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| Dogi [Martial Arts] |
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Japanese term for a martial arts uniform.
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| Dogleg [Golf] |
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A left or right bend in the fairway
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| Dogma [Skiing] |
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Stated as indisputable fact, a tenet.
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| Dogs [Horse Racing] |
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Rubber traffic cones (or a wooden barrier) placed at certain distances out from the inner rail, when the track is wet, muddy, soft, yielding or heavy, to prevent horses during the workout period from churning the footing along the rail. Used in the phrase The dogs are up, or simply, dogs up.
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| Dogu [Martial Arts] |
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Tools, equipment, or instruments used in martial arts practice.
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| Dohc [Motor Sports] |
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Double overhead camshafts.
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| Dohyo [Martial Arts] |
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A circular ring, fifteen feet in diameter, in which sumo contests are conducted.
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| Dohyo Iri [Martial Arts] |
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The ceremonial entry of the sumo champions into the arena.
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| Dojang [Martial Arts] |
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"Training hall" or "gymnasium." Any facility in which the Korean martial arts are practiced.
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| Dojo [Martial Arts] |
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Exercise Hall, place where one practises martial arts, litterally « the place where one learns the way »
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| Dojo Kun [Martial Arts] |
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The dojo principles
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| Dokyu [Archery] |
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A Japanese repeating crossbow.
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| Dollar [Poker] |
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$100 or a $100 bill.
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| Dolly Parton [Poker] |
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In hold 'em, 9-5 as one's first two cards. From the movie, 9 to 5, in which she starred.
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| Dolphin [Synchro Swimming] |
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A move in which the swimmer, from a horizontal position on the surface, submerges headfirst and swims down and under, re-emerging at the original location.
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| Dolphin Arch [Synchro Swimming] |
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A position in which the body is arched so that the head, hips and feet conform to the arc.
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| Dome Dong [Baseball] |
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Home run hit in a domed stadium
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| Domestique [Cycling] |
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The team rider in a long race who's responsible for getting food, water, and other from the support vehicle and distributing them to his teammates.
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| Dominate [Poker] |
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A starting hand that will almost always beat another starting hand is said to dominate that hand. For example, in hold'em, AK dominates K2. Most of the time K2 makes a playable hand, AK will make a better hand. However, a 2 might still spoil the party
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| Dominated [Poker] |
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The situation in hold 'em of one hand being significantly ahead of the other, usually because of having the same card in common plus a higher card. For example, king-queen off suit is dominated by ace-king off suit
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| Dominated Hand [Poker] |
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A hand that will almost always lose to a better hand that people usually play. For instance, K3 is "dominated" by KQ. With the exception of strange flops (e.g. 3-3-x, K-3-x), it will always lose to KQ
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| Don't Come [Craps] |
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The reverse of Come. You're betting that 7 will come up before the shooters point.
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| Don't Come Bet [Craps] |
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A wager against the dice placed after the come-out roll.
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| Don't Come Box [Craps] |
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The area on the layout where a don't come bet is made.
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| Don't Pass [Craps] |
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A bet made on the come-out roll that the dice will not pass.
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| Don't Pass Bet [Craps] |
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A bet that the dice will not pass. This bet can be placed only immediately before a "come out" roll. One result (either the 2 or the 12, depending on the casino) will result in a push. House edge on these bets is 1.40%. A Don't Pass bet can be taken down, but not increased, after the come-out roll.
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| Donate [Poker] |
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Put chips into a pot that one doesn't expect to get back. "Oh, you raised it again? Okay, I'll donate."
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| Donation [Poker] |
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Put chips into a pot that one doesn't expect to get back. "Oh, you raised it again? Okay, I'll donate."
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| Donut [Baseball] |
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Circular shaped weight that slides over the bat. The weight is used when a player is loosening up in the one deck circle.
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| Donuts [Motor Sports] |
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Slang term for black, circular, dent-line marks on the side panels of stock cars, usually caused after rubbing against other cars at high speed.
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| Don’t Come Bet [General] |
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A bet placed on the Don’t Come Bar. Same rules as the Don’t Pass Line, except placed after the come-out roll.
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| Don’t Pass Bet [General] |
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A wager placed prior to the Come-Out Roll that a seven will be rolled before a point is repeated.
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| Don’t Pass Line [Craps] |
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The area on the layout where Don’t Pass bets are placed.
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| Door [Poker] |
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1) Door card. 2) The door position in a hand. "I can see what he's got in the door." Also window.
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| Door Card [Poker] |
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A player's first up card in stud games.
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| Door Jam [Skydiving] |
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The practice of taking up starting positions in the door, on the ground before or after boarding, before the aircraft begins moving.
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| Dope [Motor Sports] |
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Slang term for the homebrew fuel mixtures that were used in Indy car racing in the '20s and '30s. In the days when available gasoline was very low in octane, teams often mixed their own gas so that they could run higher compression ratios. However, this quickly evolved into the use of weird and unstable mixtures containing volatile high-energy fuels and oxidizers (for instance, a mix of gasoline, benzene, ether, and nitric acid). Homebrewed dopes were phased out after WWII and most engine builders switched to methanol at that time, but exotic fuels weren't totally banned until 1965.
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| Doped Cards [Poker] |
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Cards marked on the back with some sort of liquid, such as ink, bleach, and sometimes even water.
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| Dorade Vent [Sailing] |
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A type of vent designed to let air into a cabin and keep water out by the use of baffles.
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| Dormie [Golf] |
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The situation, in match play, in which a golfer is ahead by as many holes as are left to play. If that golfer wins just one of the remaining holes, the match is over.
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| Dorsal [Horse Racing] |
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Up; toward the back or spine. Also used to describe the front of the lower limb below the knee (front) or hock (rear).
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| Dorsal Displacement of the Soft Palate [Horse Racing] |
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A condition in which the soft palate, located on the floor of the airway near the larynx, moves up into the airway. A minor displacement causes a gurgling sound during exercise while in more serious cases the palate can block the airway. This is sometimes known as "choking down," but the tongue does not actually block the airway. The base of the tongue is connected to the larynx, of which the epiglottis is a part. When the epiglottis is retracted, the soft palate can move up into the airway (dorsal displacement.) This condition can sometimes be managed with equipment such as a figure eight noseband or a tongue tie. In more extreme cases, surgery might be required, most commonly a "myectomy."
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| Dosage [Horse Racing] |
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Although there are actually many "Dosage theories," the one most commonly thought of as Dosage is the one as interpreted by Dr. Steven Roman. A variation of Dr. Franco Varola's work on pedigree analysis, the system identifies patterns of ability in horses based on a list of prepotent sires, each of whom is a chef-de-race. The Dosage system puts these sires into one of five categories brilliant, intermediate, classic, solid and professional, which quantify speed and stamina. Sires can be listed in up to two chef-de-race categories. Each generation of sires is worth 16 points, divided up by the amount of sires, i.e., the immediate sire is worth 16 points while the four sires four generations back are worth four points apiece.
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| Dosage Diagram [Horse Racing] |
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A diagram showing the number and placement of chefs-de-race in a horse's pedigree.
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| Dosage Index [Horse Racing] |
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Mathematical reduction of the Dosage Diagram to a number reflecting a horse's potential for speed or stamina.
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| Dosage Index (Di) [Horse Racing] |
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A mathematical reduction of the Dosage profile to a number reflecting a horse's potential for speed or stamina. The higher the number, the more likely the horse is suited to be a sprinter. The average Dosage index of all horses is about 4.0.
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| Dosage Profile [Horse Racing] |
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A listing of Dosage points by category. Used to develop the Dosage index (DI).
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| Doshu [Martial Arts] |
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Master" or "master of the way.
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| Dot (Usually Pronounced as "Dot Tires") [Motor Sports] |
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Used to refer to street-legal tires that can be purchased by the public, as opposed to racing tires. Many lower-cost forms of racing require use of DoT tires.
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| Dot Punch [Golf] |
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A series of circular indentations or dots on the face of an iron head in place of lines. Dot Punch patterns may be arranged much like lines or may be in a more circular pattern. They are most common on wedges.
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| Dots [Bowling] |
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Markers on the runway that guide the bowler's approach.
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| Double [Lotto] |
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A daily 3- or 4-digit number that contains two of the same digit. Examples: 122, 353, 1451, 3321. There are 90 boxed double combinations in the three-digit game and one should show up every 4 days. Since there are few double numbers, the payouts are usually much higher. Four-digit doubles come up every 2.5 days and there are 360 possible boxed combinations.
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| Double Action [General] |
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An "if bet" that is processed if the precedent bet wins, ties or cancels.
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| Double Ante [Poker] |
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In double-limit draw, pertaining to the hand following an unopened pot, in which each player adds an additional ante to the pot, and so the pot contains two antes from each.
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| Double Axel [Figure Skating] |
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An Axel on which the skater performs 2 1/2 revolutions.
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| Double Banking [Croquet] |
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Playing two games simultaneously on the same course due to time or space restrictions. The games are completely separate.
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| Double Belly Buster [Poker] |
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1) A five-card combination with two "holes," such that any of eight cards can make it into a straight. For example, 5-7-8-9-J; any 6 or 10 makes this into a straight. Such a combination is possible in stud or hold 'em-type games. Also called double gut shot. 2) A three-card combination with two "holes," such that two perfect inside straight cards are required, such as 3-5-7, which needs a 4 and a 6 to make a straight.
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| Double Bet [General] |
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A wager for twice the size of one's usual wager.
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| Double Bogey [Golf] |
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A score of 2 over the designated par for a hole.
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| Double Camber [Skiing] |
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A double arch built into some skis, typically used in cross country rather than Alpine skiing. Both the weight-bearing area beneath the bindings and the tips of the skis are slightly raised so there's less surface area in contact with the snow when the skier is gliding. See also Alpine camber; Nordic camber.
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| Double Carpet [Horse Racing] |
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UK slang for Odds of 33 to 1, based on 'Carpet'.
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| Double Deck [Blackjack] |
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A form of 21 where two decks are shuffled together and dealt out of the hand. The forms of 21 are: single deck, double deck, and four, six, or eight deck shoe.
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| Double Defeat [Fencing] |
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If both fencers have received the same number of hits after time has expired in an epee competition, a defeat is scored against each of them.
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| Double Down / Doubling Down [Blackjack] |
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To double the size of one's initial bet before taking one more card. Once a player doubles down, the player may receive only one more card. Usually, but not always, a player may only double down after receiving the first two cards. Occasionally, a casino may allow players to double down after receiving three or more cards. Normally, the player places a bet equal to the size of the original bet next to the original bet in the betting square to let the dealer know he wishes to double down. He does this by placing an amount which may be less than, or equal to (but may not exceed) the original stake, behind his initial bet. In some casinos the player may double down after splitting and in some casinos the player may only double on 10 or 11. The blackjack chart tells you when this is a good idea. For example, if you have a hard 10 and the dealer's up card is a bust card, let's say a 5, you would want to double down. You have a good chance of drawing an 8, 9, or 10, which is a hard hand for the dealer to beat. And there's an equally good chance that the dealer will go bust. A player may "Double Down" on any two cards except "Blackjack". If the dealer gets a "Blackjack", only the original bet will lose. If the player is playing in a game where the cards are held by the players, he places his cards face up in front of the betting square and the dealer places a third card either face-down under the player's bet or face up on the player's existing cards, usually at an angle opposite to the cards already in play.
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| Double Dribble [Basketball] |
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A violation in which a player resumes dribbling after having stopped a dribble series, or dribbles the ball with both hands simultaneously.
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| Double Eagle [Golf] |
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A score of three under par for a single hole. Same as "albatross"
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| Double Elimination [Croquet] |
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Tournament in which alone two matches before being eliminated.
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| Double Exposure 21 [Blackjack] |
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A blackjack game in which both dealer cards are shown to the player (before) he plays his hand. Other house rules are usually changed, such as players losing pushes, and blackjacks are paid even money to restore the advantage the house loses by exposing the dealer's hole card.
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| Double Fault [Tennis] |
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A situation where the server has failed to serve correctly on both attempts, i.e. the first and second serve. The server loses the point.
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| Double Flip [Freestyle Skating] |
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Two flips done in rapid succession.
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| Double Foul [Basketball] |
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The situation in which opponents commit simultaneous fouls against one another. A jump ball is held between the two players. Compare false double foul; multiple foul.
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| Double Full [Freestyle Skating] |
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A layout flip with two twists.
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| Double Full Full Full [Freestyle Skating] |
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A sequence of three flips with four twists, including two on the first flip.
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| Double Gutshot [Poker] |
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Variation of Double Belly Buster. A draw to a broken sequence of cards, in which either of two cards will make the straight.
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| Double Header [General] |
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Two separate baseball games played on the same day for the same two teams.
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| Double Hit [Table Tennis] |
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A shot on which the ball contacts a player's paddle or paddle hand twice; results in loss of point.
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| Double Hole [Water Polo] |
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Descriptive of an of an offense that stations an attacker in front of each post of the goal; also known as double post.
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| Double Indemnity Moves [Wrestling] |
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Punches and kicks which seem to do little damage throughout the course of a match seem to hurt that much more and are always able to disorient or render an opponent motionless when delivered right before a particularly silly finishing move (ie., the worm or the people's elbow). - [email protected].
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| Double Inside Straight Flush [Video Poker] |
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Three cards in the same suit in a broken sequence with two gaps, or in a closed-ended sequence with or without gaps. Exactly two of the remaining cards in the deck will complete a Straight Flush. Example: 4h-A-6h-K-8h.
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| Double Jackpot [Poker] |
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A period of time in a card room that has progressive jackpots for getting certain hands beat (for example, aces full in a hold 'em game) during which the posted payouts are doubled. Usually double jackpot times are at times that otherwise have lower attendance than others, with such promotions being to increase patronage.
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| Double Layout [Freestyle Skating] |
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A sequence of two flips in the layout position.
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| Double Limit [Poker] |
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Limit draw or lowball as played in Southern California, with bets at one limit before the draw, and bets at twice that limit after the draw. For example, in the $2-$4 game, all bets before the draw are $2, and multiples of $2 when players raise; all bets after the draw are $4, and multiples of $4 when players raise. Sometimes called Gardena-style.
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| Double Minor [Ice Hockey] |
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A type of minor penalty given for certain accidental infractions that result in an injury to another player; penalty time of 4 minutes is served, double the time of a normal minor penalty.
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| Double Nuts [Poker] |
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In any high-low game, having both the best possible low and high. In a community card game, this means the best possible based on the cards showing. For example, in Omaha, with 3-4-5-K-Q of mixed suits (no three cards of the same suit) on the board, the nut low would be A-2 and the nut high 6-7, so a player having A-2-6-7 would have nut-nut. With A-2-3-3-K on the board, a player holding nut-nut would have 3-3-4-5, four treys for high and a wheel for low. The term is also sometimes more loosely used for hands that are nut low, near-nut (but obviously unbeaten) high.
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| Double Odds [Craps] |
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An odd bet that is about twice as large as the original pass/come bet. Some casinos offer higher odds, such as 5x or even 10x odds.
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| Double Odds Bet [Craps] |
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A free odds bet made at double the original Pass Line, Don’t Pass Line, Come or Don’t Come wager after the come out roll.
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| Double Off [Poker] |
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Perform a form of cheating wherein two good hands are dealt, the better going to the dealer or his accomplice. In this case, the sucker has been doubled off.
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| Double Out [General] |
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A variation of the "Round Robin" bet, on three selections 3 "Up and Down Double Stakes" bets, a "Round-about" and three doubles and a treble, 13 bets in all.
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| Double Peel [Croquet] |
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A ball knocked through two wickets in the same turn, but not not necessarily on the same stroke.
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| Double Play [Baseball] |
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A defensive play that gets two players out on the same play. This usually occurs when there is a player on first and the ball is thrown from the fielder to second (shortstop or second baseman covers) and quickly to first to get both base runners out. Also frequently occurs when the batter hits a line-drive and the defensive player catches the ball (1 out) and throws the ball to the offensive players base, and beats them back (2nd out).
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| Double Post [Basketball] |
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An offensive set-up in which two players, typically the center and the power forward, are in post positions. They usually start in low post positions, one on each side of the basket, with one of them sometimes coming out to the high post as the ball moves around.
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| Double Pump [Basketball] |
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Two fake shots in rapid succession. Also used as a verb.
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| Double Qualifier [Poker] |
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A high-low split game with a qualifier for both low and high, such as seven-card stud high-low, with, for example, the requirement that low is awarded only to an 8-low hand or better and that high is awarded only to a two-pair hand or better. If neither qualifier exists, rules vary as to what happens to the pot.
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| Double Roll [Croquet] |
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A shot in which the strikers ball rolls the same distance as the roquets ball.
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| Double Shuffle [Poker] |
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A cheating move, a method of appearing to shuffle the cards without actually disturbing their order.
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| Double Sided Tape [Golf] |
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Also known as “two-way tape” or “grip tape”, special tape (3/4” or 2” wide) that is adhesive on both sides. Applied to the shaft, one side holds the tape to the shaft; the other, when activated with solvent, secures the grip to the shaft.
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| Double Tap [Croquet] |
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A fault in which the strikers ball is hit twice in the same shot.
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| Double Team [Basketball] |
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To guard one opponent with two defenders. Also used as a noun.
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| Double Through [Poker] |
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Going all-in against an opponent in order to double your stack if you win the hand.
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| Double Time [Fencing] |
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Descriptive of a parry or riposte performed as two distinct actions.
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| Double Twist [Gymnastics] |
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A single layout flip with two twists.
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| Double Up [Poker] |
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1) Go all in and win the pot. "I was down to my last $100 when I doubled up." "He had a better six than I did and I doubled him up." 2) Go half and half with a player on his buy-in to a game; usually preceded by go; sometimes followed by up. When the player quits, he splits with the person with whom he went cow. Sometimes the house goes cow with a player to enable him to get into a larger game than he could otherwise afford, generally with the no altruistic purpose of filling what would otherwise be a shaky game. At some point when the player (the house hopes) gets far enough ahead of the game, the house may split him out, that is, remove half of his chips and put him on his own.
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| Double Wishbone Suspension [Motor Sports] |
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A type of independent suspension in which the upper and lower support pieces, or members, look somewhat like a wishbone.
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| Double Zero [Roulette] |
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Number on the wheel. Green in color. Can be wagered the same way as numbers 1-36.
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| Double' [Fencing] |
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An attack or riposte that describes a complete circle around the opponent's blade, and finishes in the opposite line.
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| Double-Ace Flush [Poker] |
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In draw poker, a flush topped by an ace and a joker. In some clubs, such a flush used to rank higher than any other flush, but that is not very common. For example, ace-joker-10-8-7 of clubs is equivalent in most card rooms to A-K-10-8-7 and does not beat A-K-Q-9-7 of hearts; in some clubs, though, it used to. Even though this is not a ranking hand in most clubs, you still hear the term applied to a flush with an ace and a joker in it.
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| Double-Barreled Shotgun [Poker] |
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A form of poker, a cross between draw and stud. Each player starts with three cards; there is a round of betting; each player receives another card; another round of betting; each player receives a fifth card; another round of betting; then each player draws cards as in draw poker; then each player exposes one card; another round of betting; further cards are exposed, each followed by a round of betting, until each player has but one card face down. The game is played high-low split, and, prior to the showdown, there is a chip declaration. This game has eight rounds of betting, or nine if there is a bet after the declare, and is generally played only in home games. It is sometimes called Texas Tech or Wild Annie.
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| Double-Braid [Sailing] |
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A line consisting of a braided inner core and a braided outer sheath.
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| Double-Cover Ball [Golf] |
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A ball with a large central core surrounded by two thinner materials, one of them being the cover. The purpose of the additional cover is to add spin on shorter shots for control and to reduce spin on longer shots for distance.
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| Double-Dealing [Poker] |
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A cheating move in which a dealer gives more cards (usually two at a time rather than one) to his confederate or himself than to the other players. The presumption is the player with more than the requisite number of cards will form his best five-card hand, and then get rid of the one or more excess cards (clean up). The phrase has passed into general usage meaning cheating someone or the public in general
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| Double-Discard [Poker] |
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A cheating move in which a player in a draw game who has more cards than he needs (presumably because he asked for more cards than he discarded) gets rid of the extra card. For example, a cheater throws two cards away, but asks for three. He must, before the showdown, get rid of that extra card. That move is the double-discard.
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| Double-Double [Lotto] |
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A four-digit number made up of two doubles. Examples: 1221, 3344, 9797. There are only 45 of these boxed combinations in the game; a Double-Double should appear every 37 days. Double-Double hits, because of their rarity, yield much higher payouts per dollar bet.
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| Double-Draw London Lowball [Poker] |
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A form of London lowball draw with two draws, instead of the usual one in ordinary lowball, and thus having three betting rounds, usually played pot limit
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| Double-End Straight [Poker] |
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Four cards to a straight which can be completed by drawing a card at either end.
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| Double-Ended Straight [Poker] |
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Four cards to a straight which can be completed by drawing a card at either end.
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| Double-Ender [Sailing] |
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A boat with a pointed stern. Known as a double-ender because the stern may look very similar to the bow.
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| Double-Flop Hold 'em [Poker] |
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A new Nevada poker game, hold 'em in which two sets of three cards are turned over after the first round of betting, and then two more to each flop, one at a time. Players can form two different hands in combination with their two hole cards plus enough cards from each flop to form a five-card hand. (Cards cannot be combined from the two flops.) This usually produces two winners per hand, although sometimes the same hand wins both halves of the pot.
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