Disc Golf Lingo...

[Toby Puttzinski]

I thought it'd be fun to start a thread for people to chime in with their favorite/least favorite/funny or new 'disc golf lingo' or quotes.

A few of my favorites are 'get skinny' and 'skip, roll, stop!' (disc whisperer commands).
I heard a funny story the other day: My friend, Phil, throws a shot that narrowly misses a tree, and someone in his group yells "get skinny!"... Phil stops, turns around and says, "Sure, heckle the fat guy." Phil is an excellent golfer and comedian.

My least favorite include "get off that(tree)", "at least you're in-bounds", and
"I'd prefer that you didn't."


How about some new ways to say 'nice shot'?
Other than good pull, bid, rip, chuck, or toss...:chinscratch:

[DexterHawk]

I like one I heard when I was playing at worlds...

A fella had thrown one towards the woods and he yelled after his disc "GET EYES!"

[Getty]

After any miraculous throw that penetrates through flora that had no business making it through is called "greazy."

After a really nice birdie finds its mark, my Friday group always yells "sausage!"

[Ol' Bob]

Nice.

[cefire]

Yup, "get greasy!" and "hit a house" are a few I've heard from the carolina gents

[jaggarrett]

When someone throws a great shot I like to call it "moist"

[olydiscgolf]

"Hit Something"

[olydiscgolf]

"long way wrong way"

[REDFIVE]

If I'm headed toward some trees or shrubbery my go to lately has been, "find a way".

[Iowa]

If my disc is going to fly way past a hole I will yell "DIE DOWN" or "DROP!"

[Rideout]

When my disc is released wrong, I often yell, "do something cool" or "you cheap whore".

[KG_MCDGC]

"That's what she said" I say it till it's well beyond annoying, sorry!


When thrown too low, saying "that was too high." And when thrown too high, saying "that was too low." Never gets old.

[NWDiscer]

"find a window"

[motherhucker]

"Course correction" - when a disc is heading the wrong direction, hits a tree and goes in the right direction.

See also "Tree Love"

[mazza]

as soon as some one show any temperment...its called "pullin a mazza"

also theres the "duck or bleed" when u shank one.

or when u hit a tree that was no where near ur line or u didn't even see..."OMFG...i swear that tree jumped in the way"

[DiscnRN]

(The skinny branch that you can't see until it slaps your disc down or deflects your shot) "LeBron !"

[Snooskie Longhorn]

Toby once told me "I've seen better throws on couches" and "I've seen better arms on chairs" when I weak-armed my shots.

I've used the following:

"Not enough postage on that one"

"I've seen more mustard on a hot dog"

"You couldn't flip a burger"

"Next time take your disc out of the bag before you throw"

"Tank Slapper U.S.A." to the tune of "Sleep Country U.S.A", a reference to your putt coming in low and hitting the side of the cage

...and the Frank Lewis special, "You tried to throw in the towell...and missed!"

[Denny]

I heard a funny story the other day: My friend, Phil, throws a shot that narrowly misses a tree, and someone in his group yells "get skinny!"... Phil :

:rockon: Hence Team Skinny :rockon:

[Skookum]

"That all I'm trying to say." pretending we just had a discussion about a nearly impossible alternate route that I just took on purpose to show you how easy it is, ricochets off trees an all
"I really need to practice those." after a missed straddle putt
"Killed it" unintentional turnovers
"That worked better in my head." every roller I've ever thrown
"I f*&%$*& hate this game!" drives that slip out early and head straight for OB, water, or the abyss

and my personal favorite the primal scream... and I get a lot of opportunities to use it.

god I love this game...

[Parks]

Shot from the nasty crap into more of it: "Back to schule special."

[D-Walk]

On of my personal favorites is the White Castle. For those sliders that float sideways as they go.

[Ol' Bob]

"Not enough postage on that one"

Gotta remember that one!

[wilt]

when you flip a disc bad,

"Baby come back, you can blame it all on me
I was wrong, and I just can't live without you......"

sung to the tune of "Baby come back", most of you youngsters won't get this one so:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hn-enjcgV1o

[TreeLove]

Hitting tree after tree: "Linkin' Logs"

[Scott]

Played with a guy today that kept saying (after a particularly mediocre throw), "I'll take it". I felt like saying, "Of course you'll take it - it's your lie!"
:laughing:

[Iowa]

When I hit a tree I say "well ya see I was trying to play off the tree.....".

[motherhucker]

Hitting tree after tree: "Linkin' Logs"

Hitting two or more trees on the same drive: Pinball or Bitch Slap

Hitting the same tree on a successive throw: Time to use a different disc.

["Over the Hill" Bob]

After I make a bad throw and the next guy has a great throw........"Yep, that's what I MEANT to do."

After hearing today about all the putts hitting dead center and bouncing out at Hornings Hideout........."I got Horninged."

Bob

[captain jack]

The basket on #17 at Seatac is guarded by two apple trees, one which grows directly over the top, from about 8' to 20'.
Clearing the low hanging branches can be a challenge from a distance, but since there isnt much in the way of leaves, it is possible to loft a shot into the top of the branches, and watch it flip and flop and fall down between them, sometimes into the basket.

I didnt make up the term, but its my favorite, this type of shot is called
"Plinko"

[blang11]

When my disc is released wrong, I often yell, "do something cool" or "you cheap whore".

I think I started saying 'Do something cool" in similar situations. I thought I was the only one!

[blang11]

I once heard someone (forgot who) say this for shots that flipped so bad that they became accidental cut rollers, dodged OB, and came back to the fairway, "Well that was so bad it was good again!"

My dad is a ball golfer and I have carried over much of his lingo. When you throw an approach way too hard and your disc is sailing past the basket: "Full flaps!". Or if you fear rolling away down a hill: "Grow teeth!"

Also from my dad, for some reason when he "pures his line" or drives down the center of the fairway, he says, "I hit it straight down the cock." I don't exactly get it, but I find it hilarious.

Of course there is a general shout if you mess up in any way. Just yell, "Nikko!" and slap your hands in disappointment.

As far as insults go, if someone left a putt short, you can ask them if their skirt flew up in their face before taking the putt. The more genuinely consoling you appear to be, the funnier it is.

[killa]

Guy steps onto tee pad, a little overexcited, and grip-locks his drive into one of the closest trees it could have possibly hit... it's one of the most embarassing things that can happen to a golfer: "premature tree-jaculation." :blush:

[Joshua Olmsted]

I like singing, "I'm Sailing Awayyyyy" when discs are headed into the nasty stuff, I also like the word Shule, I try to find ordinary everday uses for it.

[Toby Puttzinski]

Male chauvinistic statements:
Princess Lay-up... Mrs. Dash.... does your husband play disc golf?(to a man)... next time throw your purse at it.... you really 'Sally-ed' that one.

Quote borrowed from the movie 'Kids'... "I have no legs... I have no legs... I have no legs."

It's common for top pro ball golfers to say "nice ball" when someone hits a good drive... so are the top pro dg'ers going to start saying "nice disc" all of the time?

When I first started dg, many of the locals at North Park(tightly wooded course) seemed to actually believe that saying "nice" while their disc was in flight would 'magically' make the disc hit a tree... some guys would actually get really pissed off at someone for saying "nice", truly convincing themselves that their disc was jinxed into hitting the ninja branch that reached out and thwarted their birdie effort.
-- I have to admit though, I still break out a well timed 'nice' at NP once in a while, and boy does it seem to really work wonders... "nice... NICE!!... thwack.. ting!!"

I like to say "clean living" when someone gets a lucky break... or the proverbial "that guy must have a horseshoe up his ass."

[Scotty B]

I have a friend who likes to chime in on errant throws to the tune of "not the way I would have played it" and I use one when you seem to hit every tree on any particular hole "nice job in using the whole course"

[D-Walk]

"I got Horninged."
Bob

I've always called this getting Horned. :pullhair:

[General Scales]

Any ace run that sticks gets a "You Cubby'd that one" (for Cubbys ridiculous amount of aces)
Any tree smash off a drive or approach is an "Enemy of Greenpeace."
Any putt that rings and falls out is "Revenge of the links!" (usually screamed in a highlander announcer style voice)

[Tim]

Any ace run that sticks gets a "You Cubby'd that one" (for Cubbys ridiculous amount of aces)


Hehe, I've seen guys on other message boards differentiate between their "aces" and their "Cubbies". If it goes in on the first throw, it's an ace, if it takes you two or three (or ten) tries, it's a Cubby. :D

[runnaman]

When I know I my throw is going to go past the the basket I say "Die!"
I tell my putter it sucks when I shank a putt.
After turning over a drive I'll tell it to "Get stable"

I just realized that I talk to my discs a lot

[Ol' Bob]

Guy steps onto tee pad, a little overexcited, and grip-locks his drive into one of the closest trees it could have possibly hit... it's one of the most embarassing things that can happen to a golfer: "premature tree-jaculation." :blush:

That reminded me that when a shot slips out way too soon and is headed for some wrong basket, I say, "premature edisculation."

[Snooskie Longhorn]

You know, some folks just don't like people talking to their discs.

[Jet]

"Course correction" - when a disc is heading the wrong direction, hits a tree and goes in the right direction.

See also "Tree Love"

When a disc heading the right direction hits a tree and goes the wrong direction I say, "Tree Indifference".

[Jet]

"That's what she said" I say it till it's well beyond annoying, sorry!


There is a facebook page called - That's What She Said.

[Ol' Bob]

Back when I was on the submarine, "that's what she said," was usually followed by, "...and then the bed broke."

[Jim J]

Snaking a route through thick branches is taking the "Vaseline Alley."

Tree slap is: "Treefense"

[The Ombudsman]

On a putt that barely makes it in, especially short side, I like "Thin, but in!" or the extrapolation "Skinny, but inny" If the putt does not hit the chains but is good, I like "Chainless, but painless!" otherwise I alternate that one with "I don't need no stinkin' chains!!"

[ChUcK]

I like hearing someone yell "Nestle!" (pronounced like trestle, not the food manufacturer) at their disc when it needs to stop skidding/rolling/skipping and just sit by the basket.

For some reason, some group I used to play with would loudly proclaim "Tony Danza!" whenever an upshot would only make it halfway to the bucket. This was long before the Boss came out, though.

[The Ombudsman]

On a real bad Klingon: "Yankee Doodle Dandy!"

[The Ombudsman]

"Course correction" - when a disc is heading the wrong direction, hits a tree and goes in the right direction.

See also "Tree Love"

On this one I like the freestyle acronym: "Mid Air Correction Mid Air Correction -M.A.C.!!!!"

[DMajor]

On a putt that barely makes it in, especially short side, I like "Thin, but in!" or the extrapolation "Skinny, but inny" If the putt does not hit the chains but is good, I like "Chainless, but painless!" otherwise I alternate that one with "I don't need no stinkin' chains!!"

What about Hakusa?

[Zaqcb]

I enjoy the term 'Amhyzer' for when I throw an unintentional hyzer.

[Cajun]

"SHANE! Come back!" an errant throw or going way too long on a hole

"Tip the valet that baby's parked" (self explanatory)

"Any disc, any day" (said in one's head before what should be a manageable putt)

"Get lucky"

"MOVE THAT CAR LADY!" (screamed in a panic over & over again when the disc is heading toward a parking lot full of cars. Similar to "DON'T HIT THE DOG!")

"thatta girl"

"That was in in Oregon" (said often in Lake Stevens when one of our pure and true baskets rejects an otherwise good looking putt. Oregon may be substituted with Lakewood, MLT, Juel, etc)

"Jackass putt" (staring at a putt that if you miss could easily turn your birdie or par into a bogey or worse)

[T-Bird]

"Where you goin?" when I shank one, or "Basket's that way!"

[General Scales]

I forgot a few the last time I posted so here we go for round 2:

A buddy threw a brand new ESP SS Avenger into a tree at full pull. He is a big guy with massive arm speed. After retrieving his disc, he came back with a smile on his face and said "Tree bling". Confused we all looked and saw a giant chip out of the rim on one side crammed full of bark. Tree bling being foreign debris stuck in the disc due to massive high speed contact.

"Janky" being any throw that is grip locked or looks ugly from drive, approaches putts etc. Perhaps the most used word in my vocab after a few beers down in a casual round.

"Sky Shanking" entails a drive that just goes into stratus sphere and comes down less then 100 feet from the drive spot. Tends to happen to me with any disc that is supposed to create lift. I.E. the Monarch.

"Hitchhiker Thumb" is my descriptive term for any human that launches thumbers further then 300 feet. Since the only way I see it being possible is having a giant thumb to create a giant surface area to create giant snap.

Last but not least "Chainjection" any throw that hits chains, then the center pole then back out the way it came in. So many aces have been denied for me because of this horrible affliction.

[mazza]

Last but not least "Chainjection" any throw that hits chains, then the center pole then back out the way it came in. So many aces have been denied for me because of this horrible affliction.

thats one i gota remember as thats happens to me way to often:waaah:

[The Ombudsman]

What about Hakusa?

that's "the patented Halcoussis putt"

[DMajor]

"This game hates me"

Phrase cried by "The Baked One" after a weak side putt spits just left of the basket onto the ground. This is especially memorable when it is followed by throwing a frustration driver deep into the woods. The location from which the driver was thrown can and should forever be known as a "Tantrum Tee". In this particular case "Bill's Tantrum Tee".

[sillybizz]

I use the term plinko when a disc hits high in a tree and then hits many branches coming down to the ground, similar to the game on the price is right.

[NWDiscer]

A buddy threw a brand new ESP SS Avenger into a tree at full pull. He is a big guy with massive arm speed. After retrieving his disc, he came back with a smile on his face and said "Tree bling". Confused we all looked and saw a giant chip out of the rim on one side crammed full of bark. Tree bling being foreign debris stuck in the disc due to massive high speed contact.



I have had this said to me many times after smashing a tree "you need some "salsa" for that taco".....:jumpspin:

[Iowa]

Or when you drill a tree and take off the bark. That's what I call a tattoo.

[emmarose]

When someone throws a great shot I like to call it "moist"

gross.

[DMajor]

gross.

Almost every woman I have ever met finds that word disgusting

[emmarose]

Almost every woman I have ever met finds that word disgusting

ha! and all my friends just think I'm weird! (I, however, have a huge list of everyday vocabulary I find offensive... so... maybe they have a point...)

[emmarose]

"You wish you could throw like a girl!"

... my favorite moment for this was out at Horning's when I strutted up into the parking lot after getting my par on 18 for the 3rd time in a row and some dude was like, "Woah... I guess you can throw pretty far for a girl..." and then his face fell, and he realized his faux pas and he began apologizing... that's cool, man... I like to think I'm pretty burly and I don't mind surprising people!

[emmarose]

"You wish you could throw like a girl!"

... my favorite moment for this was out at Horning's when I strutted up into the parking lot after getting my par on 18 for the 3rd time in a row and some dude was like, "Woah... I guess you can throw pretty far for a girl..." and then his face fell, and he realized his faux pas and he began apologizing... that's cool, man... I like to think I'm pretty burly and I don't mind surprising people!

I guess that's not really lingo, tho... just me being a little bit cocky... ah, well...

[Tim]

"You wish you could throw like a girl!"

... my favorite moment for this was out at Horning's when I strutted up into the parking lot after getting my par on 18 for the 3rd time in a row and some dude was like, "Woah... I guess you can throw pretty far for a girl..." and then his face fell, and he realized his faux pas and he began apologizing... that's cool, man... I like to think I'm pretty burly and I don't mind surprising people!

Haha, that would make a sweet bumper sticker. I wish disc golf had an equivalent to the LPGA, that could totally be their slogan.

I give my chick friends grief sometimes with the ol' "throw like a girl" routine, but I'm pretty sure they realize I'm being facetious. At least I hope they do!

[jevon]

"You wish you could throw like a girl!"
I was wishing I could "throw like a girl" when T-Bell beat me by 10 strokes at McIver... :bricks:

["Over the Hill" Bob]

I was wishing I could "throw like a girl" when T-Bell beat me by 10 strokes at McIver... :bricks:

Jevon.............you DO throw like a girl. :laughing:Like a little school girl and you cry the same way. :waaah:

Bob

[The Course Bro]

From Geoff: "Big Country" when some drives for the sky
"Hand of God" when your disc hits something invisible and smacks straight to the ground
"Throwing like you get air miles" MTA throw that works out
"Get Ridiculous" when a shanker is headed for trouble but there just might be a hidden line
"Circus shot" Mike Weber's rollers on 9 and 18 at north park or any crazy line that works out
"The course's way of telling you that you need more practice" the roll away putt that ends up farther away that your original lie.
"Rim Job" when you railslide the basket rim and out the other side

[ChUcK]

"Rim Job" when you railslide the basket rim and out the other side

Is there a special case name for a Rim Job on a Cool Shoez basket? I swear, when you rail-slide on those nubless rims, your disc achieves some sort of orbital acceleration around the chains, and it shoots out with three times the velocity it had originally, most likely to a spot behind a bush. That's the basket's way of telling you you need more practice, I guess.

[The Ombudsman]

On a drive that comes up just short of a good putt: "warning track power"

[DMajor]

A drive that is released high and fluffy and hyzers out- "popped up to shallow left field"

[mazza]

time for a world of warcraft term.... "leroy jenkins"

for when u run at the basket with no regaurd of the out come. its a "Leroyyyyyyyyy Jenkins"

[DMajor]

Especially if it's doubles and your partner already went way past

[LakeStevensBA]

Often heard at Lake Stevens early in the morning after throwing your drive into a fir tree...

"Hello morning wood.."

[bigal]

Hitting two or more trees on the same drive: Pinball or Bitch Slap

I like saying, "Just played Plinko and Lost or won." Depending on the outcome. Usually it's lost. Plinko? you may ask. I grew up watching "The Price is Right"

[emmarose]

I like saying, "Just played Plinko and Lost or won." Depending on the outcome. Usually it's lost. Plinko? you may ask. I grew up watching "The Price is Right"

Plinko is one of my fave golf terms as well for the action of bouncing back and forth betwixt the trees...

and plinko was me and my grammy's favorite price is right game...

[Adam Schneider]

and plinko was me and my grammy's favorite price is right game...
Judging by the way the contestants freaked out when they announced it, you and your grammy weren't alone.

[emmarose]

Judging by the way the contestants freaked out when they announced it, you and your grammy weren't alone.

yeah... my grammy was a pretty hip, savvy lady for being so damn old...

[TreeLove]

Plinko is one of the WORST games to draw on TPIR. TOTALLY OVERRATED. I have seen dozens and dozens of TPIR contestants get SKUNKED on Plinko. But Bob could sell ice cream to Eskimos....

[emmarose]

Plinko is one of the WORST games to draw on TPIR. TOTALLY OVERRATED. I have seen dozens and dozens of TPIR contestants get SKUNKED on Plinko. But Bob could sell ice cream to Eskimos....

worst to draw... best to watch! plus, I just like to say plinko... plinko plinko plinko!