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Darts terms and slang
A glossary of darts terms and slang, from bed and breakfast to madhouse, tops, ton and robin hood.
Darts has its own language. Here are the terms you'll hear most often.
- Bed
- A segment of the board, as in the 20 bed.
- Bed and breakfast
- A score of 26, from single 20, single 5 and single 1.
- Bogey number
- A score of 170 or less that can't be checked out. See bogey numbers.
- Bull
- The centre of the board, worth 50 and counting as a double. The ring around it, the outer bull, is 25.
- Bust
- Scoring more than you need, or leaving 1, which resets your score for that turn.
- Checkout
- The score you finish a leg with, or the act of finishing. See the checkout chart.
- Double out
- The rule that the last dart must be a double.
- Leg
- One game of 501 or another format.
- Madhouse
- Double 1, because it is the last double you can be left on. See Double 1.
- Maximum
- 180, the highest score with three darts.
- Oche
- The line you stand behind to throw. Pronounced "ockey".
- Robin hood
- When a dart lands in the back of another dart.
- Shanghai
- Hitting the single, double and treble of the same number in one visit.
- Ton
- A score of 100 or more in one visit. "Ton-forty" is 140.
- Tops
- Double 20, at the top of the board. See Double 20.
- Three-dart average
- Points scored per three darts. Work yours out with the average calculator.