Sling Slang

Assassin: Same as a knock off

Bait and switch: similar to a teaser drop down where a player thinks they have a score on one bar but drop down to another.

Diggler: when sling ball simply hangs from cross bar and is vulnerable to a knock off, also known as a tea bag

Dismount: Same as a teaser

Double wrap: when sling ball wraps around the cross bar twice

Drop down: A teaser that “drops down” to a higher score.

Friendly fire: Same as a suicide

Full Boat: All sling balls from both players score, or are not on the ground.

Gallery: Spectators watching the sling ball match

Goal post: When a player hits the side bars

Hitchhiker: Sling balls that wrap around other sling balls.

Hit-n-run: Same as a knock off

Knock off: player knocks off an opponents sling ball

Knock off upgrade: player knocks off an opponents sling ball but to a higher scoring cross bar.

Tommy Knocker: Both slingballs hit 2 different bars at same time making a loud knocking noise.

Line driver: Slinging slingballs low and fast

Lob toss: Lobbing slingballs high into the air

Mary Lou: a dismount that catches the rear bar

Negation or Negator: Scoring the same score right after your opponent scores
Nutmeg: when sling ball goes through cross bars and hits nothing, also called a pass through or clean

Parachuter: In windy conditions when the sling ball seems to die in the wind and drop for a score like a parachute.

Piledriver: When slingballs dismount hard into the ground, also known as a spike

Reverse Mary Lou: a dismount off the rear bar to a front bar

Schwarzenegger: when a player over tosses the cross bars, too much muscle

Short hop: on some surfaces the sling balls can actually bounce of the ground and still appear to score, no score is rewarded but the slingball stays in play

Sidewinder: when sling ball wraps around side bars

Sling baller: player

Sling Balls: ball and string players use to score

Snap Back: When the sling balls snap back towards the tosser by tossing the sling ball perfectly

Snap back circle: a ten foot in diameter circle in between the two cross bars (approximately eight feet from each cross bar) used to generate a bonus throw (Not used in Tournaments)

Snap back upgrade: same as reverse Mary Lou

Suicide: player knocks off their own sling ball

Suicide upgrade: player knocks off their own sling ball to a higher scoring cross bar

Teaser: Sling ball wraps around several times then dismounts

Three ring circus: Scoring all three sling balls on the same cross bar (no Negations)

Triple dismount: three spin teaser then dismounts

Triple wrap: when sling ball wraps around the cross bar three times, very safe from knock off, also known as shrinkage

Water fall: Sling ball scores on each cross bar (excluding rear cross bar)  Must be clean no Negations