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Bingo callers in traditional bingo halls would use nicknames when calling out each number, and they became known as bingo calls. No Bingo No Fun experts found out that as the game of bingo evolved, so did a unique set of nicknames for each bingo number. Used less frequently today, they were commonly used at one time and there were many variations of bingo calls to be found in bingo halls all over the UK.

No Bingo No Fun will probably not be the first to tell that numbers from 1-90 have bingo calls linked with them. Some bingo lingo is very simple, such as ‘Four and Nine’: 49. Other nicknames are vaguer, such as ‘Pick and Mix’: 26. The nickname will often rhyme with the number, for example ‘15 Young and keen’, other bingo calls don’t rhyme but have a logical reason behind them.

The following listing (provided by 90-ball-bingo.co.uk) gives some of the more frequent nicknames in the UK for the numbers called during of the game. When calling, the caller will usually announce both digits on their own first, and then the number itself, for example, "Three and two, thirty-two". Some callers will use many of these slang terms, others just a few. However, "Kelly's Eye", "Legs Eleven" and "Top of the Shop" are often used, even if none of the others are.

1. Kelly's Eye / At the Beginning
2. One Little Duck / Me and You
3. Cup of tea / You and Me
4. Knock at the Door
5. Man Alive
6. Tom's tricks / Tom Nix
7. Lucky Seven / God's in Heaven
8. One Fat Lady / Golden Gate/ Garden Gate
9. Doctor's Orders
10. Tony's Den.
11. Legs Eleven
12. One Dozen
13. Unlucky for Some / Devil's Number/ Baker’s Dozen
14. Valentines Day
15. Young and keen / Rugby Team
16. Sweet Sixteen / She's Lovely
17. Dancing Queen / Often been Kissed
18. Coming of Age
19. Goodbye Teens
20. One Score/ Blind 20
21. Key of the Door
22. Two Little Ducks / All the Twos
23. Thee and Me / The Lord is my Shepherd
24. Two dozen
25. Duck and Dive
26. Pick and Mix/Half a crown/Bed and Breakfast
27. Gateway to Heaven / Little duck with a Crutch
28. Over Weight / In a State
29. You're doing Fine/ Rise and Shine
30. Burlington Bertie / Dirty Gertie / Speed Limit / Flirty 30 / Blind 30
31. Get up and Run
32. Buckle my Shoe
33. Dirty Knees / All the Threes / All the Feathers / Two Little Fleas
34. Ask for More
35. Jump and Jive
36. Three Dozen
37. A Flea in Heaven / More than Eleven
38. Christmas Cake
39. Those Famous Steps / Steps
40. Naughty Forty
41. Time for Fun
42. Winnie the Pooh/ Famous Street in Manhattan
43. Down on your Knees
44. Droopy Drawers / All the Fours
45. Halfway There / Halfway House
46. Up to Tricks
47. Four and Seven
48. Four Dozen
49. P.C. / Copper / Nick Nick
50. Half a Century/ Bulls Eye / Blind 50
51. Tweak of the Thumb
52. Danny La Rue/ Weeks in a Year
53. Stuck in the Tree
54. Clean the Floor
55. Snakes Alive / All the Fives
56. Was she worth it?
57. Heinz Varieties
58. Make them Wait / Choo choo Thomas
59. Brighton Line
60. Five Dozen /Three Score / Blind 60
61. Bakers Bun
62. Turn on the Screw / Tickety Boo
63. Tickle Me
64. Red Raw / The Beatles’ Number
65. Old Age Pension
66. Clickety Click / All the Sixes
67. Made in Heaven / Argumentative Number
68. Saving Grace
69. Either Way Up /The Same Both Ways / Your Place or Mine
70. Three Score and Ten / Blind 70
71. Bang on the Drum
72. Six Dozen / A Crutch and a Duck / Par for the Course
73. Crutch and a flea / Queen B
74. Candy Store
75. Strive and Strive
76. Trombones /Was She Worth It
77. Sunset Strip / All the Sevens / Two Little Crutches
78. Heaven’s Gate
79. One More Time
80. Eight and Blank/Blind 80/Gandhi's Breakfast
81. Stop and Run
82. Straight on Through/ Fat lady with a Duck
83. Time for Tea / Ethel's Ear
84. Seven Dozen
85. Staying Alive
86. Between the Sticks
87. Torquay in Devon/ Fat lady with a Crutch
88. Two fat ladies / All the Eights
89. Nearly there / All but One
90. Top of the Shop / Top of the House / Blind 90 / End of the Line

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