| 2 Lap Duel: Two skaters, two laps, anything goes...
Blood and Thunder: Practice drill in which all skaters take the track and proceed to knock the hell out of each other until only one skater remains standing.
Cannonball: Deliberate fall to trip several skaters on the opposing team at once.
Catching the Lip: Can rip your skate off, or break your ankle in half.
Cha Cha Challenge: Anything offensive and hard to accomplish, especially in public.
Chasing the Jammer: When Cherry Chainsaw and Lux just won't give up.
Clawing/Swimming: A jammer pulling her way through a tough pack.
Clothesline: Straight arm block against a jammer's throat.
Cutting the Track: Crossing the infield to rejoin the pack after you fall.
Blocker: Defensive skater position. Blockers set up plays to help their jammer or block the opposing jammer. The number of blockers passed by the opposing jammer determines the score per jam.
Fishnet Burn: Similar to masonite burn, but an attractive, semi-permanent fish-scale pattern, resulting from falling while wearing fishnet stockings.
Getting Railed: When a skater rams another skater up onto the outer track rail.
Give a Whip: An assist move in which a skater extends her arm and whips her jammer around the track, propelling her with momentum and quite possibly taking out unsuspecting blockers in her path.
Holy Stoners: Off-track Holy Rollers.
Jam: A single play in roller derby, usually lasting 1-2 minutes.
Jammer: Scoring skater position designated by star on her helmet. Her objective is to score one point per opposing blocker she laps.
Lead Jammer: The jammer in the lead and the only one that can call off a jam.
Over the Rail: Pushing a skater over the barrier rail onto the floor.
Over the Top: Overhand cheat move in arm wrestling.
Pack: The defensive skaters, including three blockers and a leading pivot.
Pack 'Em Up!: Fight yell by Ref Masterblader before jam.
Pivot: Defensive skater position designated by a stripe down the middle of her helmet and known as the front pace setter for the pack. She may take over the jammer position if her jammer is taken out during play.
Pull a Chola: Starting a drunken bar fight with two ugly guys.
Purple Heart Award: Awarded to the most heinous injury of the year, usually taken home by recipient of a broken bone.
Pushing to the Inside: When a desperate blocker pushes opponents onto the concrete infield.
Red Rover: Effective block by two skaters with linked arms.
Riding the Lip: One skate on, one skate off the track - now illegal for jammers.
She-E-Os: Founders of Texas-style roller derby: Anya Jack, April Ritzenthaler, Heather Burdick, and Nancy Lynn.
Snake Drill: A practice drill in which all skaters skate single-file around the track, while a single jammer weaves through the entire line from back to front.
Solid: A great compliment about a skater's stability and toughness. i.e.: "She's solid."
Spank Alley: Where you go when you've been bad.
Striding the Track: The best way to skate around the banked track to build up the most speed (three strides on the straight-aways, two on the corners).
The Corral: A Rhinestone Cowgirls play in which the pack forms a line and links arms to pull/push all opposing team members into the upper rail, leaving the inside path of the track open to their jammer.
Track Rash or Masonite Burn: Stinging, red streak across buttocks and/or legs resulting from too-short skirts/pants/shorts and exposed skin hitting the banked track. Accompanied by painful skin-sticking-to-masonite-board sound.
T-Stop: Dragging the back skate perpendicular to the front skate.
The Thunderdome: An old airport hanger in Austin that is the official site of the TXRD Lonestar Rollergirls bouts. The location is also often used by film studios for shoots.
Whiney Rhineys: What happens when you play dirty and lose anyway.
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