Volleyball vocab

In volleyball, just like any sport, there are certain words that only the people who play, or know the game, will know what it means. These words are a sort of "jargon" for volleyball, and if used by people who don't play, they probably wouldn't understand what it meant. Here is a list of some of these words:

Pancake- while most think of the breakfast food, to volleyball players it is a one handed dive where the ball to the floor, but you get one hand in between the floor and the ball.

Ace- instead of a card from a deck, this is when the server scores a point off of serve receive. 

Pepper- most people think of a spice or vegetable, but volleyball players think of passing, setting, and hitting back and forth to your partner. 

Joust- when I think of a joust(the non volleyball one) I think of a midieval game played on horses. When volleyball players hear it, they think of when the ball is falling on top of the net and two players go up and try to push the ball over at the same time.

Hut- no this is not a small house, but a low set to the outside hitter.

Pipe- not the metal pipe, but a back row set to the back middle. 

Six-pack- no this is not beer, this is when a defending player gets hit in the face by another hit or block. 

Roof- this is when the blockers block the ball right back down to the other side, not the top of your house. 

Tool- this is when a hitter hits the ball off of the blockers hands and scores a point off of it.
Like all the other sports, and really any group or club of any kind, volleyball has specific "jargon" and slang words that only pertain to that specific group, and only the people in it will understand. It is really quite interesting that things that are very familiar to you, a different person might have no idea what it is or what you mean when you say it.

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