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These are pinball terms used by the pinball gaming community which may or may not be a part of the official pinball lexicon. 

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In memory of ReplayFX

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In memory of ReplayFX


The Inductees

A

 

 

Ace
Aced Out
After Hours Beat Down
Airball / Air Ball
Air Defense Deflection
Alley Pass
Another Satisfied Customer
Avatarred

 

B

 

 

Backdoor Kickback
Back Flip
Bail Out
Ball Psyched
Bally Brick
Bang Back
Bash Target
Bathroom Stall
Batman Shimmy
Belsito
Big Four
Big Six
Bleeder
Bonus Meltdown
Bounce Back
Bounce Pass
Brain Drain
Brick
Brickhouse
Bricklayer
 Bubble Boy
Bus Driver
 Butterflippers

 

C

 

 

Cheesing
Chemical Warfare
Chill Maneuver
Chimp Flipping
Chopping Wood
Cliff-ied
Cliffy’d
Clustervuk
 Cradle Robber
Cradle Separation
Crank It Down
Crank It Off

 

D

 

 

Danger Zone
Dead Bounce
Dead Flip
Dead Flipper Bounce
Dead Flipper Pass
Dead Zone
Death Save
Defense
Disco-Balling
Drainbow
Drainsplosion
Drain Train
Driver
Dr. J.
Drop a Bomb
Drop Catch
Drunk Driver

 

E

 

 

Eddie Murphy
Elwin Pose
Everybody Out of the Pool
Expo Expressway
ExpoGlare

 

F

 

 

Fast Four
Final Destination
Flick Pass
FLR-riness
FLR-ry
Free Look
Fun With Bonus

 

G

 

 

Gatekeeper (concept)
Gatekeeper (player)
Gorilla Flipping
Gunching

 

H

 

 

Heartbreaker
Hi-Five
High-Five
House
House Party

 

I

 

 

Icarus Round
In Jail
Inlane Pass
Inlane Transfer

 

J

Jailbreak
John Plunge

K

 

 

Killjoy
Kill Shot

 

L

 

 

Lance Armstrong
Last Man Plunging
Late Night Beat Down
Lazarus
Leaping Lazarus
Lemmings
Live Catch
Lonesome Loser
Loop Pass

 

M

 

 

Maroon
Maxwell Smart
McEwen Special
McEwen Strategy
Meltdown
Moonwalk

 

N

 

 

Nine-Out

 

O

 

 

Ock Block
Outlane Drain Train
Over-Under

 

P

 

 

Palette Swap
Paragone
Passy
Peavlered
Pete Townshend
Phantom Power
Pinfolk
Pindividual
Pinjury
Placebo Power
Play it Forward
Pocket Entry
Post Catch
Postmaster General
Post Pass
Post Pinball Depression
Pre-Plunge Pee
Pre-Plunge Piss

 

Q

R

 

 

Rainbow
Restroom Stall
Return Lane Transfer
Robbing the Cradle
Rock the Cradle
Rolling Pass
Rollover (one word)
Roll Over (two words)

 

S

 

 

Safety Valve
Sam Harvey
Scorekeepers Hour
Scottified
SDTM
Seal Flipping
Seven-Ten Split
Shatz
Shatz*Bot
Shatz-pot
Shatz the Inlane
Shotgun
Shotgun Seat
Simuldraineous
Skill Search
Slap Save
Slingtown
Slingtown Express
Snail Time
Snipe
Sniping
Snowman
 Spider-Man Shimmy
Spinnage
Split Drain
Stack
Stack Blocker
Stack Stopper
Stage Flipping
Stereo
Sternament
Straight Down the Middle
Straitjacket
 Succubus
Super Shatz*Bot

 

T

 

 

Tap Pass
Taxi Turn
Tech Pass
Threading
Three* Egg Omelet
Tilt Bobble
Tilt Karma
Tip Pass
Tommy Dollars
Travelling
Trifecta
Trust
Turn Over

 

U

 

 

Unicorn
Up, Over and Gone

 

V

 

 

Viagra Target
Victory Plunge

 

W

 

 

Walk Off
Warden
WPPR-ize
WPPR-tunity
Wicked Shimmy

 

X

Y

Z

 

 

Zombie Ball 

 

 

Prospects (on-deck)

Visit the New Pinball Dictionary Nominations Zone to see more prospects …

“Bye-breaker”
“Crook Drain / Joint Drain”
“Ghosting”
Golden Eyedropper
“Killscreened”

“Liquid Skill”
“Pinagogue”
“Pinballus Interruptus”

“Pinja (Pinball Ninja)”
“Pump and Dump / Pay to Play / Herb Style”
“Reversal of Fortune”

“Slingshort”
“Walk of Shame”
“Valid / Validation”
(Plus a backlog of others…)


In memory of ReplayFX