• Action: Movement imparted to the ball by the fingers as the ball is released.
• Anchor man: The last bowler in a team.
• Angle: Direction taken by the ball as it enters the 1-3 pocket.
• Arrows: Dart-like markers out on the lane 12 to 16 feet used by the bowler to help him keep his line to the pins.
• Baby strike: Pins left after the ball so that there is a pocket corresponding to the 1-3 pocket for the full setup.
• Back-up ball: Ball that moves to the right, the opposite of a hook.
• Blow: Fail to make spare; technically, an error.
• Break of the boards: Points approximately 16 feet out from the foul line just beyond the darts, or arrows.
• Brooklyn: Ball thrown into the 1-2 pockets.
• Channel: Gutter on each side of the lanes.
• Cherry: Pin left when a pin in front is knocked down, or chooped; a bowler who has so performed is said tp have picked a cherry.
• Chinaman: Third bowler in a team.
• Chop: To hit a front pin and leave one or more behind it.
• Crossover: Ball thrown into the 1-2 pocket; crossover line is aim of the bowler to hit this pocket.
• Dump: Dropping the ball at the foul line, usually as a result of rushing the line.
• Deflection: Movement of the ball from its true path caused by a pin or pins that are hit.
• Die: Ball losing action or velocity at the end of the roll.
• Fill: Number of pins dropped after a spare.
• Flatten: To turn the wrist away from the ball at the end of the ball release.
• Foul line: Line at the end of the approach marking the beginning of the lane; a sliding foot or any other part of the bowler's body touching the lane beyond the foul line results in loss of all pins made on the roll.
• Frame: One of the ten divisions of a game; the corresponding box on a score sheet.
• Get-away: Action of dropping the ball at the forl line; see also Dump.
• Hang a corner pin: Leave a corner pin standing.
• Headpin: The 1 pin.
• Heavy: BAll that hits the 1-pin head on; also on the nose.
• High: Head on to the headpin.
• Holding lane: Lane that resists the hook motion of the ball.
• Hook: Break of the ball into 1-3 pocket.
• Kickback: Side wall on each side of the pun deck.
• Lay a foundation: Strike in the ninth frame.
• Lead-off man: First bowler in a team.
• Leave: Pins standing after the first ball of the frame.
• Light hit: Ball that barely touches the 1 pin; also thin.
• Miss: Fail to make a spare; also blow; an erroe.
• Open frame: A pin or pins left standing after the second ball.
• Pick a cherry: See Cherry.
• Pie alley: Lane that allows high scores.
• Pin action: Motion of struck pins that turn knock over others.
• Pin deck: Area at the end of the lane on whih the pins are postioned
• Pit: The area at the end of the lane beyond the pin deck.
• Pocket: Space between the 1- and 3-pins; space between 1- and 2-pins for left-handers.
• Ringing-10 pin: 10-pin left standing a powerful strike; also ringing 4-pin.
• Running lane: Lane on which the ball hooks easily.
• Side walls: Kickbacks on each side of the pin deck.
• Sleeper: Pins hidden behind another in a spare.
• Solid: Strong hit.
• Spare: To knock down all ten pins with the first and second balls; also the score for doing so.
• Split: Leave of the two or more pins(not the 1-pin) with intervening space where pins have fallen.
• Stiff lane: Lane that resists a hook.
• Strike: To knock down ten pins with the first ball; also score for doing so.
• Strong: Ball that has a good deal of action; also working.
7-pin: 7-pin left standing as other pins swish by it; also swishing 10-pin.
• Tap: Hit that seems perfect but leaves one pin standing.
• Thin hit: See Light hit.
• Ticker: 6-pin that bounces off the right kickback and knocks down the 10-pin.
• Track: (1) the path on a bowling ball that it rolls on most often; (2) path on a bolwing lane over which many bowlers rol.
• Washoout: The 1-2-10 spare.
• Wall shot: Strike that is aided by pins coming off the left kickback to knock over other pins.
• Weak 7-pin: Pin left standing after an unforceful hit; also weak4-pin.
• Wire it: Throw three strikes in the tenth frame.

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