Angle: A wrestling plot which may involve only one match or may continue overseveral matches for some time; the reason behind a feud or a turn.
Blade: The practice of cutting oneself or being cut with a part of a razor blade during a match.
Booker: The individual responsible for angles, finishes, hiring and firing in a promotion.
Bump: A fall or hit done as a spot (see spot) which takes the wrestler (or other participant, i.e. referee, manager) out of the ring or out of action.
Card: The series of matches in one location at one time.
Dark Match: A match that is not televised, but usually is performed before a t.v. taping to excite the crowd.
Draw: To attract fans to a show. Example: The Rock is a big Draw
DUD: A particularly bad and totally uninteresting match, usually resulting in a "boring!" chant.
ECW: Extreme Championship Wrestling
Face: A fan favorite. A wrestler who plays the good guy.
Fall: To pin your opponent for a count of three.
Feud: A series of matches between two wrestlers or two tag teams, usually face vs. heel though face feuds and heel feuds are not unknown.
Foreign object: Something that is not allowed in the ring, but is used to hurt your opponent.
Green: Not good due to inexperience, a novice or beginner
Heat: An angry response from the audience; being "booed". Or, to have someone angry at you
Heel: A bad guy in a federation. A heel often cheats and breaks the rules.
House: The wrestling audience in the building where a show is to take place
House Show: A performance that is not being televised.
Jabroni: A fool, a wrestler that has no talent.
Job: A staged loss.
Jobber: An unpushed wrestler who intentionally loses for pushed wrestlers. The Brooklyn Brawler is a jobber.
Kayfabe: Of or related to inside information about the business, especially by fans.
Mark: A die hard fan of a certain wrestler
Pop: Loud cheers as a response to a wrestler's entry or hot move.
Post: To run or be run into the ringpost.
Potato: To injure a wrestler by hitting him on the head or causing him to hit his head on something.
Push: To promote a wrestlers career more than other wrestlers. To make a certain wrestler look good.
Rat: a scanky and usually but not always ugly female that hangs around wrestling shows and flaunts themselves at the male wrestlers with hopes of getting some from one of them.
Ring general: The wrestler that leads the match, usually the more experienced wrestler
Run-In: Interference by a non-participant in a match to prevent a loss, or to help another wrestler.
Screw Job: A match or ending which is not clean (definite) due to factors outside the rules of wrestling.
Shoot: The real thing, i.e. a match where the participants are really attempting to hurt each other. The opposite of work.
Smark: A mark that knows a lot about the wrestling industry.
Spot: A particular wrestling move or an event or sequence of events which makes a particular match distinctive, a high-point of a match.
Squash: A totally passive job where one wrestler completely dominates another.
Stiff: Chops, hits or moves which cause real injury, not to pull punches
Turn: To change from heel to face or vice-versa.
WCW: World Championship Wrestling
Work: A deception or sham, the opposite of a shoot.
WWF: World Wrestling Federation
