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List of Bingo Terminology

Every game has its own lingo and terminology developed with the history the game.  For example, in craps wheny you roll two 1s it’s known as Snake Eyes and two 4s is a Hard Eight; and in poker AA is known as Pocket Rockets and AK is the Big Slick.

However, as far as my experience goes, no other game has as much unique vocabulary or bursting lexicon as bingo.  This isn’t really surprising given the rich history of bingo and propriety of versions across the globe – in the UK alone bingo was once played in the isolated trenches of World War I and Elizabethan times.  It seems new words and terms have cropped up in different periods and I bet they all have interesting stories behind them.  God knows how no.7 became known as “One Fat Lady” or 22 as “Two Little Ducks”.

Of course, there’s no need to learn all of these terms and for most people it’s practically impossible to memorize them anyway.  They won’t become practical when playing online bingo, and I doubt you’ll ever run into someone who uses them.  But, this list of bingo terms is provided none the less and they’ll probably keep changing too!  The majority of these terms are used in the UK 90 ball version

1     Kelly’s Eye / On its Own / At the Beginning / Start the Game / Number one, just begun / Buttered Scone
2     One Little Duck / Baby’s Done It / Me and You / Buckle My Shoe
3     Cup of Tea / One Little Flea / Monkey on the Tree / Dixie Lee / You and Me
4     Knock at the Door / On the Foor
5     Man Alive / Jack’s alive
6     Just a Click / Tom’s Tricks / Tom Mix / Chopsticks
7     Lucky Seven / God’s in Heaven / David Beckham / Hope in Heaven
8     One Fat Lady / The Garden Gate
9     Doctor’s Orders (“Number 9 pill”)
10     Gordon’s Den (forename of current prime minister) / Big Ben / cock and hen / Downing Street
11     Chicken Legs / Legs Eleven
12     One Dozen / Monkey’s Cousin
13     Unlucky for Some / Lucky for Some
14     Valentine’s Day
15     Young and keen / Rugby team
16     Sweet Sixteen / Never been Kissed
17     Dancing Queen / Often been Kissed
18     Coming of Age / Now you can Vote
19     Goodbye Teens
20     One Score / Getting Plenty
21     Key of the Door / Royal Salute
22     Two Little Ducks / all the twos / dinky doo
23     Thee and Me / A Duck and a Flea
24     Two Dozen / Did You Score / Do You Want Some More
26     Half a Crown / Pick and Mix / Bed and Breakfast
27     Gateway to Heaven / Little Duck with a Crotch
28     Overweight / In a State / Duck and it’s Weight
29     You’re Doing Fine / In Your Prime
30     Dirty Gertie / Speed Limit / Your Face is Dirty
31     Get Up and Run
32     Buckle My Shoe
33     Dirty Knee / Gertie Lee / Dirty Flees / Come in For Ya Tea / all the threes / Feathers
34     Ask for More / Dirty Whore
35     Jump and Jive
36     Three Dozen
37     More Than Eleven
38     You’re Late!!/Top Date!
39     All the steps (Novel “The Thirty-Nine Steps”)
40     Naughty Forty / Life Begins At
41     Time for Fun / Life’s Begun
42     Winnie the Pooh / The most famous street in Manhattan
43     Down on your Knees
44     All the Fours / Droopy Drawers / Open Two Doors
45     Halfway There
46     Up to Tricks
47     Four and Seven
48     Four Dozen
49     Copper / Nice and Shine
50     Bulls eye / Blind 50 / Halfway House / Hawaii
51     Tweak of the Thumb
52     Danny La Rue / Chicken Vindaloo / Weeks in a Year
53     Stuck in the Tree / The Joker / Feng Shui
54     Clean the Floor
55     Snakes Alive / All the Fives
56     Was she worth it?
57     Heinz Varieties
58     Make Them Wait
59     Brighton Line
60     Five Dozen / Three Score
61     Baker’s Bun
62     Turn to the Screw
63     Tickle Me
64     Red Raw/ knock on the door/ you’re poor/ cats paw
65     Old Age Pension / Stop Work
66     Clickety-Click / All the sixes
67     Made in Heave
68     Saving Grace
69     Thats Rude / Two can chew
70     Three Score & 10
71     Bang on the Drum
72     In for a Poo
73     Queen B / Crutch and a Flea
74     Candy Store / Grandmama of Bingo
75     Strive & Strive / On the Skive
76     7 and 6 – Was she worth it? / Trombones
77     All the sevens / Seventy plus Seven
78     Heaven’s Gate
79     One More Time / Seventy plus nine
80     Four Score / Ghandi’s Breakfast
81     Stop and Run / Cinnamon Bun
82     Straight on Through / Fat Lady and a Duck
83     Time for Tea / Fat Lady and a Flea
84     Seven Dozen
85     Staying Alive
86     Between the Sticks / Dogs dicks
87     Fat Lady with a Crutch / Fat Lady with a Cane
88     Two Fat Ladies / All the eights
89     All But One
90     Top of the Shop / Top of the House / As Far As We Go / End of the Line