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A

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  • Acceleration
  • Active release
  • AJBC
  • All the way
  • Alley
  • Angular move
  • Apple
  • Area
  • Axis migration
  • Axis point->PAP
  • Axis weight

B

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  • Baby split with company
  • Baby the ball
  • Back end
  • Back pitch
  • Backup
  • Backup alley
  • Balance hole
  • Balk
  • Ball down
  • Ball rack
  • Ball sanding->Sanding
  • Ball shining->Shining
  • Ball start->push away
  • Ball track
  • Ball up
  • Ball weight
  • Barmaid
  • Bed
  • Bedposts
  • Belly the ball
  • Bellying->Deep inside line
  • Bench work, bench jockeying
  • Bicycle
  • Big ball
  • Big ears
  • Big fill
  • Big five
  • Blow
  • Blow a rack
  • Blow the 5
  • Blowout
  • Body english
  • Bolsa
  • Bonus
  • Bottom weight
  • Box
  • BPAA
  • Break
  • Breaking-in period
  • Bridge
  • Broken wrist
  • Broom ball
  • Bucket
  • Burnt heads

C

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  • CC
  • Center of gravity->CG
  • CG
  • Charge
  • Cheater
  • Cherry
  • Choke
  • Christmas tree
  • Cincinnati
  • Classified
  • Closed frame->filled frame
  • Clothes line
  • Clothesline->picket fence
  • Clutch
  • Cocked wrist
  • Coefficient of friction
  • Creep speed
  • Creeper
  • Crooked arm
  • Cross
  • Crow hopper
  • Crowning
  • Curtain
  • Curve
  • Cushion
  • Cutter

D

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  • Dead apple, dead ball
  • Deep inside line
  • Deflection
  • Dime store
  • Dinner bucket, dinner pail
  • Dive
  • Division boards
  • Doctoring a lane
  • Dodo
  • Dots
  • Dots (approach)
  • Dots (foul line)
  • Dots (mid-lane)
  • Double pinochle
  • Dovetails
  • Dress the lane
  • Drive
  • Durometer

E

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  • Emblem
  • Error

F

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  • Fair shot
  • Faith, Hope, Charity
  • Fast
  • Fast 10-pin
  • Fast 7-pin
  • Fence posts
  • Fifth arrow
  • Fill
  • Finger grips
  • Finger smear test
  • Finger weight
  • First arrow
  • Fit split
  • Flat (oil pattern)
  • Flat alley
  • Flat arc
  • Flat ball
  • Flat hit
  • Flip
  • Floater
  • Flood the lane
  • Force
  • Forward pitch
  • Foul line
  • Foundation
  • Foundation, early
  • Fourth arrow
  • Friction
  • Friction zone
  • Fried heads->burnt heads
  • Front end
  • Frozen rope
  • Fudge
  • Full hit
  • Full roller
  • Full roller

G

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  • Getting the wood
  • Give a shot
  • Goal posts
  • Golden gate
  • Grab
  • Grabbing lane
  • Grasshopper
  • Graveyards
  • Grip
  • Groove
  • Grooved lane
  • Gutter ball

H

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  • Half hit
  • Hand
  • Hard ball
  • Hard way
  • Hardness scale
  • Heads
  • Heavy pocket strike
  • High board
  • High hit
  • High RG axis
  • High roller
  • High spinner
  • Higher
  • Hit flat
  • Hit up
  • Hold area
  • Hold, holding alley
  • Hole
  • Hole alignment
  • Home alley
  • Honey
  • Hook alley
  • Hooking lanes
  • Hot
  • House condition
  • House shot

I

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  • Illegal ball
  • Imbalance
  • In there
  • In time
  • Inertia
  • Initial spin axis->PAP
  • Inside house
  • Intermediate RG axis

J

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  • Jack Manders
  • Jam
  • Jersey side

K

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  • Kick off
  • Kill shot
  • Kindling wood
  • Kinetic energy
  • Kitty
  • Kresge

L

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  • Lane
  • Lane analyzer
  • Lane conditioner->Oil
  • Lane conditioning
  • Lane finish
  • Lane track
  • Late 10
  • Late 10-pin
  • Late 7-pin
  • Late-roll strike
  • Lateral pitch
  • Launch angle
  • Lay down distance
  • Leadoff
  • Left side pitch
  • Left side weight
  • Leverage weight
  • Leverage window
  • Lift
  • Light pocket strike
  • Lily
  • Limited distance dressing (LDD)->Short oil
  • Loading and unloading->Wristing
  • Loafing
  • Lofting
  • Long oil
  • Looper
  • Loose hit
  • Low RG axis
  • Lustre King

M

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  • Maple
  • Maples
  • Mass
  • Mass bias->PSA
  • Maximum weight tolerances
  • Maximum weights
  • Medal play
  • Miss
  • Missed head pin
  • Momentum
  • Mother-in-law
  • Move in
  • Move out
  • Mule ears
  • Murphy

N

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  • NBC
  • Negative weight
  • Negative weights
  • Neutral stance
  • Neutral timing
  • Nose hit
  • Nothing ball

O

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  • Off-the-wall shot
  • Offset
  • Oil barrier
  • One in the dark
  • Open
  • Open up (lane)
  • Open up a lane
  • Optimal axis rotation
  • Out and in
  • Out of bounds
  • Out of the pit
  • Outside house
  • Over
  • Over turn

P

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  • Pack
  • Pancake weight block
  • Parallel move
  • Part of the building
  • Passive release
  • Pearl (coverstock)
  • Pick
  • Picket fence
  • Pie alley
  • Pin
  • Pin in
  • Pin out
  • Pinching the ball
  • Pine
  • Plastic ball
  • Play the gutter
  • Pocket 7-10
  • Point
  • Poison ivy
  • Polyester
  • Polyurethane->Urethane
  • Poodle
  • Porosity
  • Positive axis point->PAP
  • Positive weight
  • Positive weights
  • Pot game
  • Powder puff, puff ball
  • Power player
  • Power player->Cranker
  • Powerhouse
  • Pre-reading a lane
  • Puddle
  • Pull
  • Pumpkin
  • Punch out
  • Push (noun)
  • Push (verb)
  • Put down and inside shot
  • Put down and outside shot

Q

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  • Quick eight

R

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  • Railroad
  • Rap
  • Rat club
  • Reading the lanes
  • Return
  • Reverse
  • Reverse block
  • Reverse pitch->Back pitch
  • Rico
  • Right side pitch
  • Right side weight
  • Ringing 10-pin
  • Ringing 7-pin
  • Rock
  • Rocket speed
  • Rotational kinetic energy
  • Rubber
  • Rubber ball
  • Run, running lane
  • Runway

S

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  • Sand trap
  • Sanding
  • Sandwich game
  • Sarge Easter grip
  • Scenic route
  • Schleifer
  • Second arrow
  • Semi-fingertip
  • Semifingertip grip
  • Semiroller
  • Seventh arrow
  • Shining
  • Short oil
  • Short pin
  • Shotgun shot
  • Shur-Hook
  • Side weights
  • Sidearming
  • Sidewalls
  • Sixth arrow
  • Slap 10-pin strike
  • Slap 7-pin strike
  • Slick
  • Slot alley
  • Small ball
  • Snake eyes
  • Snow plow
  • Soft 10-pin
  • Soft 7-pin
  • Soft alley
  • Soft ball
  • Solid (coverstock)
  • Solid 10-pin->Ringing 10-pin
  • Solid 7-pin->Ringing 7-pin
  • Sour apple
  • Spare leave
  • Spiller
  • Spin
  • Spin axis->axis of rotation
  • Splasher
  • Splice
  • Spotty condition
  • Static release
  • Steal
  • Stiff alley
  • Stone 10-pin
  • Stone 7-pin
  • Straight player
  • Straight wrist
  • Strap ball
  • Strap the ball
  • Stretch fingertip
  • Stretched grip
  • Strike split
  • String
  • Suitcase grip
  • Surface finish
  • Sweeper
  • Sweepstakes
  • Swing area
  • Swisher

T

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  • Tactile lane test
  • Take away the pocket, take away the shot
  • Tandem
  • Taper the lane
  • Targeting arrows
  • Targeting dots
  • Telephone poles
  • Thin hit
  • Third arrow
  • Three-bagger
  • Three-quarter roller->Semiroller
  • Through the face
  • Through the nose
  • Throwing rocks
  • Thumb grips
  • Thumb weight
  • Thumb-bridge alignment
  • Thumb-middle-finger alignment
  • Thumb-ring-finger alignment
  • Tight lanes
  • Top spin
  • Top weight
  • Topping the ball
  • Torque
  • Touch
  • Tour condition
  • Track (ball)
  • Track (lane)
  • Track area
  • Track->Ball track
  • Translational kinetic energy
  • Trip four
  • Trip six
  • Tripped 4
  • Turn
  • Tweener
  • Twister->Cranker

U

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  • Umbrella ball
  • Under
  • Unfair shot
  • Uniform playing condition
  • Up the hill

V

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  • Velocity
  • Venting
  • Visual lane test

W

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  • Wall
  • Walled lane->Blocked lane
  • Walled up
  • Walls->Kickbacks
  • Water in the ball
  • Weight hole->balance hole
  • Wet condition
  • Winding them in
  • Wood
  • Wooden bottles
  • Woolworth
  • Working ball
  • Wrap 10-pin->ringing 10-pin
  • Wrap 7-pin->ringing 7-pin
  • Wristing
  • WTBA

Y

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  • Yank the shot

Z

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  • Zero in
  • Zero pitch

Existing

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  • Blind
  • Block
  • Blocked
  • Blocked lane->walled lane
  • Breaking down
  • Cheese cakes
  • Closed (stance)
  • Conventional fit
  • Fingertip fit
  • Flat 10-pin
  • Flat 7-pin
  • Open (stance)
  • Post
  • Ringing 10-pin
  • Ringing 7-pin
  • Synthetic lanes
  • X

Sources

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  • Ritger, Dick; Allen, George (1978). The Complete Guide to Bowling Spares.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  • Allen, George; Ritger, Dick (1981). The Complete Guide to Bowling Strikes.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  • Freeman, James; Hatfield, Ron (2018). Bowling Beyond the Basics: What's really happening on the lanes, and what you can do about it.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  • Herbst, Dan (1993). Bowling 300.