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| 180s | Hit the triple 20 3 times with one shot = 180 points |
| 25s | Is the small green ring around the bulls eye, also known as a single or half bull |
| 170 | The highest possible darts finish |
| 301 | Game mode in which the game is played from 301 down |
| 501 | Game mode in which the game is played from 501 down |
| 9-Darter | The perfect game of darts where you finish a leg of 501 points with 9 throws. |
| 5 most popular double fields | Bullseye, D20, D18, D16, D10 |
| 6 numbers with only one checkout way | 2, 3, 153, 156, 167, 170 |
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| Drop line | The mark on the dart from which the dart is thrown, also called the "oche". It may not be crossed and if a dart lands on the ground beyond the drop line when thrown, the dart counts as thrown if there was an intention to throw. |
| Alexandra Palace | Current venue of the annual PDC World Darts Championship in London also called "Ally Pally". |
| American Darts | Variant in e-dart where there is only one bull (in the size of Bulls-Eye and Single Bull together), which counts 50 points. |
| Anderson, Gary | Scottish professional darts player |
| Anderson, Kyle | Australian professional darts player |
| Annie's Room | The name for the "Single 1" field |
| Around the Clock | Game mode in which you play the dartboard once clockwise or in the order of the numbers |
| Arrows | Other word for english darts |
| Collecting ring | Outer black ring, is there to catch misses |
| Recording | Throwing three darts in a row |
| Bull out | In the bulls out game, you determine who starts the game. Both players throw once at the bulls-eye, whoever is closer starts the game. |
| Check out | Finish a game with 0 points |
| Exterior Bull | Other word for half bull or single bull |
| Exhibition game | Exhibition, where dart players show off their game to the public in a relaxed atmosphere. |
| Average | Average score in darts |
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| Babyton | Shot with fivefold meeting of the 19 also called mini barrel |
| Baby tops | Double 3 |
| Bag of nuts | Designation for a throw of 45 points |
| Barney | Nickname of Raymond van Barneveld |
| Barrel | Dart handle piece |
| Basement | Other name for double 3 |
| BDO | Official acronym of the British Darts Organization |
| Beaton, Steve | English professional darts player |
| Bed | Designation of a field (whether double or triple) on the dartboard |
| Bed and Breakfast | A shot with 26 points where you hit 1x 1, 1x 5 and 1x 20. Also called washing machine, chips or Murphy |
| Best of Three | Game mode in which you win with min. 2 won sets |
| Best of Five | Game mode in which you win with min. 3 won sets |
| Best performance | Extraordinary performances in so-called short games, high finishes and high scores are counted as best performances |
| Big | Designation of the large single field between triple and double field |
| Big 6 | Training game similar to the game of dominoes |
| Blind killer | Novel variation of the classic dart "Killer". |
| Block | In a double game with teams, the own partner has more points than both opponents together and thus blocks the own team, as he is not allowed to check |
| Board | Dartboard also called dartboard in engl. |
| Bogey numbers | Numbers that cannot be checked: 169, 168, 166, 165, 163, 162, 159 |
| Bouncer | Term for the bouncing of a dart off the board. |
| Break | A break is when you win a leg against the break. The opponent has started the leg, but you have won. |
| Breakfast | Means three rolls of 1 x 1 + 1 x 20 + 1 x 5 equal 26 points, in German: Frühstück |
| Bristleboard | A dartboard pressed from sisal fibers |
| Bucket of nails | Three throws into the field of the "Simple 1". |
| Buckshot | Designation of a scatter throw where three darts land unaimed in different fields of the dartboard. |
| Stage play | Game where the dart players play on a podium in front of the fans |
| Bull / Half-Bull | The small green ring in the middle of the dartboard, also called single-bull which counts 25 points |
| Bulls | Another word for bull out, where a throw to the bulls eye is used to decide who starts the game |
| Bull finish/bullout | Occurs when a leg is finished with a throw into the bulls eye |
| Bullseye | Red ring in the middle of the dartboard, which counts 50 points |
| Bullshooter | Variant of the American e-dart where the triple and double fields are twice as large as in the classic European e-darts. |
| Bully Boy | Nickname of Michael Smith |
| Bunting, Stephen | English professional darts player |
| Bust | English name for throwing over when checking out |
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| Caller | Referee and score caller at professional dart tournaments |
| Case | Storage box of darts and accessories |
| Catchring | Outer black ring, is there to catch misses |
| Chalker | Scribe documenting the points thrown on a board |
| Championship | Darts Championship |
| Check | Finish a round mostly on double field |
| Checkout | last throw that ends a round |
| Checkout rate | Quota that determines how long it takes to check out |
| Chips | for a litter of 26 points consisting of 1 x 1 + 1 x 20 + 1 x 5 |
| Chisnall, Dave | English dart player |
| Chizzy | Nickname of Dave Chisnall |
| Chuck à Allan Norris | Nickname of Allan Norris |
| Chucker | A player who throws without aiming at the target |
| Circle it | Announcement to mark the achieved value on the board |
| Clock | All numbers on the dartboard clockwise starting from 20 |
| Clock Pattern | Meant the circular arrangement of the segments, not the sequence of the segments |
| Collar | Metal "collar" on the shaft to fix the flight, also called "crown". |
| Competition | Darts competition |
| Cork | In the past barrel bottoms were used as dartboards, the cork in the middle was the bulls eye |
| Cricket | A game where the player has to hit fixed squares in any order. |
| Cross, Rob | English dart player |
| Cullen, Joe | English dart player |
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| Women's triple | Triple right and left of twenty: triple 12 and triple 18 |
| Darts / Dart | Dart |
| Darts | Precision sport where you have to hit certain segments of a target with arrows |
| Dartboard | Dartboard |
| DDV | German Darts Association |
| Diddle for Middle | For the decision who will start playing on the bull to be decided |
| Double | Two players throw as a team, team game |
| Double KO | A tournament mode where you can lose twice and just keep playing after the first loss. |
| Double | The outer "double ring" of the board, numerical values are doubled |
| Double-IN | Open their legs with a hit on a double segment |
| Double-Out | Legs can only be completed with a hit on a double segment |
| Double Trouble | Uncertainty with a double field when checking |
| Downstairs | Lower half of the dartboard |
| DRA | Darts Regulation Authority |
| Dress code | Clothes Rules certain clothes that you can and can not wear |
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| Easy-In | A game variant where there is no prescribed opening roll |
| E-Dart | Darts on an electronic dartboard, also called softdart |
| Simply | Fields of which two exist and have single point counting. The small inner single field "little" and the large outer one in front of the double ring "Big". |
| Insertion board | A training board at tournaments so that players can warm up |
| Single | Players compete against each other individually, otherwise two players always compete in each team "doubles". |
| Elimination | Is a training game, it is about kicking out the other opponent |
| Equalboard | Each player throws an equal number of darts and a winner is determined from the results |
| Exhibition | For darts professionals, show types for fans and followers, mostly casual level |
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| Snap ring | Outer black ring, is there to catch misses |
| Feathers | Feather flight, because turkey feathers were used as flight stabilizers in the past |
| Feeler | Test throw into the black |
| Error | Hits outside the scoring area |
| Field | A single bed or segment of the board |
| Finish | Last throws with three arrows to finish the leg |
| First to X | The player who could win X Legs first wins the game |
| Fly | Other name for Flight, flight stabilizer of the dart made of plastic. |
| Flight | B124 plastic dart flight stabilizer |
| Frozen | Not being able to check out by partner in double play because he has more remaining points than both opponents together |
| Breakfast | 1 x 1 + 1 x 20 + 1 x 5 = 26 points, also called breakfast |
| Fox hunting | Training game |
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| Game | Game |
| Game On | Release of the board for darting by referee |
| Gameshot | Last dart of a game |
| Good Darts | Typical dart greeting |
| Gurney, Daryl | Northern Ireland dart player |
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| Halve it | A training game called bisect |
| Hard luck | In the event of a very close miss by the opponent, a commiseration "just missed". |
| Hard on the wire | Very narrowly hit his desired segment "hair's breadth". |
| Hat trick | 1. a throw with 3 Bulls hits 2. if a player wins the same tournament three times |
| Henderson, John | Scottish dart player |
| Highlander | Nickname of John Henderson |
| High Finish | A finish of a high score |
| High Score | Highest score with 3 darts, maximum score is 180 |
| Highest Out | The finishing throw with the highest points |
| Field hockey | If the ground marking of the drop line is |
| Home | Designation for the smallest possible check |
| Hopp, Max | German dart player |
| Huybrechts, Kim | Begian dart player |
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| Inner Bull | Red disc center, 50 points |
| Iceland | Numbers and scoring range of the dartboard |
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| Jackpot | Adrian Lewis nickname |
| Joker | A miss where you still got a good score |
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| Cheese box | Game for training for two players, similar to "Tic Tac Toe". |
| Kappa Joe | Scatter around the twenty: 1 x 20, 1 x 5, 1 x 1 = 26 points |
| Break | Achieve too high a score when checking |
| Killer | Training game |
| King, Mervyn | English dart player |
| Classes, Jelle | Dutch dart player |
| KO system | Tournament mode, where the loser is always eliminated from the tournament |
| Coronet | Other name for "crowns |
| Crowns | Plastic or matall caps to protect the flights from damage |
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| Licorice | Hit the black, no score |
| League | Is a team mode that denotes doubles play, i.e. players with partners |
| Leg | one set of a match, a match has at least three sets |
| Lewis, Adrian | English dart player |
| Lewis, Jamie | English dart player |
| Little | Small segment with single point value between double ring and bull |
| Lolly/Lollipop | Hit the easy 1 three times in a row with three darts |
| Londenboard | Designation of the type of segment division of the usual dartboard. |
| Losers Dart | It will not be decided who will start the next leg but the loser will start the next leg. |
| Lucky | Lucky |
| Lucky Lander | High hit that was by chance |
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| Mad House / My-Home | "Crazy house" mint is the double one |
| Major tournament | Big dart tournament that is also broadcast on TV |
| Master IN | player opening by a full bull, double, or triple throw |
| Master Out | Prescribed check variant with full bull, double or triple. |
| Master of Ceremony | Presenter of a stage show (Exhibition) |
| Match | A game consisting of 3 to 5 legs |
| Maximiser | Nickname of Max Hopp |
| Mickey Mouse | A game of darts, also known as tactics or cricket |
| Mighty Mike | Nickname of Micheal Van Gerwen |
| Mixed doubles | A doubles game where the partners are female and male respectively |
| Garbage can | Hit the five with three darts |
| Münch, Kevin | German dart player |
| Murphy | Scatter around 20 with three darts, scoring 26 points: 1x 1 + 1 x 5 + 1 x 20 |
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| Neundarter | Finish a Leg 501 with only 9 darts |
| No-Score | Fail to score because overthrown or no score worthy of scoring was achieved |
| Nought | Thrown outside the scoring area and got 0 points |
| Norris, Alan | English dart player |
| Nickname | Nickname |
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| Oche | Drop line |
| Open | An open tournament where really everyone can participate |
| Open-In | A game can be opened freely without a fixed rule how it must be opened |
| Open-Out | There is no minimum finish by e.g. double or master |
| O-ring | Is a rubber ring that is placed between the shaft and the barrel, so that they do not turn loose again by themselves. |
| Out | The last throw that decides the game |
| Outer Ball | Outer ring around bulls eye, counts 25 points |
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| PDC | Professional Darts Corporation, Association |
| PDC Europe | Part of the PDC, mostly organizer of tournaments in Germany |
| Perfect Game | Called neundarter, try to finish a set with as few throws as possible |
| Price, Gerwyn | Welsh dart player |
| Pizza | Score zero points with three darts, i.e. one throw |
| Point | The tip of a dart |
| Pointsharpener | Auxiliaries for grinding tips |
| Popcorn | When two darts land so close together that one flight bounces off |
| Professional | Darters who do this professionally and are very good |
| Protectors | Plastic or aluminum crowns that are put on the flights to protect them |
| Fishing points | Flying, with respectably high points |
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| Quadro | a 4-counting segment of the dartboard |
| Quadro Board | Dartboard with a 3 segment, which brings four times the score |
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| Ranking list | There are players in there and the best are at the top and the worst at the bottom |
| Ranking tournament | At darts events it gives players the opportunity to improve their position on the list |
| Rasta | Determined colored dartboard |
| Residual score | The remaining points until the check, so end |
| Right Church | Wrong triple or double hit |
| Wrong Pew | Wrong triple or double hit |
| Right House | Correct number hit but wrong segment (single 16 instead of double 16) |
| Wrong Bed | Correct number hit but wrong segment (single 16 instead of double 16) |
| Robin Hood | when you throw one dart into another and it gets stuck in the flight |
| Rockstar | Nicknames of Joe Cullen |
| Round Robin | Training and tournament variant everyone against everyone |
| Round the clock | Play number by number along the complete dartboard, also training game |
| Round | Belongs to a set, there are three throws in a set |
| Runner-Up | The player who takes the 2nd place, vice champion |
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| Set | A single run of a game down to zero, three to five sets form is game |
| Shank | The part between Flight and Barrel |
| Shaft rubber | An O-ring that prevents the barrel and stem from loosening |
| Schindler, Martin | German dart player |
| Scottish ton | Three darts all landing in the deuce box and one dart hitting the triple one in the process |
| Recorder | Mostly the referee, too, serves to write down the points. |
| Score | Score |
| Scoreboard | Board on which the score is written |
| Scoring Officials | Recorder of a batch |
| Segement | A field in the scoring area of the dartboard, are mostly the small colored units |
| Set | A set, also called a leg. One game consists of three sets usually |
| Shaft | Shank |
| Shanghai | Hit the triple, double and single with three darts each |
| Shanghai Finish | Hit the triple, double and single with three darts each while checking, highest shanghai finish is 120 |
| Short Game | "a short game" it is about finishing the game with as few throws as possible |
| Short Leg | A set that has already been checked with unusually few darts |
| Short tone | in roll where all three darts hit only fives |
| Shot Out | A player could not open his game before his competitor checked out |
| Single | A segment with a simple score |
| Single Bull | The small green ring around Bulls Eye, counts 25 points |
| Single In | Game where it is not prescribed how to open the game |
| Single Out | Game where it is not prescribed how the finish should be |
| Skunked | Shot out, if he can not open his game before his opponent has put it out |
| Slop | "Verflieger" one gets but still a high score |
| Snakebite | Nickname of Peter Wright |
| Smith, Michael | English dart player |
| Softdart | Darts with plastic tips, E-Dart or Electronik Darts |
| Soft tip | Plastic tips for electronic dartboards |
| Speed Darts | Dart variant of American Darts, you have to play against the time |
| Spider | The wire mesh that marks the individual segments |
| Game | A game consists of predefined number of sets |
| Spider | The partition grids at a dartboard |
| Spin Top | Shaft tip that can be rotated to create space for close set hits |
| Splash | Hit you hit by chance |
| Split Score | Darts game also known as "Have it" |
| Spotter | TV staff announcing the paths of the dart players so that the TV cameras can follow behind them |
| Stand bar | Drop line to prevent trespassing, mandatory at tournaments and otherwise voluntary |
| Stage Manager | Regulates the stage to the second |
| Steady | The darts hit close together on the board |
| Steeldart | Classic darts with steel tips |
| Straight In | Game in which you do not have a prescribed opening throw, in the lower soft dart classes. |
| Straight Out | Game without fixed finishing throw, in the lower softdart classes. |
| Sudden Death | In case of a tie in a league match, this match will be played and whoever wins this match is the winner. |
| Super Chin | Nickname of Daryl Gurney |
| Suljovic, Mensur | Austrian dart player |
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| Tactics | A game of darts also known as cricket or Mickey Mouse |
| Taylor, Phil | Former English dart player |
| Team | Team |
| Team captain | Team captain |
| The Bronzed Adonis | Steve Beaton nickname |
| The Bullet | Nickname of Michael Smith |
| The Cobra | Nickname of Jelle Klaasen |
| The Dragon | Nickname of Kevin Münch |
| The Dreammaker | Nickname of Dimitri Van Den Bergh |
| The Dutch Destroyer | Nickname of Vincent Van Der Voort |
| The Flying Scotsman | Gary Anderson nickname |
| The Gentle | Nickname of Mensur Suljovic |
| The Hurricane | Nickname of Kim Huybrechts |
| The King | Nickname of Mervyn King |
| The Iceman | Nickname of Gerwyn Price |
| The Machine | Nickname of James Wade |
| The Original | Nickname of Kyle Anderson |
| The Thorn | Nickname of Robert Thornton |
| The Wall | Nickname of Martin Schindler |
| The Wizard | Nickname of Simon Whitlock |
| Thornton, Robert | English dart player |
| Three in a Bed | Three darts in one segment |
| Throw | The litter |
| Tic Tac Toe | Darts training game |
| Tip | Tip from dart, steel tips/plastic tips |
| Sound | 100 points with 3 darts |
| Tone of Ones | Instead of hitting the right segments for 100 points miss and only make 5 points |
| Sound machine | A darter who always safely throws 100 points with three darts |
| Ton | 100 points with 3 darts |
| Top | Protection for the ends of the flies, "protection crown". |
| Tops | Field of double twenty, very popular |
| Topgungs | Top players who have won at least 2x major tournaments, 2x each in a major final and semifinal, and 10 Pro Tour wins |
| Tournament Director | Sporting director of a PDC event |
| Treple | Narrow inner ring on the board is scored three times |
| Treple In | Open the game with a triple |
| Treple Out | A leg can only be checked with a triple |
| Triple | Triple field hit |
| Tungsten | Tungsten Material of Dart Barrel |
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| Overthrow | More points thrown than needed to zero, the finish must be repeated |
| Clock | Point segments on the dartboard, starting at one and going from left to right until 20 |
| Umpire | Referee |
| Unlucky | A throw hit very close to the target |
| Upstairs | Upper half of board |
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| Van Barneveld, Raymond | Dutch dart player |
| Van Gerwen, Michael | Dutch dart player |
| Van den Bergh, Dimitri | Dutch dart player |
| Van der Voort, Vincent | Dutch dart player |
| Aviator | A dart that does not land where it should |
| Losers' bracket | In the double-elimination mode, after the first matches the field of participants is divided into a "winner's round" and a "loser's round", in the final both groups of participants run together again |
| Four-team tournament | match variant in which four players per team compete in two doubles and four singles matches |
| Voltage | Nickname of Rob Cross |
| Template | during a leg one scores a high point lead |
| Preliminary round | The first round in the league |
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| Wade, James | English dart player |
| Walk-On | Entering of the dart players on the stage |
| Walk-On Song | The selected song of the player during his walk on |
| Washing machine | To scatter the 20, scoring 26 points with one throw: 1 x 5 + 1 x 20 + 1 x 1 |
| WDF | World Darts Federation - World Darts Federation |
| Valuation area | Whole number range of the dartboard |
| West Hall | A hall in Alexandra Palace |
| White wash | In a whole game do not grant the opponent a leg or set win |
| Whitlock, Simon | Australian dart player |
| Wirtschoner | Just missed the 180 and the host does not have to spend one |
| Wright, Peter | Scottish dart player |
| Litter | Three thrown darts form one throw "shot". |
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| Home | For a finish, the lowest possible score, single one for a single out, double one for a double and master out. |
