awesome thred!

Thank you treesus. (when it helps)
And
Tree-nied. (when they don't)

we will have to add ours to Orlin's monster list in the end.

[Donovan]

Gust from the Gods - when the wind completely changed the shot (sometimes good and sometimes really bad)

Going South - when your disc starts diving down into a drop off, like a creek or gorge instead of making it across as in "You're going South."

Grab Your Fins - said after someone just sent their disc swimming ('snorkel' also used)

[JoshC]

Gettin' Greasy...... sneakin through the trees.
HittaHouse.... when youre off line and you WANT your disc to smash a tree

[ERicJ]

Awesome. This list should be on the recommended reading list for all new players.

[MattK]

Lawn Dart - a disc that has landed partially buried in the ground, sticking up nearly vertically.

[Olorin]

Olorin,
Those are great, where did you get that list from?

These were collected from a similar thread on the PDGA message board where I used to spend way too much time. I've got a bunch of stuff like that I've collected over the years.

You can find more stuff like this at DG Resources, http://sports.groups.yahoo.com/group/DGResources/

[Olorin]

I read a new one today-
LAMs- Long Armed Mutants

[Donovan]

We came up with another one for when your disc hits a tree root that is sticking out of the ground. You were 'Up-Rooted!'

[DirtyMittenDG]

"merked", when you get hit in the head from someones throw off of the tee

[magictenor1]

How often does that happen?

[DirtyMittenDG]

ive seen it twice, one was alright, the other was kinda bad, but both somewhat funny, moments I wish i had a video camera for, the best part is that it happend both times to the same person, :)

[JogginJohn]

I don't know about the head, but I have been hit in the back of the hand by someones tee-off. Getting hit by a drive at 5 ft is no fun at all.

[Donovan]

ive seen it twice, one was alright, the other was kinda bad, but both somewhat funny, moments I wish i had a video camera for, the best part is that it happend both times to the same person, :)

Here is a picture of the guy who got hit. ;)

http://pereiraville.com/scribble/wp-content/uploads/2006/10/bighead1.jpg

[DirtyMittenDG]

lol, he got "merked"

[ehillis]

That is amazingly comprehensive. How about wormburning for a turfed drive that just (unintentionally) skips down the fairway?

[JConnell]

That is amazingly comprehensive. How about wormburning for a turfed drive that just (unintentionally) skips down the fairway?

Hi ehillis...small world! I found your site the other day via reddit (and gave your link +1). I really enjoy the articles!

[ehillis]

Thanks JConnell! I really appreciate it! That is pretty funny though, I guess the world of disc golf isn't all that big. It's certainly growing though!

[sk8architecture]

Q it up!!!

This means stepping up to the tee pad with no warm up and ripping your drive down the fairway and parking it under the basket.

[gcoghill]

"Canadian Girlfriend" - throwing an ace or an amazing shot when you are out on the course by yourself.

Obviously a reference to Sixteen Candles. This one came up when we were throwing our home course the other day, and I mentioned I had an amazing throw on a hole we were currently shooting, and my buddy replied "Yeah, and I bet you have a really hot girlfriend, but she lives in Canada".

Also use "Tombstone" (as an earlier poster listed) for those discs that stick edge-on into muddy/soft ground. And the previously-posted "Lumberjacking" for when you keep hitting trees.

Another term we use on heavily wooded courses with many small-ish trees, when someone throws an overhand/tomahawk throw and the disc magically weaves between many small trees as it turns over, without hitting any: the "Millenium Falcon", just like when said spaceship is flying through the asteroid field in "The Empire Strikes Back".

[Doktor John]

These are great...I guess my DG vocabulary has been incredibly boring (until now)

When I saw the pic of the guy who got merked, I almost choked on my tea...lol

I've been merked once and I've seen a black ace once....both were done by a friend of mine I introduced to DG and both were within his first couple months of playing...now I have to inform him of the proper descriptive terms for his "skill"

[Donovan]

These are great...I guess my DG vocabulary has been incredibly boring (until now)

When I saw the pic of the guy who got merked, I almost choked on my tea...lol

I've been merked once and I've seen a black ace once....both were done by a friend of mine I introduced to DG and both were within his first couple months of playing...now I have to inform him of the proper descriptive terms for his "skill"

Black Ace - Keep in mind bro, he can still call it a hole in one, just not an offical hole in one. :D

[nosajeel99]

These aren't really 'terms' but phrases that my friends and I used to always say such as, "That would've been in if it wasn't for that tree." It was especially appropriate when the tree was 10 feet from the tee box.

Then there are the ever infamous words you never want to hear, "It's still your shot."

[Olorin]

These aren't really 'terms' but phrases that my friends and I used to always say such as, "That would've been in if it wasn't for that tree." It was especially appropriate when the tree was 10 feet from the tee box.

That one really made me chuckle. :D So I added it to my list under the new category "Phrases".

I can really relate to it on our wooded NC courses. One time (at Cedar Hills #5) my drive hit a tree 50 ft from the tee on an uphill fairway, then it landed on edge and rolled back down the hill 5 ft behind the tee box! Another time, at Sedgley Woods in Philly, on a back 9 hole I threw a tomahawk from the tee that hit a tree 40 ft away and bounced straight back 6 feet behind the tee pad! I wish I'd had this phrase then! :o

[HarbDeaf]

Cool. Was working on a DG clinic manual and had a glossary will pick out the juicy ones and stick 'em in there!

Tree Love – A throw where the discs hits a tree and it actually helps your throw.

Tree Hate - A throw where the disc hits the tree, and it actually makes the throw worse for you.

Sandbagger - A player who plays in a catagory below his/her level in order to beat the easier competition.

[Cody42]

Stick Disc- when the disc sticks in the ground

Intercourse- two or more disc land close to each other

Tree love/hate

[JConnell]

Suprised this wasn't on here already but:

Helicopter - A shot that needs to come straight down at the end without curving. Usually preformed with a putter.

[JConnell]

Does anyone know of a term for hitting the chains from a tee-pad but NOT getting the ace? This happened to me yesterday and I've been trying to think of a term to describe the emotional roller coaster that it took me on. I literally jumped and yelled with joy when I heard it hit, then cursed the world and everything in it when I saw it fall to the ground, then smiled and smirked the entire walk to the basket for my birdie putt. :D

[petecarp]

tickling the chains? we play with payout for a chain tickle. $1 for metal, $3 for chains, $5 for an ace.

[Donovan]

Does anyone know of a term for hitting the chains from a tee-pad but NOT getting the ace? This happened to me yesterday and I've been trying to think of a term to describe the emotional roller coaster that it took me on. I literally jumped and yelled with joy when I heard it hit, then cursed the world and everything in it when I saw it fall to the ground, then smiled and smirked the entire walk to the basket for my birdie putt. :D

I call it a "Nice Shot!" ;)

[gcoghill]

I think it's called an "Eagle" :P

[JConnell]

I like tickling the chains :)

I think it's called an "Eagle" :P An eagle is when you score 2 under par on a par 4 or greater, i.e. 2 on a par 4 or 3 on a par 5.

[ZMan44]

I hope this doesn't offend anyone, but around here if you hit the chains and bounce out on your tee shot it is referred to as "kissing the panties"

[Midnightbiker]

This is going to sound silly, but when ever someone hits several trees with their disc before it hits the ground, we holler out " He's a Pinball Wizard."

[bikedoctor]

......your tee shot it is referred to as "kissing the panties"

:p No you didn't. I had a horrible day and that just made it better.

[sidewinding]

Apartied - when everyone in the group gets a par on the hole.

It's your box - It's a fun way to tell the guy who doesn't realize he's up that he's up. It's usually the guy that's still cheezin from the birdie he just made.

A rip - The perfect drive. Everyone knows it as soon as it is released.

Frisbee eater - A tree that's always hungry for fresh plastic.

To ice someone - it usually happens when two people are playing and the score is tied and player A makes a throw that is so great that it causes player B to choke.

[DGtourist]

good stuff man

[Godard]

·To “nice” someone – v. As in “You niced me". An apparently nice shot that everyone comments on...NICE SHOT...while it’s still in flight. But then suddenly hits something no one expected.

We call this "Yorking" or "New Yorking". It tends to go like this:

"Great shot! Right down the middle!"
"Dude don't York me like that!"
Then a branch appears in the middle of the fairway and knocks the disc down into some thorns.

You can also York someone on a putt, guaranteeing that the disc will bounce off the rim or the chains.

[petecarp]

"Conservation of Greatness" - making a horrible throw after a jaw-droppingly absurd throw.

[DannyM]

I think this is kind of a "local" saying around here, but we have a few severe right hand turn holes on my home course, and our TD for the course is a lefty, so we call them "lefty" holes.

[DannyM]

oops ...forgot another. "Library putt"....a putt that goes into the basket without touching a chain.

[Pastime]

oops ...forgot another. "Library putt"....a putt that goes into the basket without touching a chain.

I like that one!

[Adam Schneider]

Does anyone know where the term "shule" came from? Most of our weird vocab seems at least somewhat logical (tree love, wormburner, black ace, etc.), but shule mystifies me.

Maybe it's a euphemism for "in the sh.."?

[Olorin]

Does anyone know where the term "shule" came from? Most of our weird vocab seems at least somewhat logical (tree love, wormburner, black ace, etc.), but shule mystifies me.

Maybe it's a euphemism for "in the sh.."?

If memory serves me I think it was started by the old Winnie Crew- Todd Branch, Dave Feldberg, & Avery Jenkins. But I have no idea how they came up with it. Someone can search the archives of disclife.com

[Olorin]

Satellite parking- when you park your drive under the wrong basket

[bikedoctor]

"heeere doggy" followed by everyone whistling like their calling a dog, as your disc rolls right past you away from the basket and back down the hill leaving you a longer shot than you started with.

Best part was the complete unexpectedness of the whole event as I rarely disc with these players and smiling about my misfortune as opposed to the normal bout of self doubt.

[Donovan]

This is one a noob said by accident and it stuck. When someone hits the pole or surrounds it on the ground they are a "Pole Dancer." Oh, and don't forget to throw in the occasional, "Work it, work it, OWN IT!" :D

[t i m]

Let's see, lots of good material on this list, but a few more that are worth adding/propagating. Except for "brown ace," which is universal, most of these are terms just my friends and I use, but worth sharing because they always make me laugh.

"Brown ace" -- the term for when a hole has two or more permanent baskets on it and you ace the wrong basket (was playing with a friend who did this back in the spring). The idea here is that it was a totally fluke shot and you didn't hit anywhere near the hole where you were aiming.

"Teabag" - when you jump in a pond/stream to retrieve your disc and the water is waist high. As in "I had to teabag to get my disc back." "I could see my disc out in the water, but it wasn't worth teabaggin' to get it."

"Skirt" - used in a variety of ways to suggest someone wasn't forceful/powerful/confident enough in their shot. For instance, when someone's putt is short of the the basket, "Next time, take off your skirt and putt." Or for a short drive, "Looks like your skirt got in the way of your throw." Or in contrast, if someone has a risky shot and you want to advise them to play it safe, say, "Just put your skirt on and lay-up."

"Viagra" -- used when someone's shot is too low or plows into the ground, as in, "Nice shot, you just need to rub a little more viagra on it."

"Hey ___, it's you're birthday." -- said in a singsong voice, usually accompanied by an obnoxious dance, to try to distract the person throwing/putting. Not useful in tourney rounds, but great for casual rounds with friends when all distractions are fair game.

"Putting for the moon" -- related to the idea that all distractions are fair game, on more than one occasion on game-winning putts, a friend has stood behind the basket, dropped their pants and mooned the person who is about to putt.

"Carrollton Pimp Shot" -- this came about one day at Jimmy Porter disc golf course in Carrollton, TX -- we were playing and came up on old hole 17 and watched a big old guy rip a huge horking backhand hyzer out over the powerlines and down towards the basket. This was a pretty open hole with lots of good lines towards the basket. The guy's throw was such a gratuitous, unnecessary, memorable throw that it earned its own name. So huge, huge, huge full-power, super-high backhand hyzers that waste tons of energy (and can potentially dislocate joints) can earn this name.

"Futher-Mucker," "Son of a Drunken Monkey," "Flibbertigibbit," etc... these are great personal euphamisms for more vulgar terms. Usually, disc golf is happening in a public place, and we help the image of the sport if we are careful with what we say. Also, for what it's worth, I've never seen anyone enforce the rule, but you can get warned/stroked for vulgarity in PDGA tourney play. Find some good personal euphamisms for bad words... the best part is that you sound so silly that it's hard to stay mad. Usually makes me laugh and I forget my frustration.

I know there are lots of others, but those are top-of-mind this morning.

[basmith42]

We use the name "Grog" to describe throws that are more power than finesse.
Think of a cave man and grunt "Grog just throws disc and eat" or "Grog doesn't know how to putt.. just drive".

Its common enough in our friends that we're giving a way a plush T-Rex at a bachelor party this weekend as the "Grog Award".

[Bensontbjj]

I like Black Ace myself. Haven't seen it but I would think that hearing chain from the tee box would be exciting!

[Adam Schneider]

"Brown ace" -- the term for when a hole has two or more permanent baskets on it and you ace the wrong basket (was playing with a friend who did this back in the spring). The idea here is that it was a totally fluke shot and you didn't hit anywhere near the hole where you were aiming.
That reminds me, there ought to be a term for when you're on a hole where you can't see the basket from the teepad, and you throw a beautiful shot that goes exactly where you wanted it to go... and when you get up there and find your disc, THEN you discover that the basket's actually in the other placement.

[davetherocketguy]

Plinko - When you hit more than one tree on a single throw ala The Price Is Right game.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDl6jYV-re4

-Dave

[Donovan]

Grip Lock or Grip Locked - When you hold onto your disc too long on a throw. (heard this one today. pretty true term for many of us.)

[tomjulio]

This is one a noob said by accident and it stuck. When someone hits the pole or surrounds it on the ground they are a "Pole Dancer." Oh, and don't forget to throw in the occasional, "Work it, work it, OWN IT!" :D

hahaha! Going to be using this one...that's if someone doesn't use it on me first!

[sidewinding]

A Nelson Mandela - same as apartied

A Bob Bark er - a high velocity horizontal plinko

A Martha Stewart - a serious nose up drive like newbies tend to do.

A Lieberman - When a person who normally throws RHBH swithches to LHBH and vice versa

[atl scott]

Star frame - everyone on the card birdies (alt. star par for a tough par for everyone)

field ace - long made shot from the fairway (usually on a par 4 for a 2)

we're live - said to let someone know you are about to throw so you can focus during a tourney

fluffed it - soft, nose-up shot

wedgie - disc that sticks in the side of the basket

tester - a putt that's just out of your comfort zone

barney's - newer players that don't use common courtesy (esp. not returning discs with name/#'s)

[Olorin]

HBB = Home Boy Bias. When someone inflates their rating of a course only because it's their home course.

[RustyP]

When someone doinks a short putt because they didn't extend their arm far enough, we used to call that "T-Rexing it" (get it? tiny little arms)...it made a lot more sense before Innova released the TeeRex though ;)

One of my favorites is when someone's shot looks awesome then smacks that one tree that nobody saw...their shot got "tree-nied".

[jedwards]

When someone doinks a short putt because they didn't extend their arm far enough, we used to call that "T-Rexing it" (get it? tiny little arms)...it made a lot more sense before Innova released the TeeRex though ;)

Funny -- you could start using our term for that to avoid the confusion: Gator Arming (they also have tiny arms):D

[RustyP]

Almost forgot another favorite...when 2 discs land right on top of each other..."Makin' Minis"

[trifocal]

That reminds me, there ought to be a term for when you're on a hole where you can't see the basket from the teepad, and you throw a beautiful shot that goes exactly where you wanted it to go... and when you get up there and find your disc, THEN you discover that the basket's actually in the other placement.

How about Future Birdie.
If you just wait a few days, the basket will be moved back and there's your bird.

or maybe an Einstein Deuce (time is relative )

[iDisc]

skeeter- forehand shot with the "thumber grip" thrown flat on the ground for a nice bounce around trees

[ERicJ]

It's your box - It's a fun way to tell the guy who doesn't realize he's up that he's up. It's usually the guy that's still cheezin from the birdie he just made.

"Box", as in: "Whose box is it?", "Joe's got the box", etc.. - Short for the "tee box" used to indicate who will throw next, or first on the next hole. Typically determined by the lowest score on the previous hole.

ERic

[Jungle Tim]

Pinche Arbol! - ****ing Tree!!

Bendito Arbol! - Blessed Tree!!

Fue al pinche rio - It went in the ****ing river

Pinche Cabron - who ever did'nt go in the river!

Que Barrrrrrbaro - awesome shot.

TWO!! - Shouted before tee off (in the place of FOUR!) with the intention of clearing the fairway form park goers and attempting to inspire foolish optimism that you might actually get a 2.

jsut tring ro teach par on the posts!

[discflinger]

Great list!! About the only one that I can think that may be missing is Death Grip-holding on to the disc too long.

[Geoffro]

Pinvisible: Related to "brown ace," a hole where you can't see the basket from the tee, as in "this one's pinvisible."

I also love bikedoctor's "heeere doggy."

[dangitboy]

Get legs- when a drive is thrown on a nice line but needs more height or speed to get more distance.

Pimped- when a shot seemes to be perfect but hits something not seen from the tee "right line,right height, just got pimped"

hook up- when you need the shot to hyzer.

donkey- when you miss a ridiculously close or easy putt

[adlacro]

Hex'd: When three people in your group score a six on the same hole.

Jackpot: When three people score a seven on a hole.

Full House: In a group of five, three get the same score and the other get the same score of a different number, i.e. Three score a bogey "4" and the other two par the hole, "3".

Flush: Everyone in your group hits the river on the tee shot.

Yao Ming: The bottom of the basket is too high for you to make the putt.

Queen: If a woman in your group scores higher on a hole than everyone else.

Wide load: The basket is wider than it normally should be ( I have seen these!)

[sidewinding]

"Too deep" - When you throw 320' on a 280' hole.

[DiscChainBasket18]

"Course Maintenance": When you disc breaks off a branch on it's way to the target.
"Beer Me" or "Owe me a beer": when somebody's disc lands on top of yours.
"Safari golf": when you tee off & shoot at different baskets other than the standard course layout. This is pretty fun actually & breaks up the routine of your favorite course.
"Early release program": this is the opposite of "grip lock".

[Lewis]

I've heard "pimped" used when someone edges you out for a CTP prize. CTP, of course, means "Closest to the Pin."

I looked up "shule" on google, and according to the interwebs, it's the Spanish word for a Jewish school. That can't be right. :confused:

[adlacro]

Some more terms:

Off-street parking: When your tee shot looks like it's parked near the basket but then bounces 30 or more feet away and you know you choke putts.

Pin positions (some of my area courses label pin locations as A, B, C, and D)

A: Asinine. This is usually a short location in a bad place , next to the OB area.

B: Bull crap ( or B.S.). The middle length and hard to get to on a tee shot.

C: Cruel. This describes a long hole, pro par 4 or more, and the best part of it is you can't drive more than 300 feet without risking your disc going way off the fairway into crap.

and finally, the D, which stands for dumb. This is usually on the short, tight as heck wooded holes where the basket may only be about 225 feet away, but it requires an anhyzer with about four kicks off trees to even be considered a birdie candidate. You can substitute your favorite cuss words for my nice terms.

[bjreagh]

Another use for "Kissin' the Panties" is when your putt is offline just enough that it hits the outside row of chains only and doesn't go in.

[ScottJB]

Whenever anyone is my group hits two seperate trees in one throw, someone will inevitably say "Who's there?", as in "Knock Knock".
Another is Woodland Park in Collinsville has a fairway that is constantly blocked, at least the forehand line, by an oblivious park employees van, so this is the Mandatory Van, or Van-Do.
Also, I have on more than one occasion had to shoot wide around a family BBQing or walking their dogs in the middle of my fairway, so I am conscious of the Fam-Do.

[ScottJB]

And three trees or more hit before the disc touches the ground..."I think you activated multiball..."

[Donovan]

And three trees or more hit before the disc touches the ground..."I think you activated multiball..."

Nice one ScottJB!

"Parking permit" You tell someone they just got their parking permit validated when they park the disc under the basket after a long shot.

[borndasaur]

"Army Golf" throwing to alternate sides of the fairway (left, right, left, right)
"Tarzan Golf" throwing from tree to tree to tree.....
"Republican Golf" consistently too far to the right
"Democrat Golf" consistently too far to the left

[Geoffro]

Should there be a term for a discgolf course review poster approaching 100 posts who is gratutiously leaving messages on all threads though he has nothing really to say? I have this friend....

[Brokensaint]

Another term for kissin' the chains: Half-Drunk Cheerleader: when you can get to the hole, but just can't get it in.
Tournament Roll: An accidental roller that not only goes away from the pin, but finds the steepest slope and barrels away at velocity towards another fairway (should be accompanied by the roadrunner theme song)
It's got eyes!: The opposite of a tournament roll, where an accidental roller winds up parked at the basket.
By the power of Greyskull!: Shout this when you or your buddy snaps off an overpowered 350' drive for a 125' approach.
Low and Pro: 2 feet off the ground and straight as an arrow drives. I wish I heard this one more often.
Flyin' Kites: A nose-up drive that goes up up up, stalls and drops to the ground
Thread the needle: any drive that winds its way through a moderate to heavily wooded fairway without hitting wood.
Easy, leatherface!: Say this to your buddy whenever he tries and fails to chainsaw his way through dense rough, hits multiple trees or any other appropriate chainsaw joke that will piss him off.
Top Gun: When you go for the ace run.
Goose: When you go for the ace run and just tank it, because now you've got bogies on your tail.
They've got a pill for that: Any time your buddy has a premature release issue with his throw.

[Brokensaint]

Get it!: An exclamation that imparts the thrower's force of will upon the disc to make it through branches, come back onto the fairway, cross the water, etc. Usually met with varied degrees of success.
Hollywood squares: When all players bogey a hole, because you've each got losers on all sides of you

[ScottJB]

The only problem with "Get It" is it seems to incurr the wrath of the same karma gods who smite your buddies shot when you "Nice" him mid shot, in which case the would've, could've, should've diatribe activates, neccesitating that you inform him he has "Just Should His Pants..."

[Woodpecker]

A walmart - a shot that hits a basket or tree and rolls back at you.

As in Walmart slogan "Roll back prices".

Woodpecker

[borndasaur]

Should there be a term for a discgolf course review poster approaching 100 posts who is gratutiously leaving messages on all threads though he has nothing really to say? I have this friend....

Hmmmmm, let me think about this...

[trifocal]

I have a Somali Girl Friend. I aced a blind basket with no witnesses. 2 Canadian Girl Friends, also. No American Girl Friends. Too many Half-Drunk Cheerleaders. When I leave the office early to throw, I tell my secretary that I have The Hyzer Flu. There's only one remedy. When I have a very bad case, I may be MIA for 3-5 days. A good secretary will suggest follow up care. She would be known as The Hyzer Floozie.
The Aviarian Hyzer Flu is a particularly resistent strain.

[solomon.trenton]

plunker- when you throw your non floating disc in the water and you hear it go "plunk"

[trifocal]

When you gather up "The Usual Suspects" for a round, its nice to have a caddie. Hyzer Floozie is a great caddie, but try not to focus on her limp.

[SimonCarr]

Nice stop - for someone who stopped mid-throw because of a distraction
Get greasy - get lucky
Miss It - don't hit that!
c'MON! - do what you are supposed to!

[discflinger]

Hyzer Floozie is a great caddie, but try not to focus on her limp.

Damn, I need one of those! Does she come complete with infected boil?

[ChainMan]

Entertaining thread.

Holy Roller - A shot that was not intended to be a roller but turns over and becomes one and heads miraculously straight for the pin! :eek:

[Ball-Z]

We have one we call a Major Tom
When someone unintentionally throws really high in the air,
as in "Ground Control to Major Tom"

[gcrussell4]

Deuce bag...that guy who want stop hitting birdies on your card.

[sdecker]

"Jacket", referring to the person in your group who tees off first. Shamelessly borrowed from ball golf (the Green Jacket) and used in two different situations:

1) The guy who won the last game
2) The guy who won the last hole

Usage: "You eagled the last hole, man...it's your jacket" or "I killed everybody last round, so it's still my jacket."

[bazillion]

"Pachinko" when your disc pinballs off multiple trees on its way to the schule.

[ShortBusDiscGolf]

b.o.b.........back of the box. boooooo.

[ShortBusDiscGolf]

tex. it's when you won't shut up while people are playing golf. SUPER - ANNOYING !!!!!

[Midnightbiker]

Lawn Dart - a disc that has landed partially buried in the ground, sticking up nearly vertically.

We call that a head stone, or a tombstone. I know a guy that everytime that happens, he takes a picture of it. He likes to record them for some reason.

[33tango]

"Sky Rockets in Flight" your drive goes up up up and dies out because you got your nose too high on release

[drock2k1]

We will call people Robin Hood or Christopher Robin if they spend too much time in the woods.

There are a couple of trees on our course that we refer to as the birdie eaters. If you split them on one of our holes you are in great shape for a birdie, if you hit them, you can easily end up in the water.

[Marty McFly]

"Jacket", referring to the person in your group who tees off first. Shamelessly borrowed from ball golf (the Green Jacket) and used in two different situations:

1) The guy who won the last game
2) The guy who won the last hole

Usage: "You eagled the last hole, man...it's your jacket" or "I killed everybody last round, so it's still my jacket."

We stay away from murders on the course in Texas. :D

[Huff]

War Eagle: When you scam an individual, or a group, on the internet you have just pulled a War Eagle

[kerplunk]

Chode- a drive that goes further wide than it does long.

[ERicJ]

War Eagle: When you scam an individual, or a group, on the internet you have just pulled a War Eagle
Tim, make sure you have good back ups of this post, because like the guy who invented the smiley (http://www.cs.cmu.edu/%7Esef/sefSmiley.htm), this post might live on in infamy.

[BrotherDave]

hahaha! Going to be using this one...that's if someone doesn't use it on me first!

http://c4.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images02/108/l_936a1f688a024cef8acdfff562a97807.jpg

My buddy's pole dancer aviar

[BrotherDave]

fairy shot - a more or less vertical anhyzer, usually thrown short.
Tee dibs - first to throw.
took the escalator - nose up throw that stalls.
jesus christo - a non floating disc that miraculously lands top down and floats.
invisi-tree - the tree you hit that you could not see.

[billnchristy]

My wife has done some forrestry in her days and I remember one afternoon yelling "Daaaaamn Paul Bunyan!"

[lko102]

We have two markings for our score card when we play:

DNF: Did Not Finish - When, for whatever reason, you decide not to finish a hole (lost disc you have to search for)

DNFF Did Not ******* Finish - When, for reasons of rage and anger you decide to walk to the next tee without finishing a hole. Usually written on the card after a series of spectacularly awful shots.

[ChronoDisc]

the way of the indian--- a tamahawk that is so beautiful that it makes you pee a little

[billnchristy]

I made a new one today. At Lenora there is always a good chance that behind 12s tee and inbetween 13-14-17s baskets there will be a small soccer game going. Today there wasn't but my drive off 17s tee flew way left so I told my wife "if it were any other day I would be hitting mexicans".

So now anything shanked left among us is "hitting mexicans"

[Tyler]

Booger Finger-grip lock
Vaseline hand-disc slips while throwing
Joysticking-when a discs swerves aound many small gaps and trees like the thrower had a joystick.
Javelin-like a tombstone discs sticks on its edge.
Running a Red Light-when someone putts and blows it by the basket.
FISO-"F*** I'm still out"
Speed Bump-when your disc lands on the road.
Paul Bunyan-A player that hits many trees in one round.
Bobsledding-when a tomahawk lands on the stamp side of the disc and slides.

[swellerdiscgolf]

Is it HI-zer or His-zer? My buddy says his-zer.

[BrotherDave]

Oh yeah, we call noobs aka one disc wonders woodpeckers.

[billnchristy]

Oh man my disc was joysticking today.

14 is a 296ft straight on, wide open shot but right at about 250' there is a cluster of trees, if you shoot dead center you have about 30' of gap, if you are to either side there are several other trees and the gap looks very small from the tee.

Anyways, I threw my core and it headed dead at the tree on the right, then, just like you said, it joysticked to the right and then faded left behind the tree...left me about 30' from the pin which I then sunk.

It was wild watching it juke and jive.

[Tyler]

Nice, joysticking is my favorite term by far it is the most accurate way to describe a super scandalous shot that seems to find its way through the weirdest or tightest gaps.

[jwk0522]

Prison throw- an early released throw

[jwk0522]

piss-me-offs-small branches that knock your disc down

[Tyler]

Prison throw- an early released throw

That reminds me of a shot we call the "parole" shot. when you let go to early and ends up decent its released on good behavior.

[MurdaMase]

When my friends and I ask each other if we want to play we ask if "y'all wanna jerk some hawgs" instead of "hey let's play some disc golf."

[MacGyver214]

We use the name "Grog" to describe throws that are more power than finesse.
Think of a cave man and grunt "Grog just throws disc and eat" or "Grog doesn't know how to putt.. just drive".

Its common enough in our friends that we're giving a way a plush T-Rex at a bachelor party this weekend as the "Grog Award".


Hilarious! Some of those can be pretty crude though (i.e. Cheerleader). IDEA: This thread should be condensed for easiest use, one pinned topic updated often with: (Term & a.k.a.'s - meaning/story - attributer).

Apartied - when everyone in the group gets a par on the hole.
A Nelson Mandela - same as apartied

I take it y'all mean "apartheid", which means racial segregation? Yes, I get it, A - Par - Tied....


One I haven't seen in the thread but is probably typically used:
Barrel Roll: When your thumber or tomahawk turns over in flight, resembling a jet plane barrel roll.

Closest variation is
Another term we use on heavily wooded courses with many small-ish trees, when someone throws an overhand/tomahawk throw and the disc magically weaves between many small trees as it turns over, without hitting any: the "Millenium Falcon", just like when said spaceship is flying through the asteroid field in "The Empire Strikes Back".

"merked", when you get hit in the head from someones throw off of the tee

Poor guy.... I take it after this, you have to consult the Merck Manual to diagnose what's wrong?!!! ROFLOL.

[dahig]

piss-me-offs

brought to you by the makers of....

INVISA-BRANCH!!

proud sponsors of most of your wooded bogeys.;)

[ShortBusDiscGolf]

dubbah'.......the guy who just won't SHUT UP!!!

[craftsman]

Pro style- normally said with sarcasm when a friend throws a big hyzer- as in the idea pros can throw hyzers over mountains. And skinny white boy style- throwing fh super low (by your feet low) from the tee.

[reverand_redbeard]

a few local terms;
Lukeing it - when you hit the basket then your putter rolls all the way back down the hill (named for some poor kid that did this a bunch of times during league)
the IRON CURTAIN - when your putter hits the metal ring on the top of the basket

[thepowerofpancakes]

carpet bagger - a minor pro player from the north who comes down south to bag in ADV :)

[ronhoffman2]

We use "posi-wood" (short for positive wood) alot when you get a favorable bounce or hit off a tree. Like an errant drive that hits a tree and the disc ends up in the fairway. That's called posi-wood.

[ronhoffman2]

"Who's got the pad?" When asking who's got honors for teeing it up first on the hole. Or "I got the pad" meaning I'm up first.

[thepowerofpancakes]

"Who's got the pad?" When asking who's got honors for teeing it up first on the hole. Or "I got the pad" meaning I'm up first.

we call that the 'box'

[Ventura_Tom]

Everyone know's that three birdies in a row is called a Turkey or as we say a "gobble gobble". Our course has a large population of Turkey Vultures (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkey_Vulture), so we decided that three bogeys in a row is called a Turkey Vulture.

[CwAlbino]

Luking when i was up in Minnesota. Luke, a friend of mine was known for hitting the basket on a certain hole and rolling all the way down the hill, putting again and rolling all the way down. We coined the term after he got a 7 on the hole after landing next to the basket on his first shot (rolled 4 times down the hill)

I later ran into people that never even knew who luke was using the term when someone had a bad roll

[Moffwicket]

We've always called the Seeing Eye Disc a "Matrix." As in, "Dude, you just Matrixed your way through 10 trees."

[NovaDiscHead]

"In like a 17 year old with a fake ID" is when you barely make a putt.

"Nice Betty Ford" is for a nice recovery from a ****ty lie

"Indy Jones" is when you throw into the thick shule.

[Disc Golf Live]

Horses come in a herd.

Sheep by the flock.

What do you folks call a group of disc golfers?

A cough, of course. You can usually hear them several holes away. Made that one up myself.

And a throw that hits a tree and falls straight down, dead? That would be a Sonny Bono.

Apologies to Cher or anyone else who finds that tasteless.

[Mattallica]

A good shot that gets cut down in it's prime by a unseen branch has been shaqed down

[nygfaninva]

"Punishment roll" What we call the result of a missed putt from long distance or a hill that rolls even longer out of makeable range.

[NDABRUSH]

Horses come in a herd.

Sheep by the flock.

What do you folks call a group of disc golfers?

A cough, of course. You can usually hear them several holes away. Made that one up myself.

And a throw that hits a tree and falls straight down, dead? That would be a Sonny Bono.

Apologies to Cher or anyone else who finds that tasteless.
now that's funny.

[rikardob]

A good shot that gets cut down in it's prime by a unseen branch has been shaqed down

Also known as the Patrick Chewing.

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[Beable]

A guy I work with insists on calling disc golf: gwad for "golf with a disc". He pronounces it gee-wad.

[pacrat77j]

"Who's got the pad?" When asking who's got honors for teeing it up first on the hole. Or "I got the pad" meaning I'm up first.

This term is only good for one week out of the month though. (sorry, but I couldnt help myself)

[corey]

The group of youth I typically play rounds with (I'm a youth minister) have made a habit of "disc whispering." Meaning that we will attempt to talk our discs into doing what we want them to. Kind of like the horse whisperer.

Only more ridiculous.

[stevep]

this is a great list guys. I never had any idea I was missing out on so much of the lingo.

[ChrisMacG]

Also known as the Patrick Chewing.


We call it being Yao Minged in Houston.

[backswing_aplenty]

"He made the Mando!"

If you somehow get some tiny gap yards from the fairway on a bad throw and still get to the fairway my group will congratulate you on "hitting the Mando." Works best when there is no Mando on the hole.

"Here's your restaining order..." or "Get that man a restraining order..."

When someone has had the box all day and is up on everyone be several strokes. This person is said to be "all over the box today." First we must ask them to only see the box on alternate Sundays, then they get the restraining order.

"CLAAAANG!"

The whole card will say this loudly when someone hits the top rim of an Innova basket.

"Git there!"

Said mid-flight of a disc that will definatley be short of the intended target.

*backswing

[prerube]

I could not find if anyone posted this termWar Eagle: Noun, a scammer that likes to deceive people out of plastic or one who performs unethical acts in disc golf.

[rikardob]

Rouge throw: a once in a while shot that goes like 100 feet past your max distance.

[Face]

I only have ones we use in our group of friends, but are pretty fun anyways

"Walk of Shame": Having to walk around a fence in everyones view to get an OB disc

"Way to go Frank Azar" : Driving farther than everyone else. Its a reference to a Denver area lawyer who uses the nickname "the strong arm"

"Someones playing for the Sandal" or "Someones definately not playing for the Sandal" Background: We found a small purple and glittery sandal at the park and started using it for a Bitch tag, so, worst score has to put it on the bag.

"That one pulled an Endor" If a shot weaves in and out of the trees. Referring to Return of the Jedi when they were on the bikes weaving through trees.

[flash86]

Stripper: When you hit the pole after a good run at the basket. I call it a "stripper" because the disc works the pole, teases you and costs you money (if you're playing in a cash game or tournament). Sounds just like the ladies at the gentlemen's club!

[Neophyte]

Olorin you truly are a fount of wisdom.

[pokamitch]

"I'm Bob, who's Bob, your Bob"- as in the order I'm throwing; Back Of the Box. Last thrower on a card

[billnchristy]

Also known as the Patrick Chewing.

Oh hey Patrick....

hehehehhehee....my favorite commercial.

CraigD has a sound that has become part of our game. If you hit the top of an Innova basket you make the fail sound from the Price is Right.

[CaptainAnhyzer]

Captain Crunch - a player that is routinely off the fairway in the woods, stepping on sticks and branches.

Meow - a response to a short putt, i.e. "you're throwin like puzzy"

Don't hit your head - When you park it UNDER the basket

[craigg]

Here's a couple I didn't see in Olorins post.

OTIS in Service - for those shots that hit high, and elevator down into the basket
OTIS Out of service - same shot that doesn't stay in.
Tree-nial - The shot that is denied by a tree
Grike - named for a VA golfer named Rob Grike - is a shot that flails/wobbles badly to the right, catches an edge, and rolls back exactly where it was intended to go

[Neophyte]

Captain Crunch - a player that is routinely off the fairway in the woods, stepping on sticks and branches.

Meow - a response to a short putt, i.e. "you're throwin like puzzy"

Don't hit your head - When you park it UNDER the basket

I like Captain Crunch, pretty creative.

[sidewinding]

the way of the indian--- a tamahawk that is so beautiful that it makes you pee a little

It takes alot to make me lol but this one did it. I'm going to learn to tamahawk just so I can use this term.

[Timber]

Skunks - Players on the last card in their division after the first round in a tournament.

[CaptainAnhyzer]

Worm Burner - a throw that skims the ground

[Mattallica]

my brother calls throwing tomahawk throwing "frat boy style"

[mashnut]

my brother calls throwing tomahawk throwing "frat boy style"

So funny, and so true.

[ChainMan]

Actually heard this from somebody who posts here...

OH MY GRIPLOCK!

[adh56]

Bat-Wing: A huge hyzer, thrown into wind, that stalls out at the top and then comes back down ala a famous shot in the first Tim Burton Batman movie.

[adh56]

Beached Whale: A shot that skips/skims across a water hazard but makes it to land on the other side

Also could use "the shot ran aground"

[Benak56]

The group of youth I typically play rounds with (I'm a youth minister) have made a habit of "disc whispering." Meaning that we will attempt to talk our discs into doing what we want them to. Kind of like the horse whisperer.

Only more ridiculous.

I said this in another thread but talking to your disc is serious business.

It builds self esteem, helps with confidence and improves overall performance by utilizing positive reinforcement.

[RussMB]

The Millennium Falcon is now a permanent fixture in my vocabulary!

Worm Burner: A disc thrown that hits the ground much earlier than anticipated. Cutting through the grass at a high rate of speed. "Dude, Nice Worm Burner"

Here is the results of a Worm Burner I through last weekend. This course has this crap all over. It's like a mulch blanket. My disc literally slid underneath this blanket. I spent 30 minutes looking for my disc, and yelling "How the Hell do you lose a disc in a flat open field?" I played 3 more rounds, on the final round I caught a little glimmer in the mulch blanket! My disc was returned, and there was much rejoicing! :D

http://i126.photobucket.com/albums/p83/russ30/Mobile%20Uploads/0922091408.jpg

[cmcolomb]

LISTEN UP EVERYONE!!! This is the word for disc golf....

Deeg \'dēēj\

Plain and simple. My girlfriend haphazardly invented the term after learning that we referred to it as D.G. so she just blended it together and it has stuck ever since.

Deeg (n.) - the transliteration of the acronym 'D.G.' for disc golf.
John, Sam, and Chris are goin to play some deeg, wanna join?

Deeg (v.) - the action of playing disc golf.
Let's deeg after work - we need beers though.

Use it, spread it, enjoy it!

[RussMB]

Horses come in a herd.

Sheep by the flock.

What do you folks call a group of disc golfers?

A cough, of course. You can usually hear them several holes away. Made that one up myself.

And a throw that hits a tree and falls straight down, dead? That would be a Sonny Bono.

Apologies to Cher or anyone else who finds that tasteless.

Hahaha, That's Cold!!! I feel guilty for laughing so hard!!! :D

[solomon.trenton]

The Millennium Falcon is now a permanent fixture in my vocabulary!

Worm Burner: A disc thrown that hits the ground much earlier than anticipated. Cutting through the grass at a high rate of speed. "Dude, Nice Worm Burner"

Here is the results of a Worm Burner I through last weekend. This course has this crap all over. It's like a mulch blanket. My disc literally slid underneath this blanket. I spent 30 minutes looking for my disc, and yelling "How the Hell do you lose a disc in a flat open field?" I played 3 more rounds, on the final round I caught a little glimmer in the mulch blanket! My disc was returned, and there was much rejoicing! :D

http://i126.photobucket.com/albums/p83/russ30/Mobile%20Uploads/0922091408.jpg

thats nuts!! i had that happen to me in the snow. if i hadnt stepped on my disc i never would have found it.

[RussMB]

thats nuts!! i had that happen to me in the snow. if i hadnt stepped on my disc i never would have found it.

Loosing a disc in the snow would have to suck!!

Dude, the Tide actually comes in and floods the last three holes. It's still playable, just very sloppy. Well... When the Tide comes in, it pushes all the loose grass, mud, whatever else in it's wake, and leaves this mulch blanket across the 7th hole. The course is East Bay Park (http://www.dgcoursereview.com/course.php?id=3360&mode=ci) in Georgetown, SC. I uploaded a picture of what the course looks like when the tide comes in. I actually have to consult a tide chart, before I go play! LOL

[Maverick3324]

My family refers to griplocks as Booger Fingers or Boogie.
When the disc clearly hits chains and doesn't go in we say No Chain Love.

On the topic of talking to your discs. My brother lovingly named his White SS Wizard Gandalf. Every time he goes to putt he says "Gandalf!" like the Hobbits from Lord of the Rings do. It is quite amusing.

[Midnightbiker]

When ever we are playing a wooded course and someone hits a tree with their disc, we call them a lumberjack. When someone hits more than two trees, we call them a "pinball wizard".

[kinenugs]

i say oscar bravo for O.B. shots

[harr0140]

good stuff in here . . . it is fun to hear different locales ideas of good vocab!

[BrotherDave]

woodpecker season When the weather starts getting warm and all the noobs and TDD's start flocking to the course.

Divine Wind. A gust from nowhere that saves your drive from futility.

Baroni'd or gassed When a drive is thrown uncharacteristically short or low, named after MMA fighter Phil Baroni infamous for having bad stamina. Wow, you really Baroni'd that drive Dave

Ninja Style Having to throw while hidden behind foliage, usually a warning to other players: Watch out guys, I'm going ninja style

Kissing chains Whenever your disc barely hits chains and spits out.

[mashnut]

Kissing chains Whenever your disc barely hits chains and spits out.

We call that one tickling the chains. I like ninja style, I might have to steal that one.

[Mattallica]

. I like ninja style, I might have to steal that one.

x 2 that's pretty good

[2DiscDouche]

Wow, long thread.

Anybody mention the "bon jovi"? (wooooah. we're halfway there...)

It has its moments.

[discpicable]

We call a disc you park right beside the basket from the tee a dunkable.

[A.Mutt]

a Walker - When your shot takes a bounce and lands on edge but doesn't so much roll as wobble back and forth, slowly but surely moving forward.

[dreadlock86]

surprised i haven't seen "sit down." command to the disc to stop flying.

[joegraham]

I use "sit down" a lot. It is a ball golf expression when you want the ball to hit and stop on a green. Works for us too!

[Apothecary]

Yarnies:n.People who play disc golf in the snow. Wish they lived in southern california. Name derived from the silly bits of yarn that help them find their discs as they freeze and wish they were in southern california.

Despite wearing 50 layers, the yarnies remained frigid as they searched for their bits of yarn in the snow.

[zud00]

Yarnies:n.People who play disc golf in the snow. Wish they lived in southern california. Name derived from the silly bits of yarn that help them find their discs as they freeze and wish they were in southern california.

Despite wearing 50 layers, the yarnies remained frigid as they searched for their bits of yarn in the snow.

Nice dictionary format!:D

[hogleggbob]

rambo route...opting to thumb through the woods and directly at the basket, rather than throwing back out to the fairway. mostly on dogleg holes

[tomjulio]

got a classic and a new one that is catching on....

In honor of a former touring local pro who occasionally gripped locked his drives badly... "dude just Kovach'ed that drive".

and the new one we came up with last week that is catching on fast locally is when your throw (either intentionally or un-intentionally lands in the MIDDLE of the fairway... "Nice throw there Malcolm"..as in Malcolm in the middle.

[prerube]

Kovached sounds like the old mets announcer that said Kabonged

[100Birds2Squirrels]

When someone in the group hits a branch, I say "Tree Rollins with the block."

[tomjulio]

totally forgot the FUNNIEST one I heard while playing a tourney in Michigan.

dude launches a drive that shanks into the woods. A member in my foursome (known for his off color humor and a lot of non-sense talk) says, "whoah, that totally flew like a Mexican!"

...complete pause. laughter, then I go "what the **** exactly does that mean anyway?" :)

that quote coming from the same guy who calls a low flying drive a "wormFEEDER".

[leppard]

If I here someone hit a tree, we say they are choppin' wood over there.

[Johnny Rokketts]

Some of the more colorfull one's we use are:
1. Yosemite Sam = A player who scores a 6 more than once. AKA "the six shooter".
2. Perched = A disc stuck in a tall tree.
3. Gooseneck(s) = A 2 on a scorecard
4. Hazzard County = A hole(s) known to contain a lot of trees, water, etc.
5. Ripples = A long row of 3's on a scorecard.
6. Day Tripper = Can either be new player(s) on the course or a player who's forced to walk a bit because of an errant throw.
* I've heard a few more, but can't seem to recall any at the moment. Great post though!

[nygfaninva]

we call that the 'box'

We call that 'Jefe' or 'Primero' we use the Spanish for our lingo.

[axl_rose]

"Jail" when stuck behind several trees that are obstructing your view of the basket.

Usage:
"After that bad throw, I am stuck in jail now."

[craftsman]

Workin overtime
when you're workin harder then usual to get par on a hole that's usually a bird or easy par for you.
"damn, I'm workin overtime here"

[Luke]

How about "Barney"? I'd define it as "Fair weather golfers," though more often I think it's a negative connotation to the guys who come out in groups of six--with only six discs among them. Here's the way I would use it:

"Barnies couldn't handle this kinda weather, opting for the more boring weather in SoCal."

ps This "Yarnie" never used yarn to find anything. I did lose one disc in a blizzard, but I shot 1 under 54. That's a good trade-off for a memorable round.

[Olorin]

Updated list

• BOB - Back of the Box. Last to throw
• CFR - Candy Fund Raiser. Special Innova candy plastic discs to raise funds.
• CTP - Closest to the Pole
• DL- Dead Last (sanitized version of DFL)
• FAT - First Available Tree
• HBB - Home Boy Bias. People who inflate their rating of a course only because it’s their home course.
• HBBD - Home Boy Bag Drop - A place to leave your disc bag when you have to a long walk to the tee and will be coming back to the same area after your throw. The home players of a course know this spot and put their bags down, but new players carry their bag to the tee and back.
• LAMs- Long Armed Mutants
• LB - Lucky Bounce. When your disc bounces off a tree in such a way that it helps you.
• MAC - Mid Air Correction. Caused by hitting a tree. It’s usually bad, but sometimes good.
• NPR - No Putt Required
• PDS - Poor Disc Selection
• PGA - Pretty Good Approach
• SED - Seeing Eye Disc. A shot that sneaks its way through the trees in a remarkable way.
• YSA - You’re Still Away

(An aside, I never knew there's a 10,000 character post limit. I can't post the whole list together.)

[Olorin]

• Annie – anhyzer
• Apartied - when everyone in the group gets a par on the hole.
• Beached Whale- A shot that skips/skims across a water hazard but makes it to land on the other side
• Bogey Sandwich - A scorecard that reads: 2 4 4 2 for any four consecutive holes for par the hard way.
• Bowling – Rolling
• Big Fat McNasty - There are numerous uses for this…a stagnant pond, a knotty tree, a gusty wind...
• Black Ace- when your first throw goes in the basket of the wrong hole.
• Cabbage –The undergrowth off the fairway. (same as “shule”, “spinach”)
• carpet bagger - a minor pro player from the north who comes down south to bag in ADV
• Chastity belt -n. the yellow band on top of the Innova basket
• Clank - v. The sickening sound that a putt makes when it hits the yellow chastity belt at the top of an Innova Discatcher doesn't go in. As in "I clanked it"
• Conservation of Greatness - making a horrible throw after a jaw-droppingly absurd throw.
• Coondogging - when your roller hits the trunk of a tree
• Course Maintenance- When you disc breaks off a branch on it's way to the target.
• Death Grip-holding on to the disc too long. (same as “grip lock”)
• Deuce bag- a player who keeps hitting birdies on your card.
• Dinner's ready- when your putt hits the number plate square and it makes that ding sound. (Same as “doink” and “Hit the nickel”)
• Divine Wind- A gust from nowhere that saves your drive from futility.
• Doink – A putt that hits the number plate (same as “Dinner’s ready” and “Hit the nickel”)
• Donkey- when you miss a ridiculously close or easy putt
• Early release program- the opposite of "grip lock"
• Edgie- When the disc dives sharply and sticks into the ground on it’s edge (same as “tombstone”)
• Flapadillo (aka flobble)- When the putter flutters an wobbles really awkward after leaving your hand on the way to the basket.
• Fly-By: putt correct height, poor aim.
• Flyin' Kites- A nose-up drive that goes up up up, stalls and drops to the ground
• Fluke deuce- a lucky two that you got from a fortunate bounce toward the basket.
• Four with a Twist- Taking a circle four, three shots plus an O.B. stroke.
• Frisbee eater - A tree that's always hungry for fresh plastic.
• Gack -vb. miss typically a short putt. As in “I gacked that putt”
• Gettin' Greasy- sneakin through the trees
• Georged - when you fail to “watch out for that tree”
• Gooseneck - a 2 on a scorecard
• Grab Your Snorkel- when someone sends their disc swimming
• Grenade- any shot that is high and fall fast straight down to the ground
• Handful- 5 strokes on a hole.
• Head Banger - when your drive lands under the basket and you might bang you head on the basket as you pick it up.
• "Heeere doggy" followed by everyone whistling like their calling a dog, as your disc rolls right past you away from the basket and back down the hill leaving you a longer shot than you started with.
• Hex'd- When three people in your group score a six on the same hole.
• Hit the nickel - when your putt hits the number plate square and it makes that ding sound. (Same as “Dinner’s ready” and “Doink”)
• Hockey stick- seven throws on one hole.
• Holy Roller - A shot that was not intended to be a roller but turns over and becomes one and heads miraculously straight for the pin!
• Homeboy route- a shot with good results through a narrow opening in trees.
• Horking -adj. a monstrous throw. As in “horking hyzer”.
• "I believe you're away" - said to a friend who hits the tree five feet in front of the tee
• Jekyll and Hyde round – one nine is great and the other nine is a monster.
• Kissing chains (aka “tickling chains”)- Whenever your disc barely hits chains and spits out
• Knife shot - vertical hyzer
• Lawn Dart - a disc that has landed partially buried in the ground, sticking up nearly vertically (same as “edgie”, “tombstone”)
• Lettuce- same as cabbage but thick leafy grass where you have trouble finding you disc
• Lieberman - When a person who normally throws RHBH swithches to LHBH and vice versa
• Locals route: taking a not recommended line that somehow gets you to the basket.
• Lumberjack (n.)- someone who hits a tree with their disc
• Lumberjacking (vb.)- when you’re hitting nothing but trees.
• Major Tom- When someone unintentionally throws really high in the air, as in "Ground Control to Major Tom"
• Makin' Minis: when one disc lands on another (it looks like the discs are humping.)
• Millennium Falcon- on heavily wooded courses with many small-ish trees, when someone throws an overhand/tomahawk and the disc magically weaves between many small trees as it turns over, without hitting any-- just like when said spaceship is flying through the asteroid field in "The Empire Strikes Back".
• Mirkwood forest- that place in the woods where, if you throw there, you can never get your disc back.
• Mullet-n.- A pro that doesn’t cash, so he pays his entry fees to others. It refers to being in the "feeder pool" or being "bait fish". Synonyms: donor, sucker, shark bait. As in “Don't be a mullet!”
• To “nice” someone – v. As in “You niced me". An apparently nice shot that everyone comments on...NICE SHOT...while it’s still in flight. But then suddenly hits something no one expected.
• Nickel – getting 5 on a hole
• Ninja Style- Having to throw while hidden behind foliage, usually a warning to other players. ex- “Watch out guys, I'm going ninja style”
• Noodle arm - Player with no "D”.
• Nuclear shule – extremely bad rough.
• Pachinko, Pin Ball - when your disc pinballs off multiple trees
• Paper plate (n) 1. an extremely understable disc; 2. commonly a lighter weight, beat-up disc
• Parking permit- You tell someone they just got their parking permit validated when they park the disc under the basket after a long shot.
• Pig-Putt –n. a putt that's weak! weak! weak! (best results when spoken with an inhale).
• Pinball – a shot that hits several trees.
• Pinball Wizard – when a shot goes bouncing from tree to tree and still ends up with a decent lie
• Pinvisible- when you can’t see the basket from the tee
• Plunker- when you throw your non floating disc in the water and you hear it go "plunk"
• Pringled - when you smack the disc hard into a tree (synonym- taco)
• Rambo route- opting to thumb through the woods and directly at the basket, rather than throwing back out to the fairway.
• Ripples - a long row of 3's on a scorecard.
• Rooted - when the tree root stops your skip shot
• Sally/(sallied) v. - when your drive/putt comes up way short
• Satellite parking- when you park your drive under the wrong basket
• Saturn - a score of 6 (6th planet) with "rings" (OB circle(s))
• Secret Squirrel- a shot that SOMEHOW goes through the biggest bunch of shule and emerges on the same line it entered and ends up parked!
• Seeing eye disc- a shot that miraculously makes it through a thick set of trees.
• Shank- any shot that does not do what you wanted.
• Skeeter- forehand shot with the "thumber grip" thrown flat on the ground for a nice bounce around trees
• Shule - heavy undergrowth off the fairway (same as “cabbage”, “spinach”).
• Sit or “sit down”- a command to the disc to stop flying. Taken from a traditional golf expression when you want the ball to hit and stop on a green.
• Skittle (also skibble). The action of a disc grinding a long way on the dirt/ground on the way to the pin. Usually shouted as a command for the disc to travel farther on the ground (for example, "Skittle!”)
• Sky Rockets in Flight- your drive goes up up up and dies out because you got your nose too high on release
• Skywalkered- You used the force to sink that putt
• Sneak- in flight instruction to the disc to avoid anything with leaves and/or bark
• Snob – a throw with the nose of the disc up
• Snowman - a natural score of 8
• Snowangel - a score of 8 with a "halo" (OB circle(s))
• Spinach – bushes, trees, and undergrowth. As in "That's in the spinach." (same as “cabbage”, “shule”).
• Sploot- the sound of a disc going into the water, usually way way out in the water.
• Squirrel killer - a roller shot that runs up the trunk of a tree (same as “coondogging”).
• Taco - vb. To smash a disc into a tree so that it folds like a taco. A saying that goes with this is “Need some sauce for that taco?”
• Tarzan Golf- throwing from tree to tree to tree
• “That wasn't there last time I played this hole" and "Was that there when I teed off?"- said when hitting some long time obvious obstacle like a tree off the tee.
• Tombstone- a disc that impales the ground, and remains standing on edge, usually stuck in the wet ground/mud a few inches. (same as “Edgie”, “Lawn dart”)
• Tournament Roll - When your disc hits the basket and rolls farther away than your original shot
• Treeflection - the tree gives good kick
• Treejection - the tree gives bad kick
• Treejectory - when your redirected by the branch
• Tree-mendous - when your errant shot finds wood and bounces in an auspicious way
• Tree-nied- when your disc hits a tree and drops
• Valet service - When you park your drive under the basket
• Way of the Indian--- a tomahawk that is so beautiful that it makes you pee a little
• Wedgie - a disc that sticks in the side of the basket.
• Worm burner- a drive thrown way too low that skips down the fairway

Phrases
• "That would've been in if it wasn't for that tree." Especially appropriate when the tree is 10 feet from the tee box.

[podunk pete]

A "BroD" move: when you continually play horribly and you decide that it would be in the best interest of the sport to just leave your discs at the course and never show your face again

A "Peabody": a drive that doesn't go further than 50 ft

A "Pink Elephant" : the sassy gay nerd on the course who contiually lets groups play through so he can solicit them

[superberry]

Shanky - shanking a drive due to early release
Yanky - yanking a drive due to late release
Limpy - falling short on a putt
"You niced me" - hitting a tree the moment someone says "nice drive"
Cooler BOB - he at the bottom of box carries the cooler, but if he ties someone on the hole he can switch carrying repsonsibilty to the person before him.

[sidewinding]

Played with a local legend last night and I love the new term that I learned from him and will be sure to use it in each round I play from now on. He would say "I'm about to make this thing (the basket) bleed". At one point someone was talking about how technical a hole was and he said "If I can see it I can make it bleed". My wife did not appreciate it as much as I did. Must be a man hunter thing.

[Essington]

One term we use quite a bit is "On Safari". When you are obviously away, but your disc is lost in the shule (sage brush, aspens, and prickly a** rose hip bushes) ... "Go ahead and throw, I'm on Safari here", or shanking a drive off the tee, "I'll be going on safari to find that one"

[Essington]

• BOB - Back of the Box. Last to throw

We call that one "Beer Bitch" since the worst (highest) score on a hole gets to carry the cooler for the duration of the next hole.

[Caldwell5161]

Don't know if these have been mentioned yet but:

Treenied - Denied by a Tree
Rosswell - When the disc gets stuck in the ground like a UFO

[JTacoma03]

So I was playing out here in SF a few months ago on a hole where the optimal line is a teebird shot ("straight with predictable fade at the end") to get into putting range. So a guy tees off and his drive is looking like it's going to fade too soon into some trees so he yells "GET LEGS, c'mon GET LEGS".

One of the funniest things I've ever heard in a round, and I started using it from that point on. So:

Get Legs: when a shot needs to "stay up" or "stretch" just a bit further before fading, usually to avoid hitting a tree.

[Brall]

Cubby Ace - An ace you want noticed but you wouldn't count as a real ace.
Ex: emptying your bag at a hole

http://www.dgcoursereview.com/forums/showthread.php?t=7467

http://www.dgcoursereview.com/forums/showthread.php?p=11324#post11324

if this was posted before in this thread, my appologies

[AJ_86]

"He's a lumberjack and he's okay..." Sung when someone hits a tree every throw.
"Extra seasoning." More than three tree hits on a throw.
"Hibernating." When a disk hides under leaves.
"Ten points." Anyone walking across the fairway, oblivious to the fact that they are on the course.
"Mister Sulu... Warp Factor Fail!" A full speed throw into a tree ten feet in front of you.

[AJ_86]

Forgot one...

"Zoom Climb" for when a disk decides to try and set an altitude record.

[weeman]

Dunno if its been posted yet but there's the worst three words in disc golf, "You're still out."

[hyzerburn]

Didn't read all the replies but I like to use Chain Tickler when your putt or drive barely taps a link or two.

[hyzerburn]

Don't know if these have been mentioned yet but:

Treenied - Denied by a Tree


Treenied is a good one. I'll throw out a "Shaq Diesel'd" or an "Olajuwon'd" when a branch knocks it down and has that swatting motion afterwards.

[JTacoma03]

Treenied is a good one. I'll throw out a "Shaq Diesel'd" or an "Olajuwon'd" when a branch knocks it down and has that swatting motion afterwards.

I just do the dikembe motion without saying anything.

[deBebbler]

After reading this whole post, I didn't see Scooby anywhere.

[lokirising]

Ninja star: When a disc lands in the mud and sticks out sideways.

[agent_peebody]

double post :wall:

[agent_peebody]

Ninja star: When a disc lands in the mud and sticks out sideways.

interesting. for as much as that happens, i've never heard an official term for it. i'd use "ninja star", i kinda like it.

Stratosphere: the act of throwing so nose up that the disc climbs over the trees and hyzer stalls out

[lokirising]

interesting. for as much as that happens, i've never heard an official term for it. i'd use "ninja star", i kinda like it.

Stratosphere: the act of throwing so nose up that the disc climbs over the trees and hyzer stalls out

Then you and I must spread the word!!!!

:hfive:

[solomon.trenton]

Treenied is a good one. I'll throw out a "Shaq Diesel'd" or an "Olajuwon'd" when a branch knocks it down and has that swatting motion afterwards.

i like the dieseled one. everyone knows who the diesel is

[Zeke I]

Hellhole = a deep gully with a river in it.

[ArcheType]

Ninja star: When a disc lands in the mud and sticks out sideways.

funny, out here this is called "Tombstone'd"

[BrotherDave]

funny, out here this is called "Tombstone'd"

Same here.

[craftsman]

People call em lawn darts round here

[ArcheType]

I actually think I like lawn darts more, I may steal that

[tstack10]

Played with a local legend last night and I love the new term that I learned from him and will be sure to use it in each round I play from now on. He would say "I'm about to make this thing (the basket) bleed". At one point someone was talking about how technical a hole was and he said "If I can see it I can make it bleed". My wife did not appreciate it as much as I did. Must be a man hunter thing.

If it bleeds we can kill it!!

[bbails]

I played with some old regulars at De La. They would say, "Who's on the cooler?"

They explained that they often bring a cooler of beers along, and whoever got the worst score on the last hole has to carry the cooler for the next one. We didn't even have beers that day, and they'd say, "Okay, who's the cooler?"

Trouble with our regular cooler guy is he likes being in close proximity to the beers, so no incentive for him to throw better.

[kyflash]

After carding an 8 you can say you got dog balls, or a snow man.

[jcf5083]

Where's "good wood"?

[g1nked]

A friend of mine calls the rough " the salad" so whenever the other one goes in we always ask "would you like a little basalmic vinagrette with that?

[harr0140]

A friend of mine calls the rough " the salad" so whenever the other one goes in we always ask "would you like a little basalmic vinagrette with that?

Oh thats a new one!

You could also say "would you like some corned beef to go with your cabbage?"

[lokirising]

Ninja star: When a disc lands in the ground sideways and stays stuck there.

[drickanderson]

I always say that a disc is 'on fire' when it was thrown so high, that it'll burn up coming back into the atmosphere ...

[mashnut]

Ninja star: When a disc lands in the ground sideways and stays stuck there.

We call that a tombstone.

[harr0140]

We call that a tombstone.

Go to bed, we all have expectations for you to hit 325 courses in 2011. You aren't going to accomplish that if you are up on DGCR with the flu!

[mashnut]

Hah, I've been sleeping on and off all day between trips to the bathroom. I'm actually feeling better now, though I lost 8 lbs between yesterday afternoon and tonight...:gross:

[AJ_86]

"Making the mando": Two trees dead ahead of the tee, with enough room for your disc to get through with half an inch to spare... and instead of throwing around them like every sane person... you put that sucked dead ahead and shoot the gap.

There's one guy I play with who loves to use that phrase. What makes it even more amusing is that he says it on a course with no Mandos, so we all crack up at it, as he starts making them up.

[phoneboy]

Great thread :thmbup:

Cake topper: when your disc lands on top of the basket

[phoneboy]

Camping: Deep in the woods

Twilight zone: you watch the flight. Walk to where you saw it drop and its nowhere fo be found. Also known as bermuda triangle

Jewkin: twisting n turning you body as if you can alter the flight path( spelling courtesy of hookt on phonix)

[cfair]

Hah, I've been sleeping on and off all day between trips to the bathroom. I'm actually feeling better now, though I lost 8 lbs between yesterday afternoon and tonight...:gross:

8lbs. must have been vomit and diarrhea... oh to evacuate both holes...

[BELLYRUBS]

Colette - keeping the disc down.

i.e the disc going way too high in the air and fading hard "you need a little more Colette on that throw"
or the disc hitting the ground quickly and wormburning or stopping "had a little too much Colette on that one"

origin is Dj Colette's record 'keep it down'
http://c3.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/112/l_97eaaaaddcc2e95e73bcfb55b558d9ae.jpg

[bazillion]

Local route - When you shank your drive and the disc caroms off 47 trees, rocks, bushes, etc. - either that or avoids 47 trees, rocks, bushes, etc. - and winds up parked.

[MrFixIt]

Local route - When you shank your drive and the disc caroms off 47 trees, rocks, bushes, etc. - either that or avoids 47 trees, rocks, bushes, etc. - and winds up parked.

I get told that alot! I must be one lucky muther*shut yomouth*

[Longliveguitar]

Frogger putt...or jump putt

[KNole]

womp-when the disc nails the tree dead on

[drickanderson]

Four-letter 'T' word ...

Saying the word 'tree' in our group will get you drawn and quartered. They're 'large wooden plants'. The minute somebody utters the four-letter 'T' word, we all start throwing into them. If you were the one that said it, you get blamed for every bad shot from then on.

[gcr_russell]

Never talk about the wind. When it dies down it is waiting for the first group member to conjure it back to life.

[SirRaph]

We call overstable discs "hot".

[LeewayeDiscGolf]

All Valkyries are 'Valks'.

[lokirising]

Pinballing: When a disc bounces of multiple tree when thrown.

[glustic]

Michael J Fox- a wobbly putt

[chrishysell]

No one has even mentioned any of the more derogatory remarks those of us who have played pro for years use.

[chrishysell]

Okay kids, i'll start it off. Don't say you guys don't do the same thing at tournaments when you're signing up.

All of these mean the same thing, usually that person who you can easily beat that really shouldn't be playing in your division.

Type O or Universal Donor
Easy Money
Added Cash
Ulyses or Grant or Walking 50
Bottom Feeder