Common Cornhole Bean Bag Toss Game Terms
The following is a list of terms commonly used in a cornhole (aka: bean bag toss, tailgate toss, soft shoes) game:
Air mail or swish--
A bag that goes directly into the cornhole without touching the board.
Ace or cow pie--
A bag lands on the board, which is worth one point.
Back door--
A cornhole that goes over the top of a blocker and into the hole.
Backstop--
A bag that lands past the cornhole but remains on the board creating a backboard for a slider to knock into without going off the board.
Berlin Airlift--
An opponents bags are blocking the cornhole (in the shape of a wall), leaving the only viable option to airlift the bags into the hole.
Berlin Wall--
An opponent lines up a couple of bags in front of the cornhole, thereby making scoring difficult.
Blocker--
An ace that lands in front of the cornhole, essentially blocking the hole from sliders.
Chuck Finley--
When a bag slides between two others and drops into the hole.
Cornfusion--
When players or teams cannot agree on the scoring of a given inning.
Cornhole or Drano--
A bag falls in the hole, which is worth three points.
Dirty bag--
A bag that is on the ground or is hanging off the board touching the ground.
Four-bagger--
When a player puts all 4 bags in with no help from his bag or another player.
Gusher or double deuce--
Four cornholes by a single player in a single round.
Hanger--
An ace on the lip of the hole ready to drop.
Honors--
The team who tosses first, resulting from the team scoring last.
Hooker--
A bag hitting the board and hooking or curving around a blocker and going in the hole.
Jumper--
A bag that strikes another bag on the board causing it to jump up into the cornhole.
Police--
The cornhole referee.
Push Bag--
When a bag takes in 2 or more bags of either the throwers bag or the opposing players bags.
Sally or corn patty--
A toss that is thrown too weakly and lands on the ground before reaching the board.
Shucker--
When a player pitches a bag and it strikes an opposing players bag knocking it off the board.
Skunk or whitewash—
A game that, by some rules, ends in an 11-0 score.
Slider--
A bag that slides into the hole.
Last Updated (Wednesday, 11 November 2009 06:13)



