Cricket Glossary of Terms

The following terms are used in cricket:

3 in a Bed - Throwing 3 darts at the same number, in the same area (such as 3 fat singles, or 3 triples or 3 doubles of the same number)
9 Count - Hitting 3 triples (9 marks) of any cricket number
Black Dog - The Double-Bull
Black Eye - The center of the bullseye worth 50 points
Black Hat - Hitting three double-bulls in one throw
Bricked - Not hitting a single mark in a round of cricket, i.e. hitting bricks (nothing)
Bull or Cork - Center of the bull
Bulls Eye - Center of the board, divided with an inner ring which is the double bull and the outer ring which is the single bull
Bull Out - Winning the game with a double-bull
Chubby Darts - Three in a bed
Cork - Middle of the board or bullseye
Cricket - Game in which the object is to hit three each of the 15s, 16s, 17s, 18s, 19s, 20s and bullseyes in any order. The darter who has closed out all the cricket numbers AND has an equal number or, or more points then the opponent, wins the game
Dead-Eye - 3 Double-bulls in one turn
Diddle or Diddle for the Middle - Throw a single dart at the middle of the board to see who goes first to start the game
Dirty Darts - Slang for questionable strategy such as shooting an excessive number of points in cricket
Double - The outer ring of each cricket number, or the double-bull (center most bull) worth 2 marks in cricket
Eights - Slang for the 18s in cricket
Fall Out or Slop - Slang for hitting a scoring dart while aiming for another number
Fat - Large area of a number (between the double and triple ring)
Fives - Slang for the 15s in cricket
Good Group - 3 darts grouped together
Hat Trick - Hitting the bull with all three darts
Mark - A scoring dart, usually in cricket. Hitting a triple would be three marks
Monger - See Point Monger
Nines - Slang for the 19s in cricket
Phat - A poor man's hat trick, when one dart misses and the other two darts close the bullseye by hitting a double and a single in cricket
Poor Man's Triple or PMT - Hitting three singles of the same number
Point Monger - Negative term for shooting excessive points in cricket
Round of Nine or RO9 - Three perfect darts in cricket such as any 3 triples in one round.
Sevens - Slang for 17s in cricket
Shanghai Darts - Deliberate, and often unnecessary, point mongoring in cricket
Single Bull - Outer ring of the bull worth 25 points
Slop - A dart(s) that has scored after missing its intended target such as hitting a triple-18 in cricket when aiming for the triple-20
Tactics - The game of cricket, usually played with the numbers 10 through 20 and the bullseyes
Three in a Bed - Throwing 3 darts at the same number, in the same area (such as 3 fat singles, or 3 triples or 3 doubles of the same number)
Tin Hat - No scoring darts
Triple Ring - The inner ring of the dart board which is worth triple the "fat" number (3 marks with 1 dart)
White Horse - Scoring three virgin (untouched) triples in Cricket. For example, 3 triple-20s would not be a white horse but a triple-20, triple-19 and a triple-18 (three different triples not previously hit) would be a white horse.