Cornhole terms
From Cornhole Wiki
The following is a list of terms commonly used in a cornhole game :
- Air mail swish
- A bag that goes directly in the hole without touching the board.
- Ace cow pie
- A bag lands on the board, which is worth one point.
- Back door
- A cornhole that goes over the top of a blocker and into the hole.
- Backstop
- A bag that lands past the cornhole but remains on the board creating a backboard for a slider to knock into without going off the board.Template:Fact
- Berlin Airlift
- an opponents bags are blocking the hole (in the shape of a wall), leaving the only viable option to airlift the bags into the hole.
- Berlin Wall
- an opponent lines up a couple of bags in front of the hole, thereby making scoring difficult. A historical reference to the Berlin Wall
- Blocker
- An ace that lands in front of the hole, essentially blocking the hole from sliders.
- Cornfusion
- When players or teams cannot agree on the scoring of a given inning.
- Cornhole Drāno
- A bag falls in the hole, which is worth three points. The alternative name is a reference to a trademark, that of a sink clog clearing product.
- Dirty bag
- A bag that is on the ground or is hanging off the board touching the ground.
- Four-bagger
- When a player puts all 4 bags in with no help from his bag or another player.
- Gusher double deuce
- Four cornholes by a single player in a single round.
- Hanger
- An ace on the lip of the hole ready to drop.
- Honors
- The team who tosses first, resulting from the team scoring last.
- Hooker
- A bag hitting the board and hooking or curving around a blocker and going in the hole.
- Jumper
- A bag that strikes another bag on the board causing it to jump up into the cornhole.
- Police
- The cornhole referee.
- Push Bag
- When a bag takes in 2 or more bags of either the throwers bag or the opposing players bags.
- Sally corn patty
- A toss that is thrown too weakly and lands on the ground before reaching the board.
- Shucker
- When a player pitches a bag and it strikes an opposing players bag knocking it off the board.
- Skunk whitewash
- A game that, by some rules, ends in an 11-0 score.
- Slider
- A cornhole that slides into the hole.
Regional Terminology (West Coast; primarily the Bay Area, Seattle and the Central Valley of California from Sacramento to Chico)
- Shortbag
- When a cornbag hits the ground in front of the board.
- Lick Side
- When a right-handed player has to throw from the right side of the board or a left-handed player must throw from the left side of the board.
- Frat House
- When all eight bags are in play on the board.
- Cincinnati Slide
- The act of knocking your own bag into the cornhole by throwing a cornbag hard and without much loft.
- Stiff Bag
- A poorly thrown bag as a result of the pressure of competition.
