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Brush up on your vocabulary!
Angle -- A wrestling "plot", which may involve only one match or may continue over several matches for some time; the reason behind a feud or a turn.
Blade -- The practice of cutting oneself or being cut with a part of a razor blade hidden in tights, hair, or wrappings in order to produce juice.
Blow Up -- To become fatigued or exhausted. e.g. The Ultimate Warrior was said to be one of a number of wrestlers who blows up on the entry ramp.
Booker -- The individual responsible for angles, finishes, hiring and firing in a promotion.
Bump -- A fall or hit done as a spot which takes the wrestler (or other participant, i.e. referee, manager) out of the ring or out of action.
Card -- The series of matches in one location at one time.
Draw -- To attract marks. The popularity of a wrestler, the ability to bring in marks.
Dud -- A particularly bad and totally uninteresting match.
Face -- A good guy.
Fall -- A referee's count of three with the loser's shoulders on the mat.
Feud -- A series of matches between two wrestlers or two tag teams, usually face vs. heel though face feuds and heel feuds are not unheard of.
Finish -- The event, or sequence of events, which leads to the ultimate outcome of a match.
Foreign Object -- Something not allowed in the ring or in the match.
Green -- An inexperienced wrestler who does not draw.
Hardway Juice -- Real blood, produced by means other than blading, i.e. the hardway.
Heat -- Enthusiasm, a positive response. The WCW uses a heat machine for its televised shows which make them somewhat of a work.
Heel -- A bad guy, a rule-breaker.
House -- The wrestling audience in the building said to be composed of marks.
Job -- A staged loss by a wrestler. A clean job is a staged loss by legal pinfall or submission without resort to illegalities. To do a job. Sometimes combined with a descriptive adjective (stretcher job, rope job, tights job.)
Jobber -- An unpushed wrestler who does jobs for pushed wrestlers. Barry Horowitz is probably the best known of these. Sometimes known as fish, redshirts, PL's (professional losers), or "ham-and-eggers."
Juice -- Blood. To bleed, usually as a result of blading.
Kayfabe -- Of, or related to, inside information about the business, especially by fans. Origin is corny jargon talk for "fake."
Kill -- Diminish or eliminate heat or drawing power. There are a variety of ways to do this, but mostly it is done by having a wrestler do too many jobs. A house can be killed by too many screw-job endings.
Mark -- A member of the audience, presumed to be gullible.
Paper -- Complimentary tickets. To give lots of complimentary tickets to make a house look good, particularly for a television taping.
Pop -- Sudden heat from a house as a response to a wrestler's entry or hot move.
Post -- To run or be run into a ring post.
Potato -- To injure a wrestler by hitting him on the head or causing him to hit his head on something.
Run-in -- Interference by a non-participant in a match.
Save -- A run-in to protect a wrestler from being beat up after a match is over.
Screw-job -- A match or ending which is not clean (definite) due to factors outside the "rules" of wrestling.
Shoot -- The real thing. A match where one participant is really trying to hurt another. The opposite of a work or fake.
Spot -- An event or sequence of events which makes a particular match distinctive, a high-point of a match.
Squash -- A totally passive job where one wrestler completely dominates another.
Stiff -- Chops, hits or moves which cause real injury (though perhaps not more than a welting up of the opponent). Not a shoot, but almost.
Stretch -- A form of a shoot where one wrestler dominates rather than injures the other as proof of personal superiority.
Turn -- A change in orientation from a heel to a face or vice-versa.
Work -- A deception or a sham, the opposite of a shoot.
Workrate -- The approximate ratio of good wrestling to rest holds in a match or in a wrestler's performance.