4 Across - 4-of-a-kind on the deal in Pick'em.
Ack-Ack - A K A K.
American Airlines - A A.
Andrews Sisters - Q Q Q.
Any Monkey - In Deuces Wild when you hold three deuces and end up with 4 of a kind (not 4 deuces!), as in 'Any monkey could have made that hand'.
Big Slick - A K.
Blackjack - A J.
Blind Squirrels - Used in several variations to refer usually to a mini-jackpot (deuces, aces in super aces) that came unexpectedly - for example catching four deuces when you only held one or two. Phrase derived from the saying 'even a blind squirrel can find a nut' that I think I first used when seeing idiot players do well by catching lucky draws. At times I may embellish this phrase for more extreme cases such as catching all four deuces on the redraw (deaf, dumb, and blind squirrel, etc).
Broderick Crawford - T 4.
Bullets - A A.
Canadian Presto - 4 4.
Canadian Rockets - Q Q.
Canine - K 9.
Colt 45 - 4 5.
Computer Hand - Q 7.
Cowboys - K K.
Crabs - 3 3.
Dead Man's Hand - Black Aces and Eights.
Deuces - 2 2.
Diana Dors - 4 4.
Dog Hand - K 9 K 9.
Dolly Parton - 9 5.
Double D's - 9 9 5 5 X (Double Dolly's).
Doyle Brunson - T 2.
Ducks - 2 2.
Field Goal - After being dealt two pair and drawing the single middle card, where the redraw is then revealed to be a value between the two pairs you are holding.
Four Horseman - K K K K.
Four Of A Waste - Starting with a dealt hand of 3 dueces and not improving on the redraw.
Flush The Hard Way - Breaking up a dealt flush or dealt 4 to a flush (for ex, to hold 3 to a royal) and still catching a flush on the redraw.
The Frugal Trip - 2 5 T T T.
Gay Waiter - Q 3.
Gretzky - 9 9. If they are not side by side, it's a split Gretzky. Three nines ... Triple Gretzky.
Gutter Ball - Applies to playing a 5-play machine or higher and completing a hand with ZERO credits. A variation of this is (say while playing a 10-play machine) you catch a paying hand only on the last (10th) hand - I then refer to that as a '10 pin'.
Heinz - 5 7.
Hooks - J J.
Jack Benny - 3 9.
Jack Off - J J J and AKQT.
Jackson Five - J 5.
Jane Russell - 4 5.
Jay Birds - J J.
Jesus - A 9.
Johnny Moss - A T.
Kojack - K J.
Ladies - Q Q.
Lazarus - When you play your last 5 credits and win something. There are also Double and Triple Lazari.
Little Slick - A Q.
Machine Gun - A K 4 7.
Magnum - 4 4.
Meat Hooks - J J.
Monkeys - We make numerous remarks about the monkey inside the machine who deals the cards but has an imperfect understanding of the game. For example, the monkey gets fives and deuces confused. Looking for a deuce? The monkey will deal you a five. Aces and fours are also problematic as the monkey just sees that they are pointy. The monkey knows colors, but gets suits mixed up. Looking for a club? The monkey will deal you a spade. Switching games seems to further confound the monkey. The monkey remembers that you really wanted four aces yesterday while you were playing Double Bonus, but doesn't know you have since switched to Deuces Wild. If you get mad at the monkey, he will get disgusted and go on a banana break. Then you're really in trouble. Stupid monkey.
Montana Banana - 9 2.
Nine Scare - A variantion of a scare (first 4 cards are a royal) where you catch the '9' of the suit you were drawing for.
No Deuces - Another name for a royal, since there are so many times where for a split second you think you caught a royal only then see it was in fact a wild royal. Relevant to multi line games where the dealt cards are small and hands are part of a large set so the results are less obvious in one's split second visualization.
Oldsmobile - 9 8.
Penn & Teller - J J.
Phil Helmuth - 9 9.
Pocket Rockets - A A.
Pocket Snowmen - 8 8.
Presto - 5 5.
Queen - 'Queenus Queenus inbetweenus' (I have no idea why).
Quinine - Q 9.
Raquel Welch - 3 8.
Razgu - Junk hand (discard all cards).
Slim Pick 'ems - A short pay Pick 'em game.
Split - T 7.
Steam Donkey - 5 of a kind in Deuces Wild. Named shortly after a trip to Canada where we saw an antique logging contraption called a steam donkey. Five of a kind with only one deuce is a 'Natural Donkey'.
Steel Wheel - A 2 3 4 5 suited.
Stray Quad - Getting a natural quad when drawing to less than trips.
Three Wisemen - K K K.
Treys - 3 3.
Route 66 - 6 6.
Royal Sampler - Obvious.
RPM - 7 8.
Siegfried and Roy - Q Q.
Snowmen - 8 8.
Sunset Strip - 7 7.
Twiggy - 2 9.
Union Oil - 7 6.
Waldo - 'Waldo', as in 'Where's Waldo' - a PickEm term we use when dealt trips that cannot be kept. 3 9 3 3, for example. Should we find the missing card from the trips on the draw, we holler 'There's Waldo!' and toast to the bum luck.
Walking Back To Houston - AK.
Wheel - A 2 3 4 5.
Woolworth - 5 T.
Work Horse - 4 of a kind in Deuces Wild, from a remark my husband made about 4 of a kinds being essential to just keep plodding along.
Wounded Man's Hand - A A 7 7 X.
Wrong-sided - Getting a paying pair that you can't keep as the 2 cards on the right in PKM.
WSU (Wynn So Ugly) - The modified NSU paytable at the Wynn.
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