The New Texas Hold-Em Poker Lingo

It's time to expand the lingo. Texas Hold-Em is rich with names. Big Slick, Walking Sticks, Bullets, Motown, Beer Hand. Gut Shot, Flush Draw, Trips, Flop, Turn, River. Everything you do has a cool name in Texas Hold-Em.

Well, not everything. And that's the problem. There are a few clunkers out there: Union Oil? Blocky? Oldsmobile? Montana Banana? Or what about Broderick Crawford? Honestly now, when was the last time you were dealt a 10-4 and flipped those bad boys over announcing you've got the "Broderick Crawford"?

I'm betting we all innovate a bit in our own games. It's time to share. Send in your favorite names for hands, situations, whatever. Let's freshen this great language up.

Submit your lingo

Names that are bold-faced have been submitted by people as new lingo; all the others are already well-recognized, common names.

Hands

Bullets, Pocket Rockets, American Airlines, Pins credit

Big Slick, Santa Barbara, 47's, Ruskie, Terrorist (as in the gun Ak-47) credit Kalashnikov credit

Broadway

Big Chick

Ajax, Foamy Cleanser

  Johnny Moss, Warthog credit

Dead Man's Hand

Little Slick, Big Bottom credit

Wheel, Bicycle

Steel Wheel

Cowboys, Gorillas

Three Wise Men

Kojack

Canine, Pedigree, Mongrel

Kokomo

Alaska Hand, King Crab

Reach-Around Straight (not a real hand) credit

Siegfried & Roy, Three Queens Short of a Fab Five, Ladies, Bitches credit

Maverick

Quinine

Computer Hand

San Francisco Busboy

The Spanker (Jack-King-Off) credit

Jack & Jill credit

Fish Hooks

Three Muskateers credit

Motown, Jackson Five

Flat Tire ("What's a jack for?") credit

J. Lo credit

Thirty Miles

Woolworth

Broderick Crawford, Trucker ("as in: 10-4 good buddy") credit

Doyle Brunson

Phil Hellmuth, Sperm credit

Persian Carpetride

Oldsmobile, Olds

Dolly Parton

Montana Banana

Snowmen, Octopuses, pair of eights credit, Double Infinities credit, Dog Balls credit

American Astronaut (because in 1985 they discovered there was water on Mars) credit

Walking Sticks, Hockey Sticks, Manute Bol credit

Union Oil

Beer Hand, 'Crap' credit

Dinner For Two credit

Sperm credit

Blocky

Heinz, Spud Webb credit

Speed Limit, Presto

Jesse James

Darth Vader ("The Dark Side of the Fours")

Sailboats credit Dirty Harry credit

The Igoe

Crabs, Treys

The Runs credit

Little Sticky or Sonofabitch (when they beat your Rockets) credit

The Hammer

Lumberman's Hand

Ducks, Dueces, Massengill credit

Submit your lingo

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