Bingo Lingo

When at the bingo you may hear unusual phrases such as One Fat Lady , Legs Eleven and Key of the Door. These are all slang expressions used in some Bingo Halls.

We have included some examples of the phrases you may hear.

Traditional Bingo Lingo

1 Kelly's Eye / On its Own / At the Beginning / Start the Game / Number one, just begun
2 One Little Duck
3 Cup of Tea / One Little Flea / My little Fly / Dixie Lee
4 Knock at the Door
5 Man Alive / Jack's alive
6 Just a Click / chopsticks
7 Lucky for Some / hope in heaven
8 One Fat Lady / The Garden Gate
9 Doctor's Orders ("Number 9 pill")
10 Gordon's Den (forename of current prime minister) / Big Ben / cock and hen / Downing Street
11 Chicken Legs / Legs Eleven
13 Unlucky for Some / Lucky for Some
16 Sweet Sixteen
17 Never been kissed
21 Key of the Door
22 Two Little Ducks / all the twos / dinky doo
23 Thee and Me
24 Two Dozen
26 Half a Crown / Pick and Mix / bed and breakfast
30 Dirty Gertie
33 Come in For Ya Tea / all the threes / Feathers
37 More Than Eleven
38 You're Late!! / Top Date!
39 All the steps (Novel "The Thirty-Nine Steps")
40 Over the Hill
44 Droopy Drawers / All the fours
45 Halfway There
50 Bulls eye / Blind 50 / Halfway House / Hawaii
51 Tweak of the Thumb
55 Snakes Alive / All the Fives
57 Heinz Varieties
59 Brighton Line
64 Red Raw / knock on the door / you're poor / cats paw
66 Clickety-Click / All the sixes
69 Thats Rude / Two can chew
71 Bang on the Drum
72 In for a Poo
76 7 and 6 - Was she worth it? / Trombones
77 All the sevens / Seventy plus Seven
79 One More Time / Seventy plus nine
81 Stop and Run / Cinnamon Bun
86 Between the Sticks / Dogs dicks
88 Two Fat Ladies / All the eights
90 Top of the Shop / Top of the House

The use of these expressions has steadily decreased over the years and have been replaced by simple repetition. You are now more likely to hear "Two and Five, Twenty Five"  Generally the smaller the venue and the game the more likely you are to hear the old slang expressions. 

If you know of any other slang expressions (for bingo numbers!) Please let us know.