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Not just to better understand the commentator on TV, but also to have an easier time chatting with others about your favourite sport, here's some Jargon for you to study. You know, before you sit down to watch at the pub. In the end, perhaps knowledge about these things will also help you while reading up before a competition and doing your research before betting.

• Busted: Exceeding the number of points required to go out. Happens all the time.
• Cork: Term for the bull's eye, can also be used as a verb of course.
• Double: Landing a dart in the outer ring, thus doubling your points.
• Double Bull: Innermost part of the bull's eye.
• Double In / Double Out: Hitting the double area is required when beginning a game or when ending a game outright.
• Eights: Different way of saying "18".
• Fat: Another term for the bigger parts of each segment on the board. A single hit instead of a double or triple score.
• Feathers: "33".
• Fives: Different way of saying "15".
• Flight: The fletching of the dart, nowadays made of plastic.
• "He doesn't want it!": A playful, certainly taunting exclamation of the crowd whenever a player is struggling to complete a leg.
• Hockey: The line athletes must not step over when throwing. Can also be raised in some tournament rulesets.
• Leg: A game part of a match. Down at the pub you could call for "best of three legs", with each leg being a game part of the match between players.
• Match: A series of games or legs.
• Match Dart: A double thrown to win the match.
• Mugs Away: Loser of one game gets to play first in the next one.
• Nines: You guessed it, this means "19".
• Nine (9) - Dart - Finish: A perfect leg of darts, especially in tournament setting.
• Robin Hood: The special case of a dart sticking to another dart already on the board. Bragging rights included.
• Round: Any turn of a player throwing three darts.
• Shanghai: Both a variant of darts and the combo of having a dart in the single, double and triple area of the same number.
• Sixes: "16".
• Slop: Badly thrown dart. Still scoring, but not the score you were looking for.
• Splash: An unruly way of determining who goes first. You throw two darts at the same time, sometimes with your off-hand, and add up the score.
• Straight In: No double or triple needed to enter a game outright.
• Ton: Score of 100.
• Ton-Eighty: Score of 180, the highest possible score in a single turn, or round.
• Tops: Quick way of saying Double 20.
• Triple In / Triple Out: A triple throw is required to begin the game and to end it.

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• Phil Taylor has won 16 World Championship titles and 11 world Grand Prix titles. Grand Slams, Premier League titles, you name it. Ask anyone about darts and his name will be what they will answer first. A living legend of the sport.
• Michael van Gerwen has won five World Grand Prix titles, three World Championships and countless other prizes. All before the age of 31. Oh, and he threw a casual nine-dart finish one live TV back in 2012. When he basically still a baby.
• Eric Bristow was one of the strongest players of the late 1970s and early 1980s and won five World Masters in seven years. He was awarded an MBE for his efforts, but sadly died in 2018 already.
• John Lowe won the World Championship in three different decades. Let that sink in for a moment. He's also been credited with throwing the first-ever nine-darter on live TV.
• Dennis Priestley was Phil Taylor's biggest rival. Sadly, he never really managed to fight his way out of the former's shadow, not even when playing averages over 100 consistently.
• John Part was another strong rival to Phil Taylor, but saw fewer direct clashes with him. While he defeated him only once, in 2003, he was perhaps the strongest player statistically in North America for years.
• While Adrian Lewis has managed to win all World Championships that exist, you can't shake the feeling of him coming in second in so many bouts not being a skill issue.