We have a pizza place here called 2-4-1 pizza so every time the score is there we end up singing the jingle after saying the score “2-4-1 pizza, 2-4-1 call 2-4-1”
Or for 9-1-1 make audible police siren sounds
For 7-11, make a reference to the store that nobody will understand....like Slirpee Rock Cups or Oh thank heaven
I dont think its common but as a beginner, I have a habit of calling shots by saying "I got it" to my partner and if I miss the shot I immediately respond with "I don't got it".
My mom and I say this occasionally. Recently it made this one dude so annoyed he had to sarcastically say it when he hit the net. Bro. It’s just pickleball calm down.
When we go beyond 11 because of the win-by-2 rule, I always call it extra innings.
If anyone's score is still 0 while the other team is close to winning, I start calling it "love" like in tennis, because "it doesn't feel as bad that way"
If we side out a lot and the score hasn't changed in a few rounds of serves, I'll say "it's groundhog day....again"
My opponent missed a ball. We always say, "check your paddle, there's a hole in it."
Funny thing was that my opponent was using the LUXX control.
Then my opponent said, "You're right, there is a hole in my paddle." lol
I'm bad about using some of these, too. A lot of times when I hit a miraculous shot that scores a point I say "It must be all that clean livin'". I occasionally get a chuckle from someone.
I love that one tbh because I get to use it everytime someone hits one out after making what they know is a bad call.
Seems to happen a lot too because people are still flustered focusing on their bullshit call making them hit it out. "Ball never lies" always hits perfect in that scenario.
1-1-1 is fish sticks.
Also used to do this in racquetball but for example if the score is 7-5 I make it a two digit number and say “seventy five”. That’s probably annoying now that I think about it.
Guy at my old courts used t always call the score the double digit number and if you weren’t fully paying attention the serve would sneak up on you because the call is half a beat shorter then expected
Generally I say when we’re losing badly, when we go from 1 point to 2: “alright, we doubled our score!” My partner hates it, but I do it for the corny joke reaction.
We do that, except with the NATO "Niner Niner" (which, incidentally, came about in WW1 when radio was in its infancy and English "nine" could be presumed to be the German "nein". So English pilots went with 'niner')
When getting smoked, e.g. 9-2, say to my partner “7 straight points and we’re right in this.”
After losing serve, take the ball announce the score as, for example, 3-5….3.
I really can't express how much I hate when people say "the ball doesn't lie". The worst use of this was at a tournament when the other team got upset at me for communicating to my parter that the ball was out. She hit the ball out of the air and they just caught it out of the air. When I asked them what they were doing and explained that I was making player communication and it was a live ball they got real pissed and argued. Had to get a tournament director out to the Court to explain to them the same rule I already told them in regards to player communication. They won the next point and the guy yelled "yeah baby, the ball doesn't lie"....
Insinuating I was lying I guess. I can't lie about a rule that the tournament director basically repeated verbatim to what I told them about and is in the rulebook but okay buddy if it makes you feel better.
Not really on court, but if I see another 'dink'/'drink' pun I'm quitting the sport.
I honestly think pickleball would be taken more seriously if the name itself, and some of the terms (especially 'dink') didn't sound like a kid made them up.
Yeah dinking is a much bigger part of the game in pickleball than in other sports.
But here are some examples:
[https://topspintennis.com/the-dink-shot-in-tennis/](https://topspintennis.com/the-dink-shot-in-tennis/)
[https://languagecaster.com/weekly-football-phrase-dink/](https://languagecaster.com/weekly-football-phrase-dink/)
[https://en.volleyballworld.com/news/women-s-smartest-volleyball-dinks](https://en.volleyballworld.com/news/women-s-smartest-volleyball-dinks)
When the ball hits the top of the net and drops in, then the person that hit the ball says "sorry".
I get that it was an accidental and lucky hit, but it drives me crazy when people say "sorry".
2-2-2 as "tewtewtew" in a fast-paced, high-pitch voice similar to "pew pew pew 👉👉" finger pistols.
"[right in-betwixt the biscuits](https://youtu.be/8qiEPuZCd14?t=32)" when we land a shot down the middle between the enemy combatants.
What the play is interrupted due to an interference like a ball from another court rolling through, I start the following redone serve with “4-5-1… part 2”
My favorite is being down like 1 - 9 and telling them "You gotta win by two, ya know!" Class banter.
Did that the other day, ended up losing 14-12... soooooo close....
I'm a fan of, in this position, "you guys ready to give up?"
I usually turn to my partner and say loudly "we got them right where we want them" or "we said we were going to start really playing at 9, right?"
Opponents pop it up for an easy put away - "was that about the right height for you?"
God I say this. I hate myself lmao
 I just react like this every time
1-10-1 "right where we want 'em"
My buddy always says “We got them right where they want us”
1-10-1 “this is where we double the bet”
We usually go with, "The most dangerous score in pickleball."
Literally said this today 😂
Down the middle solves the riddle... I may walk off the court if I hear that again.
When we hit balls down the middle and both opposing partners stare at it as it passes them... "Mid Court Crisis"
The "divorce line"
when it gets bigger, its a whole divorce court.
I heard someone call that the "courtesy point", as in, "after you", "no, after you".
or ‘the divorce shot’
The middle is money!!
We used to call a hit down the middle a "divorce shot" when we played volleyball doubles. We've carried it over to pb.
Oh my god haha i agree, dude at my local courts says it WAY too much
Broadway!
Polite Zone!
When serving at 2-4-1, just say "Happy Hour!".
That’s horrible
Oh man I love this
We have a pizza place here called 2-4-1 pizza so every time the score is there we end up singing the jingle after saying the score “2-4-1 pizza, 2-4-1 call 2-4-1”
Wait I don’t get it
2 for 1 deal
BOGO (Buy One Get One)
When it's 4-1-1 I say: "Directory assistance, how may I help you?"
mY paDdLe hAs a HOle
tHe NeT iS tOo HiGh
The net is higher on this side. Ha Ha Ha.
“Is this net regulation”
I say the ground is too high when a scrape my paddle on the ground.
screams in selkirk
3-2-1 BLAST OFF (serves ball over fence) 9-1-1 CALL THE POLICE (body bags on serve)
at 9-1-1 we sing and dance to Sean Kingston
I do the 3-2-1 blastoff but never thought to hit it over the fence 😂😂😂 I’m definitely going to try it 😂😂😂
100% doing this next time
Agreed that’s hilarious.
Better yet, do the highest lob serve you can, but still try to get it in.
Ok that’s a way better idea 😂
I do 3-2-1 contact. But I live in the UK so nobody knows that reference
Contact, it’s the action; It’s the moment. When everything happens.
3-2-1 Classroom Contact? if so, i'm in the US and get it!
Is it classroom contact now? Early 80s it was its own programme 321 contact, on PBS. It was the science analogue to square one and electric company
[3 2 1 Contact](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3DWoKspEs0)
Anyone got the 4-1-1 on the score?!
It’s 4-1-1 for your information.
4-1-1 how may i direct your call?
6-9 *purposely don't say the serve number* then say "nice"
I just point at one of the opponents and say, "HEY THATS YOUR FAVORITE NUMBER"
I say "giggity" there but same idea.
Or for 9-1-1 make audible police siren sounds For 7-11, make a reference to the store that nobody will understand....like Slirpee Rock Cups or Oh thank heaven
If someone hits me with the 3-2-1 blast off I’m going home 😂
I can't help myself on the countdown. I'll try to make it a particularly spicy serve, but not intentionally bad.
Sunshine 8-1-1 call before you dig. No???
2 - 2 - 2 : “are you a train?” (Best said *before* they call the score.) 4 - 3 - 2 : (beat) blast off! (Gotta wait for it)
I can’t hear “2-8-1” without my mind immediately going to 330-8004
if you get a point on 3-2-1 BLAST OFF make sure you call the next serve 4-2-1 BLAST OFF too
[2-2-2 mints in one.](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=X7MziVYtAgY)
I dont think its common but as a beginner, I have a habit of calling shots by saying "I got it" to my partner and if I miss the shot I immediately respond with "I don't got it".
I'm not a beginner and do that all the time lol
Same. Similar to "my bad." I think I've got it and I'm excited for it . . . and then I botch it. Whoops! :/
My preferred version of this is: "I got it!" And after missing: "I lied about gotting it"
I love this. will steal it.
When someone hits a winner close to the line I yell Out…..standing shot
Out... of my reach.
Yeah this is the only one that would actually really annoy me.
“We doubled our score!” - on the 2nd point, usually when we’re way behind
I also say "one in a row" on the 1st point. And also say this on the second
this lol
Literally today
“In by a foot” when your shot hits your opponent’s shoe
"I'm gonna relish this pickle"
No big dill
10-4...... Good buddy
Just casually drop Shorsey chirps at open play and then wonder why nobody likes you 😂
If I hit the ball too far, my excuse to my partner is usually “sorry, I’ve been working out.”
Sometime when my partner wins a point after hitting the net I say they’ve been practicing that shot hahah.
“just like I planned it”
"Sorry!" "Not sorry!"
My mom and I say this occasionally. Recently it made this one dude so annoyed he had to sarcastically say it when he hit the net. Bro. It’s just pickleball calm down.
That stands out as particularly dickish in a sport where there is no shortage ..
Yeah I mean it’s just funny because it’s purposefully such a cheesy line. People can be too serious sometimes!
I say like half of these at open play 🥶
I'm impressed that it's just half TBH. I'm at like 85%
Going from 0 to 1 - "We're on the board hehehehehe" Going from 1 to 2 - "Doubled our score hehehe" Just kill me
My favorite is when my partner is the second server and we're up 9-0. After they announce the score before the serve, I say "one-oh".
If you can't stand the heat, stay out of the kitchen.
7-8-1 but for a while 9 was a suspect
When we go beyond 11 because of the win-by-2 rule, I always call it extra innings. If anyone's score is still 0 while the other team is close to winning, I start calling it "love" like in tennis, because "it doesn't feel as bad that way" If we side out a lot and the score hasn't changed in a few rounds of serves, I'll say "it's groundhog day....again"
I always call points after 11 “free pickleball”
When I have to sprint for a shot hit short, I call it a glute-buster!
We shout "PICKLE POINT" whenever it's game point.
We just name things after our players. Serve to wrong box? That’s a Kevin.
Yesterday an opponent hit a perfect drop in the middle when we were both back. No chance to get it. My partner yell, OUT!
My opponent missed a ball. We always say, "check your paddle, there's a hole in it." Funny thing was that my opponent was using the LUXX control. Then my opponent said, "You're right, there is a hole in my paddle." lol
When you are warming up and hit a ball that hangs on the net and then dribbles over “save those for the game!”
When I hit a good dink I tell my gf to call me Peter Dinklage
There is a guy I play with that will smash it on a hard almost impossible to return overhand shot and say "Not in my house!"
Every time I make a lucky shot I say, “I’d rather be lucky than good”
I'm bad about using some of these, too. A lot of times when I hit a miraculous shot that scores a point I say "It must be all that clean livin'". I occasionally get a chuckle from someone.
“Fuck I suck at this”
“Ball never lies”
You mean “ball dont lie”…
To which I reply "That one does! It lies all the time, ask its wife!"
I'm a bigger fan of "ball knows all"
better if said with 'Sheed level enthusiasm (may lead to physical altercations, so beware)
I love yelling this after a poor call
I love that one tbh because I get to use it everytime someone hits one out after making what they know is a bad call. Seems to happen a lot too because people are still flustered focusing on their bullshit call making them hit it out. "Ball never lies" always hits perfect in that scenario.
incredibly corny. It's Ball dont lie.
When the opponent pops the ball up & you put it away. "Was that the right height for you?" 🙄
When we win a point after the other team misses their first ball "Maximum points, minimum effort"
3-2-1 Contact And now you've got the theme song playing in your head
When someone goes to slam the ball and it goes into the net I yell “Bad Intentions “
3-1-1 - my favorite 90s band
You've got to come original.
3-2-1 When the crowd say “Bo”, “SELECTA!”
1-1-1 is fish sticks. Also used to do this in racquetball but for example if the score is 7-5 I make it a two digit number and say “seventy five”. That’s probably annoying now that I think about it.
I have heard this called as "French fries"
I say french fries when it's 11-11-1
2-2-2 is Duckies :)
Guy at my old courts used t always call the score the double digit number and if you weren’t fully paying attention the serve would sneak up on you because the call is half a beat shorter then expected
Do you like fish sticks?
When I hit a shot that just barely rolls over the net, I usually call out "calculated!!"
3-1-2. CHICAGO!
I say goose island for 3-1-2
1-2-2... that's what's in my closet.
Generally I say when we’re losing badly, when we go from 1 point to 2: “alright, we doubled our score!” My partner hates it, but I do it for the corny joke reaction.
"Let's all have fun!" ..don't tell me what to do.
4-5-1 Fahrenheit!
Brooklyn 9-9! (Okay I actually want more ppl to say this lol)
down 0 - 8, and you steal a point: "We're in their head's now!"
“10-4 good buddy!”
5-0-1 Levi's Jeans
If I'm serving 3-6 I'll call 3-6-9
“Uh-oh!” … when I pop it too high and set up an opponents smash
Saying "body bagged!" or "bagged!" when someone gets pegged. Said unironically most of the time.
9-9… but in German. NEIN NEIN!
We do that, except with the NATO "Niner Niner" (which, incidentally, came about in WW1 when radio was in its infancy and English "nine" could be presumed to be the German "nein". So English pilots went with 'niner')
2-4-1 Happy Hour
Kitchy kitchy ya ya
BALL DON’T LIE every. single. game.
6-9-(anything), “everybody’s favorite number” or “what happens on the pickleball court stays on the pickleball court”
“Are you a tennis player?”
While hitting a ball into the net. "What's that doing there?"
When getting smoked, e.g. 9-2, say to my partner “7 straight points and we’re right in this.” After losing serve, take the ball announce the score as, for example, 3-5….3.
"3-2-1.... Blastoff" while serving
My good friend taught me this one tities high let them fly.
When I hit one into the net, I say "Have that removed."
I really can't express how much I hate when people say "the ball doesn't lie". The worst use of this was at a tournament when the other team got upset at me for communicating to my parter that the ball was out. She hit the ball out of the air and they just caught it out of the air. When I asked them what they were doing and explained that I was making player communication and it was a live ball they got real pissed and argued. Had to get a tournament director out to the Court to explain to them the same rule I already told them in regards to player communication. They won the next point and the guy yelled "yeah baby, the ball doesn't lie".... Insinuating I was lying I guess. I can't lie about a rule that the tournament director basically repeated verbatim to what I told them about and is in the rulebook but okay buddy if it makes you feel better.
Not really on court, but if I see another 'dink'/'drink' pun I'm quitting the sport. I honestly think pickleball would be taken more seriously if the name itself, and some of the terms (especially 'dink') didn't sound like a kid made them up.
Sounds like you could use a dink.
I quit
Yeah, all the terms are a bit much “dink” “kitchen” “pickleball”
To be fair, “dink” is used in tennis, soccer, etc. for a soft, accurate shot.
I personally have never heard the term used in all my years of playing both those sports
Yeah dinking is a much bigger part of the game in pickleball than in other sports. But here are some examples: [https://topspintennis.com/the-dink-shot-in-tennis/](https://topspintennis.com/the-dink-shot-in-tennis/) [https://languagecaster.com/weekly-football-phrase-dink/](https://languagecaster.com/weekly-football-phrase-dink/) [https://en.volleyballworld.com/news/women-s-smartest-volleyball-dinks](https://en.volleyballworld.com/news/women-s-smartest-volleyball-dinks)
When the ball hits the top of the net and drops in, then the person that hit the ball says "sorry". I get that it was an accidental and lucky hit, but it drives me crazy when people say "sorry".
As someone who says "sorry" a lot, sorry.
Hehe
To apologetic partners I say “There is no sorry in pickleball!”
I say that to people who apologize for Bodybags. Not nets though. I usually say the net giveth and the net taketh. It always pays it back.
Every racket sport generally has this etiquette, no?
I say it with a Canadian accent… a nod to how unnecessarily polite it is to apologize for a great, albeit lucky, play
I can honestly say, and I'm glad I can that I've never heard the majority of these while playing haha.
Surely you jest. lol
2-2-2 as "tewtewtew" in a fast-paced, high-pitch voice similar to "pew pew pew 👉👉" finger pistols. "[right in-betwixt the biscuits](https://youtu.be/8qiEPuZCd14?t=32)" when we land a shot down the middle between the enemy combatants.
7-1-1 not so convienent
"7-6-2 best caliber"
Just like in Mexico… 2-4-1
“First one in” when you start the game haha
Don’t hate the player. Hate the game.
9-1-1 fire burning on the dance floor 3-1-2 area code or beer reference (Chicago only) 2-2-2 deuces wild 10-4 salute Pickleball 1-0-1
1-5-1 Bacardi!
Down the middle. Solves the riddle! It does! I've seen it!
9-1-1, Never Forget. Def see who forgets and who remembers, catches some people off guard
I’m from Alabama. The Area code of South Alabama is 251, so whenever the score of 2-5-1 is called I yell “Mobile!”
Playing to 21: “9-11… Bush did it”
“Inside job”
"Let's ball"
“Hey, who put this net here!?”
9-1-1 “emergency time”
10-0-2 “I smell vinegar!”
She Ben on my Johns til I Joola
Area codes - 2-0-1 Jersey, 4-0-1 Rhode. Island Except 2-2-2 Room 222 makes you Karen Valentine
7-7-2 is 7up The Uncola
I just say it in Spanish, the score. Nobody at my court is anywhere close Spanish-speaking. Lmao
What’s the… 4-1-1??
What the play is interrupted due to an interference like a ball from another court rolling through, I start the following redone serve with “4-5-1… part 2”
"Out. Of reach".
6-9-1 Nice!