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Cornhole Terminology
Airmail:
A bag that does not slide or bounce on the board but goes directly into the hole, usually over an opponent’s blocker bag.
Ace:
(also Woody) Receiving one point for having a beanbag land (and stay) on the board. You’ve achieved an Ace!
Back Door:
A beanbag that, either by bouncing or a swish, goes over the top of a blocker and into the hole for 3 points.
Blocker:
A blocker is a bag that lands on the board strategically placed directly in front of the hole, thus blocking your opponent’s bags from sliding in.
Backstop:
Backstop (also Backboard) – A cornhole bag that slides or lands past the cornhole but remains on the board creating a nice “backstop”. This type of situation helps keep other sliders from going off the board.
Cowpie:
same thing as an ace. A bag that lands right in the hole, scoring 3 points!
Cornhole:
Cornhole is a lawn game popular in North America in which players or teams take turns throwing fabric bean bags at a raised, angled board with a hole in its far end. The goal of the game is to score points by either landing a bag on the board or putting a bag through the hole.
Cornhole ladies:
Noobie (also Newbie) – Someone who is new to playing Cornhole. Generally, they haven’t mastered the frisbee (pancake) tossing style yet.
Candy Corn:
A bag that has fallen short of hitting the cornhole board.
Cornfusion:
This happens when teams or players disagree on the score during an inning.
Cornholio:
same as “cornhole,” depending on the region; named for the alter-ego of the character Beavis from the MTV animated series Beavis and Butt-Head
Corn Patty:
A synonymous term with “Candycorn”, a corn patty is when a thrown bag fails to reach the cornhole board.
Dirty Bag:
Occasionally a bag hits the ground first before bouncing or rolling up onto the cornhole board, resulting in a dirty bag.
Double Deuce:
Similar to a Cornzizzle or Gusher, a double deuce is achieved when a player lands all 4 of their bags in the hole, in a single round.
Dirty roll up:
Contrary to popular belief, not a fruit roll up that ended up on the ground. Actually, it’s a bag that hits the ground before rolling onto the board. No points are awarded for this toss.
Flop:
When a bag is tossed in cornhole and there is no spin or rotation during its flight, this is referred to as a flop.
Frame
A single round or turn during which a player and opponent each throw 4 bags.
Hammer:
Four bagger
A sequence of a player making all four bags in the hole during a frame.
Glory Hole – when a player tosses a bag and it goes into the hole without touching the cornhole board, this is sometimes called a glory hole.
Hammer:
A hammer is a bag thrown as an airmail bag with a high arch in an attempt to take hanger bags into the hole with it. Typically, the last bag tossed each round or inning is sometimes referred to as the hammer.
Hanger:
when a bag lands on the rim of the hole, but doesn’t fall in.
Honors:
Honors – the team that gets to throw first, because they scored last the previous round.
Hooker: a bag that hits the board and while hooking or curving around a blocker goes into the hole.
Jumper: If a bag hits another bean bag on the board and jumps into the hole
Shucker – when one player tosses a bag and knocks an opponent’s bag off the board.
Skunk – when one team scores 11 points before the other team scores any; or a game that ends in a 21–0 score.
Swish:
A bag that goes directly in the hole without touching the board. More often referred to as “airmail”..
Wash:
When each team has scored exactly the same number of points in an inning, thereby “washing out” all points scored in the inning.
Woody:
Refers to any cornhole bag that has been pitched and remains on the cornhole board playing surface at the conclusion of the frame.