2X odds: Making a bet at double your pass line bet. You make this bet behind your pass line bet and get paid at true odds.

5 Count: A system developed by the "Captain" to avoid bad rolls, stretch your time and money at the table and sets you up for the good rolls. For more information read Beat the Craps out of the Casinos by Frank Scoblete.

A ballerina special: Two twos
A hobos delight on a cold and rainy night: Boxcars-12.
An ace caught a loose duce: Three

Boxcars: Twelve
Brooklyn forest: Hard six (two threes)

Choppy: No players are making more than one or two points before sevening out. Many or few numbers may be thrown.

Come bet: A wager that the dice will pass, or win, made after the come-out roll.

Come out roll: The roll that establishes a point number.

Cornbred: Horn bet, high on big red. A drunk was calling this out. Meant to say Hornbred. See below. Heard at Texas Station, North Las Vegas.

Craps: A roll of 2, 3, or 12.

Dept. of the Interior: When you want to make an inside bet. Heard at Texas Station, North Las Vegas.

Die in the wood, roll no good: One of the dice landed in the players chip rack.

Don't Pass: A bet made on the come-out roll that the dice will not pass.

Eighter from decatur: Eight

Evealine: Eleven, after the point is made.

Excuse me ma'am/sir we need to feed the chickens not kill them: A player that is throwing the dice to hard.

Excuse me sir/ma'am craps is a game of skill not strength: A player that is throwing the dice to hard.

Excuse me sir/ma'am you did not loose the dice only your money and your friends: Player throws craps on come out.

Field: A one roll wager that the next number will be a 2, 3, 4, 9, 10, 11, or 12.

Hard Ten: A women's best friend.

Hop: A one roll wager that a particular number will come up on the next throw of the dice.

Horn: A one roll wager on the 2, 3, 11 and 12 combined.

Hornbred: Horn bet, high on big red. A drunk was calling this out. Eventually started to say

Cornbred: See above. Heard at Texas Station, North Las Vegas.

Hot dice are mighty nice: Hot table

I can't read 'er, she's in the cedar: One or both of the dice landed in the players chip rack.
In the plank, not worth a wank: One or both of the die landed in the rail.

Jesse James: A nine. Jesse James was shot by a forty-five.

Jimmie Hick: A six.

Lay: A bet against a particular number by the wrong bettor, who gives the casino a 5% comission.

Little Joe: Four

Long and strong: When the stickman asks you to throw hard enough to hit the backboard.

Midnight: Twelve

Nina from Pasadena : Nine

Nina at the Marina: Nine

Nine, Nina. You should have seena in the back of my Cortina: Nine

OJ: Three and two (32, O.J. Simpson's football #)

Pass line: Betting that the point number will be thrown before a seven.

Pair of aces in the wrong places: Two

Place bet: A bet on either the 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, or 10 as individual numbers or in any combination. The wager is that they will repeat before a seven is thrown.

Point: The number established from the come out roll. This number needs to be thrown before a seven in order to win a pass line bet.

Put bet: Is a pass line bet that you put up without going through the come-out roll. i.e.: If you have not placed a pass-line bet and the shooter rolls a point of six, you can then put a bet on the pass line, with the appropriate odds. The big advantage to put bets is that you get to choose your own point numbers. The disadvantage is that you lose out on come out sevens and elevens. But remember, you don’t add odds until the point is established, so on come out sevens and elevens, all you win is your flat bet.

Rhythmic Rollers: People who can influence the dice to change the odds. ( Dice pre-setters )

Same bet, press method: Used for place bets. When you win your first bet you say same bet to the dealer. On your next win you would tell the dealer to press it. Keep repeating the process.

Snake eyes: Two

Square pair: Hard eight

Stickman: Dealer who calls the game and handles the stick.

Studio 54: Nine

The dice are cold as ice, sweet as honey, bet the don't and win the money: Cold table

Two crap, Two. Double in the bubble: Two

Two rolls and no coffee: Sevened out after two rolls.

Vig or Vigorish: A gambler's term for the house edge.

Weaki Weaki: "Hawaiian" for when the roll doesn't hit the backboard. Reno dealer advised the shooter to "throw the dice like your ex was standing at the far end of the table".

Whirl bet: A one roll bet on the 2, 3, 7, 11 and 12.

Yo: Eleven

Yo, Elevine. Lost her draws in the men's latrine: Eleven

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