Like a lot of games, bingo has a language of its own. It's colorful, evocative, funny and sometimes a little rude, especially where the nicknames for bingo numbers are concerned.
Below is a list of the most popular bingo lingo. They apply to both 90-ball and 75-ball bingo. If you're going to use them, you have to be consistent with the game. For example, if it's 75-ball bingo, don't use 45: Halfway There. Some of the calls come in pairs so use them that way. For example, if you say 16: Never Been Kissed, you should also use 17: Always Been Kissed.
The following list is comprehensive, but certainly not complete. New nicknames for bingo numbers are invented every day. If you can remember many of these calls, you'll be sounding like a bingo veteran in no time.
- Kelly's Eye / On its Own / At the Beginning / Start the Game / Number one, just begun / Buttered Scone
- One Little Duck / Baby's Done It / Me and You / Buckle My Shoe
- Cup of Tea / One Little Flea / Monkey on the Tree / Dixie Lee / You and Me
- Knock at the Door / On the Foor
- Man Alive / Jack's alive
- Just a Click / Tom's Tricks / Tom Mix / Chopsticks
- Lucky Seven / God's in Heaven / David Beckham / Hope in Heaven
- One Fat Lady / The Garden Gate
- Doctor's Orders ("Number 9 pill")
- Gordon's Den (forename of current prime minister) / Big Ben / cock and hen / Downing Street
- Chicken Legs / Legs Eleven
- One Dozen / Monkey's Cousin
- Unlucky for Some / Lucky for Some
- Valentine's Day
- Young and keen / Rugby team
- Sweet Sixteen / Never been Kissed
- Dancing Queen / Often been Kissed
- Coming of Age / Now you can Vote
- Goodbye Teens
- One Score / Getting Plenty
- Key of the Door / Royal Salute
- Two Little Ducks / all the twos / dinky doo
- Thee and Me / A Duck and a Flea
- Two Dozen / Did You Score / Do You Want Some More
- Duck and Dive
- Half a Crown / Pick and Mix / Bed and Breakfast
- Gateway to Heaven / Little Duck with a Crotch
- Overweight / In a State / Duck and it's Weight
- You're Doing Fine / In Your Prime
- Dirty Gertie / Speed Limit / Your Face is Dirty
- Get Up and Run
- Buckle My Shoe
- Dirty Knee / Gertie Lee / Dirty Flees / Come in For Ya Tea / all the threes / Feathers
- Ask for More / Dirty Whore
- Jump and Jive
- Three Dozen
- More Than Eleven
- You're Late!!/Top Date!
- All the steps (Novel "The Thirty-Nine Steps")
- Naughty Forty / Life Begins At
- Time for Fun / Life's Begun
- Winnie the Pooh / The most famous street in Manhattan
- Down on your Knees
- All the Fours / Droopy Drawers / Open Two Doors
- Halfway There
- Up to Tricks
- Four and Seven
- Four Dozen
- Copper / Nice and Shine
- Bulls eye / Blind 50 / Halfway House / Hawaii
- Tweak of the Thumb
- Danny La Rue / Chicken Vindaloo / Weeks in a Year
- Stuck in the Tree / The Joker / Feng Shui
- Clean the Floor
- Snakes Alive / All the Fives
- Was she worth it?
- Heinz Varieties
- Make Them Wait
- Brighton Line
- Five Dozen / Three Score
- Baker's Bun
- Turn to the Screw
- Tickle Me
- Red Raw/ knock on the door/ you're poor/ cats paw
- Old Age Pension / Stop Work
- Clickety-Click / All the sixes
- Made in Heaven
- Saving Grace
- Thats Rude / Two can chew
- Three Score & 10
- Bang on the Drum
- In for a Poo
- Queen B / Crutch and a Flea
- Candy Store / Grandmama of Bingo
- Strive & Strive / On the Skive
- 7 and 6 - Was she worth it? / Trombones
- All the sevens / Seventy plus Seven
- Heaven's Gate
- One More Time / Seventy plus nine
- Four Score / Ghandi's Breakfast
- Stop and Run / Cinnamon Bun
- Straight on Through / Fat Lady and a Duck
- Time for Tea / Fat Lady and a Flea
- Seven Dozen
- Staying Alive
- Between the Sticks / Dogs dicks
- Fat Lady with a Crutch / Fat Lady with a Cane
- Two Fat Ladies / All the eights
- All But One
- Top of the Shop / Top of the House / As Far As We Go / End of the Line
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