What is the Basketball Slang in your city?
Every city has their own basketball jargon. Around the Chi area, these terms are common on the local courts:
Travelling is referred to as "steps"
A person who doesn't like to pass the ball is called a "gun", instead of other common names like "chucker" and "Ballhog"
A layup is called a "crip", so when guys are shooting layups before a game, it's called "shooting crips"
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Back home in Sweden we used to say following whenever someone shot the ball;
"Du
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[QUOTE=Tarik One]Every city has their own basketball jargon. Around the Chi area, these terms are common on the local courts:
[B]Travelling is referred to as "steps"[/B]
A person who doesn't like to pass the ball is called a "gun", instead of other common names like [B]"chucker" and "Ballhog"[/B]
A layup is called a "crip", so when guys are shooting layups before a game, it's called "shooting crips"[/QUOTE]
these arent unique to chicago
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A "Brick" here in Dublin is called a "potato"
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around here a nice dime is called a "quiver", a crossover is called a "round-the-way", to dunk is to "rally 'round the jerry" and coaches are "borgnines" umm thats about it really
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Probably not unique to New York City, but I was playing a bunch of black dudes once and my jumper was particularly wet that game. After hitting a bunch of them in quick succession, one of them went, "He got da ratchet." Again, perhaps not unique to my city, but "the ratchet" was something I'd never heard of before.
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Basketball in my country is called kos
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[QUOTE=chips93]these arent unique to chicago[/QUOTE]
He didn't say they were. The opposite in fact (as far as chucker and ballhog goes).
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Getting dunked on - you got yammed on. Somone is a good shooter - shooter is wet or jumpshot is wet. Someone crosses you up - he just broke you
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Not really baskeall game terms but more like names of mini games(horse, around the world). I lived in Cali, New Mexico, Texas and Colorado and the biggest difference is knock out(person befind you makes it, your out). Growing up in So Cal, we called it "lightning". Everywhere else, it was Knockout.