Terms
There are a number of terms which are used in many versions of the game, such as:
- Airbourne or handy, hitting the ball with your hand and making it go into another square without it bouncing in yours first, resulting in being out
- Into, players going into others squares, resulting in either a play on or Replay (note: sometimes kids claim "friendly-fire" or "invaders" to escape this; however, most of the time this is not allowed).
- Re-Serve, foul serve
- Re-Play, a case of unclear situation in which 2 serves
- Interference, a term when another person interrupts the game, for example, walking through the court
- Fault 123: If king serves the ball and gets himself out, he can use his faults to defend himself. There is usually a minimum 2 faults and 3 maximum rule for the number of faults allowed.
- Tea party, when two players pass between themselves excessively, thereby excluding the other two players from the game.
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Famous quotes containing the word terms:
“We are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be, whether we find them attractive company or not. Otherwise they turn up unannounced and surprise us, come hammering on the mind’s door at 4am of a bad night and demand to know who deserted them, who betrayed them, who is going to make amends. We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget.”
—Joan Didion (b. 1934)
“I hope that you live on good terms with yourself and the gods.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“It is not [the toddler’s] job yet to consider other people’s feelings, he has to come to terms with his own first. If he hits you and you hit him back to “show him what it feels like,” you will have given a lesson he is not ready to learn. He will wail as if hitting was a totally new idea to him. He makes no connections between what he did to you and what you then did to him; between your feelings and his own.”
—Penelope Leach (20th century)