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Stick Save [Ice Hockey] A save made with the goaltender's stick.

Stick Side [Ice Hockey] The side on which the goaltender holds the stick; the opposite of glove side.

Stick-Handling [Ice Hockey] Carrying the puck on the stick while moving along the ice.

Sticker [Motor Sports] A new tire. Term comes from the manufacturer's stick-on label denoting the type of tire, price, etc..

Sticker Price [Motor Sports] The price of a vehicle found on the sticker attached to one of its windows. Generally, the MSRP.

Sticker Tires [Motor Sports] Tires that have never been run on a car, and still have the manufacturer's sticker on them

Stickers [Motor Sports] Brand-new tires with the manufacturer's label (or sticker) still on the surface. Teams generally use sticker tires during qualifying, then use scrubbed tires in a race. See scuffs or scrubbed tires.

Stickhandling [Ice Hockey] Moving the puck along the ice with the stick blade.

Stickman [Craps] The casino employee who calls out the dice rolls and returns the dice to the shooter. The stickman also is responsible for the placing and paying the proposition bets.

Sticky Rubber [Table Tennis] A type of rubber that allows the player to put a lot of spin on the ball.

Sticky Wicket [Croquet] Having a difficult approach to the wicket, or being stuck in the wicket.

Stiff [Wrestling] (noun) A wrestler who moves very stiffly in the ring and just doesn’t look good, or just an untalented wrestler. (adjective) Used to describe a move, such as a punch or a kick, that is delivered with such force that it looks especially realistic.

Stiff / Stiff Hand [Blackjack] 1. Any hand that could bust if drawn to. For example a hard 12-16. The stiff hands are hard totals of 12 through 16. 2. A reference to any dealer up card of 2 through 6, since we always assume a 10-value card in the hole. "The dealer was showing a stiff."

Stiff Arm (Or Straight Arm) [Football] A push by a ball carrier to ward off a tackler.

Stiff Chops [Wrestling] Hits or moves which cause real injury (though perhaps not more than a welting up of the opponent.) Big Van Vader has a reputation as a stiff worker. Not a shoot, but almost.

Stifle [Horse Racing] The large joint above the hock which is made up by the femur, the patella and the tibia.

Still Pack [Poker] The alternate deck, that is, the one not currently being dealt, in home games in which two decks are used. One deck is dealt while the other is being shuffled (by the shuffler) for the next deal.

Still Rings [Gymnastics] 1) A piece of apparatus consisting of a tower, 575 centimers high, from which two rings are suspended by a cable and straps. The cable and straps are 300 centimeters long and 50 centimeters apart. 2) A men's event performed on the apparatus. A routine includes a series of swings and holds, finishing with an acrobatic dismount. The rings must remain absolutely still and in the gymnast's control at the conclusion of each skill.

Stimpmeter [Golf] An instrument for measuring the speed of greens. It's a 30-inch aluminum trough raised to a 20-degree angle. A ball is placed in the top of the trough and released to roll down onto the green. The distance it rolls after leaving the trough is then converted to a Stimp reading.

Stimpmetre [Golf] Superintendents measure green speed with a stimpmetre. Its readings give a snapshot of the green speed at that time of day. Stimpmetre readings in the five to six range mean slow greens, seven to eight mean medium, nine to 10 fast and above 11 extremely fast - PGA Tournament speeds.

Stipes [Horse Racing] Another term for the Stewards. The correct term is stipendiary stewards, hence the shortened nick-name of stipes.

Stipulated Round [Golf] A round played on all 18 holes of a course in their numbered sequence.

Stirrup [Equestrian Sports] A loop or ring hung from the saddle that supports the rider's foot.

Stirrup Crossbow [Archery] A large crossbow with a stirrup for the foot, used to hold the crossbow steady when drawing the string, especially when two hands were necessary for winding the winch.

Stirrups [Horse Racing] Metal "D"-shaped rings into which a jockey places his/her feet. They can be raised or lowered depending on the jockey's preference. Also known as "irons."

Stitched Buffing Wheel [Golf] Type of wheel (approximately 6” in diameter) used, along with a bench grinder and Emery Cake, Tripoli or Rouge compounds, to polish stainless steel heads. The wheel is identified by its fibers stitched tightly together.

Stock [Skiing] Animals belonging to a farm that are rarely seen, but often spoken of, on Australian snowfields. Not to be confused with shares, dividends, and high finance (which are becoming less rare on Australian snowfields).

Stock Block [Motor Sports] An unmodified engine.

Stock Block Engine [Motor Sports] The definition of this term is rather vague. In most usages, it generally refers to an engine that is based on a production engine block design (specifically, that certain essential measurements of the block such as the cylinder-to-cylinder spacing or deck height are the same as on the production engine).

Stock Car Racing [Motor Sports] Started by NASCAR's founder, Bill France, in the 1940s. Initially meant track cars equipped with showroom parts. Today, few cars use stock parts. Most are built from custom parts, made especially for these race cars, that look like those in showrooms.

Stock Cars [Motor Sports] Cars based on the body and (sometimes) chassis of mass-produced street cars. Stock cars can range from no-modifications-allowed Showroom Stock and Hobby/Bomber classes, to the Winston Cup cars which run with stock body shapes and stock-block engines, but are otherwise purpose-built racing cars. Stock cars are mostly raced on ovals.

Stock Seat [Equestrian Sports] A division of western riding, in which the rider maneuvers the horse through livestock that are to be controlled, moved, or roped.

Stockings [Horse Racing] Solid white markings or a horse extending from the top of the hoof to the knee or hock.

Stolen Base [Baseball] Successfully advancing a base between pitches without the batter hitting the ball or getting a base on balls.

Stolen Base Percentage Allowed [Baseball] This figure indicates how successful opposing baserunners are when attempting a stolen base. It's stolen bases divided by stolen-base attempts.

Stolen Bases (Sb) [Baseball] Number of times a base runner successfully advances to the next base without the help of the hitter.

Stone [Curling] The round granite playing piece, 11 inches in diameter and 39 to 41 ½ pounds in weight, fitted with a handle.

Stone Bow [Archery] A bow which is used to shoot stones, pellets or balls. See Pellet bow.

Stones [Motor Sports] Old hard race tires that have long since lost their grip.

Stonewall [Poker] 1) A tight player. 2) Stiff ( A player who makes a practice of not tipping the dealers.).

Stonewall Jackson [Poker] 1) A tight player. 2) Stiff (A player who makes a practice of not tipping the dealers.).

Stoney. [Poker] Name for a tight player.

Stony [Golf] Descriptive of a shot hit very close to the flagstick.

Stop [Ice Hockey] A save; as a verb, to make a save.

Stop & go Penalty [Motor Sports] A type of penalty, which calls for the driver to drive the car to the pits, stop, and then immediately leave again.

Stop and Run [Bingo] 81

Stop Cut [Fencing] A stop-hit with the edge in sabre, typically to the cuff.

Stop Hit [Fencing] A counter-attack that hits; also a counter-attack whose touch is valid by virtue of its timing.

Stop Loss [Greyhound Racing] A level specified at which certain bets are automatically closed to prevent open ended loss or profit. [more]

Stop Shot [Croquet] By delivering an upward shot to the strikers ball during a croquet, the croqueted ball is sent a considerable distance and strikers ball barely moves.

Stop'n'go [Motor Sports] A penalty, usually assessed for speeding on pit road or for unsafe driving. The car must be brought onto pit road at the appropriate speed and stopped for one full second in the team's pit stall before returning to the track.

Stop-and-go Penalty [Motor Sports] A penalty which requires a driver to stop at their team's pit for a timed penalty before reentering the race. This penalty can be assessed for anything from speeding in the pits to contact with an opponent.

Stop-Swinging [Skiing] See swing to the hill.

Stopper [Soccer] The defender that marks the best scorer on the attacking team, often the opposition's striker; exists only in a man-to-man defense.

Stopper Knot [Sailing] A knot used in the end of a line to prevent the end from running through a block or other narrow space. Stopper knots prevent a line that slips from unthreading itself and getting lost.

Store [Poker] Joint (Card room; gambling establishment. Also called store or shop. Sometimes part of the phrase bust-out joint, carpet joint, juice joint, sawdust join).

Store, "the Store" [General] A Bookie.

Stores [Sailing] Supplies on a boat.

Storm Jib [Sailing] Sometimes called a spitfire. A small jib made out of heavy cloth for use in heavy weather. Sometimes brightly colored.

Storm Sail [Sailing] The storm jib and storm trysail. Small sails built from heavy cloth for use during heavy weather.

Storm Trysail [Sailing] A very strong sail used in stormy weather. It is loose footed, being attached to the mast, but not the boom. This helps prevent boarding waves from damaging the sail or the rigging.

Stormy Weather [Poker] A form of widow poker, played only in home games, in which each player is dealt four cards face down, and three cards are dealt face-up in the center. After a round of betting, each player can draw to his four-card hand. The dealer then turns up each of the widow cards one at a time, each followed by a round of betting. Each player may use (only) one of the cards as part of his hand. The game is sometimes played high-low split.

Stow [Sailing] To put something away.

Straddle [Poker] 1) Over blind (Put in a blind when one is already present. In a traveling blind game, this could mean someone putting in an optional blind in addition to the mandatory blinds. In a game without mandatory blinds, this would be blinding a pot (putting in a blind) after someone else has killed it. (To put in an over blind is sometimes called to kill.) Sometimes called go the overs.). 2) Over blind (The blind put in by the person who over blinds.). Someone might say, "John acts last; he has the straddle." 3) The second of two forced blinds, usually put in by the player two positions to the left of the dealer position. In former years, these two bets were called blind and straddle. Some say that definition 3 is the only proper use of the word straddle.

Straddle Game [Poker] 1) A traveling blind game, usually with three blinds. 2) A blind and straddle game.

Straddle Split [Gymnastics] A split in the straddle position.

Straddle Swing [Gymnastics] A swing movement in which the legs are extended to each side.

Straggler [Poker] A player who is able to come in light, that is, for a small call, such as in a pass-and-back-in game, when the pot has been opened in late position and not raised, so a player who passed earlier can now limp in (To enter the round by calling a bet rather than raising.); a player coming in in this situation is called a straggler.

Straight [Lotto] A way of betting a three or four digit number. In this bet the numbers must be drawn in the exact order that you bet them. So, for example, if you play the number 374 straight, the number drawn that night must be 3-7-4 for the bet to win. The normal three-digit payoff for such a bet is around $500 for a $1 bet; statistically, each three-digit number should be drawn once every 2.7 years. A $1 bet in the four-digit game is usually worth around $5,000; statistically, each four-digit number should be drawn once every 27.4 years.

Straight as a String [Horse Racing] Descriptive of a horse running at top speed.

Straight Bet [Roulette] A single wager on a single number. You place your bet squarely inside a number on the green. Make certain no chip crosses any of the lines. Pays 35-1.

Straight Croquet [Croquet] A shot in which the strikers ball goes half the distance of the croqueted ball.

Straight Draw [Poker] 1) "Normal" five-card-draw high poker, bet-or-fold before the draw, open on anything, that is, no opening requirements, as opposed to, for example, jacks or better. Also called guts-to-open, pass-out. 2) A hand that contains four cards to a straight.

Straight Flush [Poker] A hand consisting of five cards of consecutive ranks of the same suit. A straight flush is the strongest possible hand. Of two straight flushes, the one with the highest high card is better. An ace high straight flush is often called a royal flush or a royal straight flush, or just a royal.

Straight Forecast (Uk) [Greyhound Racing] A tote bet operating in races of 3 or more declared runners in which the punter has to pick the first and second to finish in the correct order. See 'Forcast'.

Straight Handle [Curling] Same as dead handle.

Straight Keno [Keno] The basic keno game, played by marking individual numbers on a keno ticket

Straight Limit [Poker] A form of limit poker (generally referring to draw poker, in particular limit draw or lowball as played in Northern California), in which all bets, before and after the draw, are in multiples of the same increment, as opposed to double limit, in which the limit doubles after the draw. For example, in the $20-limit game, all bets before and after the draw are $20, and multiples of $20 when players raise. Also called single limit.

Straight on Through [Bingo] 82

Straight Out [General] Betting on a competitor to win an event. Also win only, or money line betting.

Straight Poker Dictionary [Poker] 1) An early form of poker, in which players received five cards, and bet on their original cards, in much the same as draw poker, but there was no draw. 2) Five card draw poker, high, with no wild cards.

Straight Running [Skiing] Descending directly down the fall-linewith skis parallel.

Straight Six [Horse Racing] You have to correctly select the winner of six consecutive nominated races. There are some huge collects available if you can!

Straight Ticket [Keno] The standard or basic ticket sold by a casino.

Straight Triple Peel [Croquet] Doing three peels with the backward ball making the same three wickets.

Straight Up [Poker] Pertaining to honest play; on the square. A former thief may tell a friend, "I don't need any edge [dishonest advantage]; I can beat this game straight up." The manager of a card room may say to a player whom the former knows to be capable (that is, has the ability to cheat), "You can play in here only if you play straight up."

Straight Up Bet [Roulette] A single wager on a single number. You place your bet squarely inside a number on the green. Make certain no chip crosses any of the lines. Pays 35-1.

Straight-Faced [Golf] Refers to a club with little or no loft on the face.

Straightaway [Motor Sports] Just as it sounds; the long straight stretch of a race course. Typically where the highest speed is attained.

Straightening [Poker] In high draw, drawing to a straight.

Straighting [Poker] In high draw, drawing to a straight.

Strakes [Sailing] A row of wooden planks on the hull of a wooden boat.

Strange [Poker] Money other than one player's bet. That is, if a player puts $6 into a pot and the pot has $20 altogether, the pot holds $14 strange or $14 strange money.

Strange Money [Poker] Money other than one player's bet. That is, if a player puts $6 into a pot and the pot has $20 altogether, the pot holds $14 strange or $14 strange money.

Stranger [Poker] 1) In draw poker, a card one hasn't seen in one's hand after the draw, while shuffling through the entire hand. When a player is squeezing his hand, and finds one of the cards he drew, he may say, "There's a stranger." This quotation sometimes implies a card that improves the hand. 2) A player unknown to the regulars in a game.

Strapper [Horse Racing] A groom, the person who assists the trainer, cares for the horse or helps to put on its equipment. Also known as an attendant.

Strategic Bluff [Poker] A planned bluff, as opposed to one made on the spur of the moment.

Strategy [Video Poker] A pattern or method for playing the hands.

Strategy Card [Video Poker] A Strategy Card is a Strategy Table printed on a card. It's a good idea to have a strategy card with you while playing. You can buy strategy cards for most any available video poker game on the Internet.

Strategy Number [Blackjack] The count number used to determine the point at which a variation from basic strategy may be made in the game of blackjack.

Strategy Table [Video Poker] A Strategy Table is a list of the hands you might be dealt in decreasing order of Average Payback. If you can play a hand in two or more different ways, then you pick the highest in the strategy table - the one with the highest Average Payback.

Strategy(Strat) [Wrestling] A written plan for how you would like the match to play out.

Straw-Man [General] A front man.

Streak [Blackjack] A series of wins or losses. A whole sector of blackjack-theory is devoted to the quest of identifying streaks before they occur, in violation of all natural & scientific laws.

Streamer [Skydiving] A malfunction in which the slider gets stuck on the top of the suspension lines and prevents the canopy from being fully expanded. Calls for immediate reserve pull unless frapping is desired.

Street [Poker] The cards that come out one at a time in a card game are sometimes referred to as different numbered streets. The door card in seven card stud is third street, and subsequent cards are numbered consecutively. In hold'em and other flop games, players sometimes refer to the turn and river as fourth and fifth street.

Street Bet [Roulette] A bet that one of three particular numbers will hit on the next spin. You place your bets on the outside line of the green, indicating that you are betting the three numbers opposite the chips going across the layout.

Street Circuit [Motor Sports] A road course made up partly or wholly of partitioned-off city streets.

Street Equipment [Motor Sports] Equipment generally required by law or needed for legal street operation: license plates, windshield wipers, horns, lights, etc.

Strela [Archery] Russian for arrow.

Stress (Fracture) [Horse Racing] A fracture produced by the stress created by a repetitive loading cycle on the bone, commonly found in athletic training. Usually seen in the front of the cannon bone as a severe form of bucked shins. Also seen in the tibia and causes a hard-to-diagnose hind limb lameness.

Stretch [Wrestling] N. a form of shoot where one wrestler dominates rather than injures the other as a proof of personal superiority.

Stretch Call [Horse Racing] The position of the race animals at designated pole markers, dependent upon the length of the race.

Stretch Runner [Horse Racing] Horse that runs its fastest nearing the finish of a race.

Stretch Turn [Horse Racing] Bend of track into the final straightaway.

Stretcher [Rowing] A set of two inclined foot rests that hold each rower's shoes.

Stride [Skiing] A movement of sliding one ski forwards and applying pressure onto it by a weight shift, followed by a resultant glide.

Stride Double-Poling [Skiing] A stride onto one foot, followed by a double pole action. In its simpler form, this is repeated onto the same foot each time, but to balance the work performed by the legs, alternate foot striding is used by advanced skiers.

Stride Length [Skiing] The distance travelled between one stride and the next (not the distance between each foot in a given stride).

Striding [Equestrian Sports] A single, coordinated movement of all four of the horse's legs, after which the legs return to their starting position.

Strike [Baseball] A strike is called if a batter swings at a pitch and misses, or if the pitch simply passes through the strike zone. The first 2 foul balls that are not caught count as first and second strike. A foul ball that is not caught can never be counted as a third strike.

Strike Off [Golf] To drive from the tee.

Strike Out [Baseball] When a batter swings and misses three pitchers, receives three pitches within the strike zone without swinging, or a combination of the two. The batter is declared out. Foul balls are counted as strikes, except for the third strike, which either must be a swing-and-a-miss or looking.

Strike Out (So) [Baseball] Number of times a batter swings and misses on three pitches.

Strike Rate [General] The ratio between winners and loses

Strike Split [Bowling] A split that results from what was apparently a strike hit. Usually the 8-10 split for a right-handed bowler and the 7-9 for a lefty.

Strike Zone [Baseball] The area in which a pitched ball is ruled a strike is covered horizontally by the width of the plate, and vertically by the distance between the player’s knees and chest. More exactly the top limit is to be a horizontal line that is halfway between the top of the shoulders and the top of the uniform pants. The bottom limit is a horizontal line at the hallow just beneath the kneecap.

Striker [Croquet] The player whose turn it is. Turns are determines by the color of the balls: blue, red, black, yellow (green, orange). A strike is the actual hitting of the ball with the mallet.

Striking Circle [Field Hockey] See goal circle.

String [Poker] Holdout machine (A mechanical device enabling thieves to surreptitiously hold out. Holdout machines used to be more popular many years ago, but are not often seen now, probably because thieves are becoming more sophisticated, and also because being caught with one is dangerous. Also called a string.).

String Bet [Poker] An unethical and often illegal means of raising whereby a player puts a call-size stack of chips into the pot and, after observing the reactions of the players, then goes back to his stack and puts out more, thus raising.

Stringer [Archery] [1] An aid to stringing a bow. [2] A maker or seller of bowstrings.

Stringing [Motor Sports] A procedure for checking the toe of the front wheels. Basically, it consists of running a string down the side of the car; with the steering wheel pointed straight ahead, the distance between the front edge of the wheel and the string, and the rear edge of the wheel and the string, is then measured; the difference between the two distances gives the toe angle.

Strip [Poker] Trim the sides or edges of cards, to make them identifiable by feel to a thief. This produces strippers.

Strip Poker Dictionary [Poker] A form of poker, generally played in mixed company, in which players use articles of clothing to purchase chips. As players need more chips, they must remove clothing; sometimes (rarely) the winners put those articles on. In some versions of the game, in each hand, all but the winner of the pot must remove one article of clothing; the drawback to this is the lack of an ante, unless players ante with clothing, in which case a disproportionate value is placed on any one article of clothing. This form of poker is not really related to the true nature of poker, whose goal is, for each player, to win money; the underlying nature of strip poker is to get almost everyone naked.

Strip Rules [Blackjack] A set of rules, once prevalent in Las Vegas Strip casinos, where a Dealer stands on soft 17 (S17), Player is allowed to DOA ( double on anything), Player is not allowed to DAS ( no double down after split), Pair splitting is allowed up to 4 hands, No RSA ( no re-splitting of aces) allowed. It is of course assumed that the other common rules also apply: Insurance offered, Dealer collects only original bets, Split aces receive only 1 card, Ace-Ten after splitting aces counts as simple 21. "Strip rules" can be used for brevity when describing a casino's distinct rules, as in "Casino X has Strip rules with DAS".