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  "$comment": "Traditional British 90-ball bingo calls, numbers 1-90. Wording varies by hall and region; the 'call' field is the most widely recognised version and 'alternates' lists common regional variants. Free to reuse with attribution to https://snapbingox.com/blog/bingo-calls-nicknames",
  "name": "Traditional 90-ball bingo calls (1-90)",
  "description": "The traditional rhyming nicknames a bingo caller says alongside each drawn number in the 90-ball game, with a short note on where each one comes from.",
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  "url": "https://snapbingox.com/data/bingo-calls.json",
  "gameType": "90-ball",
  "count": 90,
  "lastUpdated": "2026-08-25",
  "license": "Free to reuse with attribution to https://snapbingox.com/blog/bingo-calls-nicknames",
  "calls": [
    {
      "number": 1,
      "call": "Kelly's eye",
      "alternates": [],
      "origin": "Long-standing hall slang. Often linked to the Australian outlaw Ned Kelly, but the origin is disputed.",
      "type": "slang",
      "anchor": "number-1",
      "url": "https://snapbingox.com/blog/bingo-calls-nicknames#number-1"
    },
    {
      "number": 2,
      "call": "One little duck",
      "alternates": [
        "Doctor Who",
        "One small duck"
      ],
      "origin": "The figure 2 has the curved neck and body of a duck. Players often reply “quack”.",
      "type": "shape",
      "anchor": "number-2",
      "url": "https://snapbingox.com/blog/bingo-calls-nicknames#number-2"
    },
    {
      "number": 3,
      "call": "Cup of tea",
      "alternates": [
        "You and me",
        "Debbie McGee"
      ],
      "origin": "Rhymes with “three”.",
      "type": "rhyme",
      "anchor": "number-3",
      "url": "https://snapbingox.com/blog/bingo-calls-nicknames#number-3"
    },
    {
      "number": 4,
      "call": "Knock at the door",
      "alternates": [
        "The one next door"
      ],
      "origin": "Rhymes with “four”.",
      "type": "rhyme",
      "anchor": "number-4",
      "url": "https://snapbingox.com/blog/bingo-calls-nicknames#number-4"
    },
    {
      "number": 5,
      "call": "Man alive",
      "alternates": [],
      "origin": "Rhymes with “five”.",
      "type": "rhyme",
      "anchor": "number-5",
      "url": "https://snapbingox.com/blog/bingo-calls-nicknames#number-5"
    },
    {
      "number": 6,
      "call": "Half a dozen",
      "alternates": [
        "Tom Mix",
        "Chopsticks"
      ],
      "origin": "Six is half of a dozen. “Tom Mix” is rhyming slang from the silent-film cowboy.",
      "type": "arithmetic",
      "anchor": "number-6",
      "url": "https://snapbingox.com/blog/bingo-calls-nicknames#number-6"
    },
    {
      "number": 7,
      "call": "Lucky seven",
      "alternates": [
        "David Beckham",
        "Lucky for some"
      ],
      "origin": "Seven's long-standing reputation as a lucky number.",
      "type": "culture",
      "anchor": "number-7",
      "url": "https://snapbingox.com/blog/bingo-calls-nicknames#number-7"
    },
    {
      "number": 8,
      "call": "Garden gate",
      "alternates": [
        "Harry Tate",
        "At the gate"
      ],
      "origin": "Rhymes with “eight”.",
      "type": "rhyme",
      "anchor": "number-8",
      "url": "https://snapbingox.com/blog/bingo-calls-nicknames#number-8"
    },
    {
      "number": 9,
      "call": "Doctor's orders",
      "alternates": [],
      "origin": "“Number 9” was the laxative pill issued by British army doctors in the Second World War.",
      "type": "culture",
      "anchor": "number-9",
      "url": "https://snapbingox.com/blog/bingo-calls-nicknames#number-9"
    },
    {
      "number": 10,
      "call": "Prime Minister's den",
      "alternates": [
        "Theresa's den",
        "Uncle Ben",
        "Cock and hen"
      ],
      "origin": "10 Downing Street, the Prime Minister's residence. Many halls swap in the sitting PM's name.",
      "type": "culture",
      "anchor": "number-10",
      "url": "https://snapbingox.com/blog/bingo-calls-nicknames#number-10"
    },
    {
      "number": 11,
      "call": "Legs eleven",
      "alternates": [],
      "origin": "The two 1s side by side look like a pair of legs. Players often wolf-whistle.",
      "type": "shape",
      "anchor": "number-11",
      "url": "https://snapbingox.com/blog/bingo-calls-nicknames#number-11"
    },
    {
      "number": 12,
      "call": "One dozen",
      "alternates": [
        "A monkey's cousin"
      ],
      "origin": "Twelve is a dozen.",
      "type": "arithmetic",
      "anchor": "number-12",
      "url": "https://snapbingox.com/blog/bingo-calls-nicknames#number-12"
    },
    {
      "number": 13,
      "call": "Unlucky for some",
      "alternates": [
        "Baker's dozen"
      ],
      "origin": "Thirteen's superstitious reputation; also the baker's dozen of thirteen loaves.",
      "type": "culture",
      "anchor": "number-13",
      "url": "https://snapbingox.com/blog/bingo-calls-nicknames#number-13"
    },
    {
      "number": 14,
      "call": "Valentine's Day",
      "alternates": [],
      "origin": "14 February.",
      "type": "culture",
      "anchor": "number-14",
      "url": "https://snapbingox.com/blog/bingo-calls-nicknames#number-14"
    },
    {
      "number": 15,
      "call": "Young and keen",
      "alternates": [
        "Rugby team"
      ],
      "origin": "Rhymes with “fifteen”; a rugby union team fields fifteen players.",
      "type": "rhyme",
      "anchor": "number-15",
      "url": "https://snapbingox.com/blog/bingo-calls-nicknames#number-15"
    },
    {
      "number": 16,
      "call": "Sweet sixteen",
      "alternates": [
        "Never been kissed"
      ],
      "origin": "From the traditional coming-of-age phrase “sweet sixteen and never been kissed”.",
      "type": "culture",
      "anchor": "number-16",
      "url": "https://snapbingox.com/blog/bingo-calls-nicknames#number-16"
    },
    {
      "number": 17,
      "call": "Dancing queen",
      "alternates": [
        "Often been kissed"
      ],
      "origin": "From the ABBA song, whose lyric names seventeen.",
      "type": "culture",
      "anchor": "number-17",
      "url": "https://snapbingox.com/blog/bingo-calls-nicknames#number-17"
    },
    {
      "number": 18,
      "call": "Coming of age",
      "alternates": [
        "Now you can vote"
      ],
      "origin": "Eighteen is the age of legal adulthood in the UK.",
      "type": "milestone",
      "anchor": "number-18",
      "url": "https://snapbingox.com/blog/bingo-calls-nicknames#number-18"
    },
    {
      "number": 19,
      "call": "Goodbye teens",
      "alternates": [],
      "origin": "The last of the teenage years.",
      "type": "milestone",
      "anchor": "number-19",
      "url": "https://snapbingox.com/blog/bingo-calls-nicknames#number-19"
    },
    {
      "number": 20,
      "call": "One score",
      "alternates": [
        "Getting plenty",
        "Blind 20"
      ],
      "origin": "A score is twenty.",
      "type": "arithmetic",
      "anchor": "number-20",
      "url": "https://snapbingox.com/blog/bingo-calls-nicknames#number-20"
    },
    {
      "number": 21,
      "call": "Key of the door",
      "alternates": [
        "Royal salute"
      ],
      "origin": "Twenty-one was formerly the age of majority; a royal salute is twenty-one guns.",
      "type": "milestone",
      "anchor": "number-21",
      "url": "https://snapbingox.com/blog/bingo-calls-nicknames#number-21"
    },
    {
      "number": 22,
      "call": "Two little ducks",
      "alternates": [
        "All the twos"
      ],
      "origin": "The pair of 2s look like two ducks. The traditional crowd response is “quack quack”.",
      "type": "shape",
      "anchor": "number-22",
      "url": "https://snapbingox.com/blog/bingo-calls-nicknames#number-22"
    },
    {
      "number": 23,
      "call": "Thee and me",
      "alternates": [
        "The Lord is my shepherd"
      ],
      "origin": "Rhymes with “three”; also Psalm 23.",
      "type": "rhyme",
      "anchor": "number-23",
      "url": "https://snapbingox.com/blog/bingo-calls-nicknames#number-23"
    },
    {
      "number": 24,
      "call": "Two dozen",
      "alternates": [],
      "origin": "Two dozen is twenty-four.",
      "type": "arithmetic",
      "anchor": "number-24",
      "url": "https://snapbingox.com/blog/bingo-calls-nicknames#number-24"
    },
    {
      "number": 25,
      "call": "Duck and dive",
      "alternates": [],
      "origin": "The 2 is the duck; “dive” rhymes with the 5.",
      "type": "shape",
      "anchor": "number-25",
      "url": "https://snapbingox.com/blog/bingo-calls-nicknames#number-25"
    },
    {
      "number": 26,
      "call": "Half a crown",
      "alternates": [
        "Pick and mix",
        "Bed and breakfast"
      ],
      "origin": "The pre-decimal half-crown was worth two shillings and sixpence, written 2/6.",
      "type": "culture",
      "anchor": "number-26",
      "url": "https://snapbingox.com/blog/bingo-calls-nicknames#number-26"
    },
    {
      "number": 27,
      "call": "Gateway to heaven",
      "alternates": [
        "Duck and a crutch"
      ],
      "origin": "Rhymes with “seven”; the 2 is a duck and the 7 a crutch.",
      "type": "rhyme",
      "anchor": "number-27",
      "url": "https://snapbingox.com/blog/bingo-calls-nicknames#number-27"
    },
    {
      "number": 28,
      "call": "In a state",
      "alternates": [
        "Over weight",
        "Duck and its mate"
      ],
      "origin": "Rhymes with “eight”.",
      "type": "rhyme",
      "anchor": "number-28",
      "url": "https://snapbingox.com/blog/bingo-calls-nicknames#number-28"
    },
    {
      "number": 29,
      "call": "Rise and shine",
      "alternates": [],
      "origin": "Rhymes with “nine”.",
      "type": "rhyme",
      "anchor": "number-29",
      "url": "https://snapbingox.com/blog/bingo-calls-nicknames#number-29"
    },
    {
      "number": 30,
      "call": "Dirty Gertie",
      "alternates": [
        "Burlington Bertie",
        "Speed limit"
      ],
      "origin": "Rhyming slang, popularised by the wartime song “Dirty Gertie from Bizerte”.",
      "type": "culture",
      "anchor": "number-30",
      "url": "https://snapbingox.com/blog/bingo-calls-nicknames#number-30"
    },
    {
      "number": 31,
      "call": "Get up and run",
      "alternates": [],
      "origin": "Rhymes with “one”.",
      "type": "rhyme",
      "anchor": "number-31",
      "url": "https://snapbingox.com/blog/bingo-calls-nicknames#number-31"
    },
    {
      "number": 32,
      "call": "Buckle my shoe",
      "alternates": [],
      "origin": "From the nursery rhyme “One, two, buckle my shoe”.",
      "type": "culture",
      "anchor": "number-32",
      "url": "https://snapbingox.com/blog/bingo-calls-nicknames#number-32"
    },
    {
      "number": 33,
      "call": "All the threes",
      "alternates": [
        "Dirty knee",
        "Fish, chips and peas"
      ],
      "origin": "A doubles call; “dirty knee” is rhyming slang for thirty-three.",
      "type": "rhyme",
      "anchor": "number-33",
      "url": "https://snapbingox.com/blog/bingo-calls-nicknames#number-33"
    },
    {
      "number": 34,
      "call": "Ask for more",
      "alternates": [],
      "origin": "Rhymes with “four”.",
      "type": "rhyme",
      "anchor": "number-34",
      "url": "https://snapbingox.com/blog/bingo-calls-nicknames#number-34"
    },
    {
      "number": 35,
      "call": "Jump and jive",
      "alternates": [
        "Flirty wives"
      ],
      "origin": "Rhymes with “five”.",
      "type": "rhyme",
      "anchor": "number-35",
      "url": "https://snapbingox.com/blog/bingo-calls-nicknames#number-35"
    },
    {
      "number": 36,
      "call": "Three dozen",
      "alternates": [],
      "origin": "Three dozen is thirty-six.",
      "type": "arithmetic",
      "anchor": "number-36",
      "url": "https://snapbingox.com/blog/bingo-calls-nicknames#number-36"
    },
    {
      "number": 37,
      "call": "More than eleven",
      "alternates": [
        "A flea in heaven"
      ],
      "origin": "Rhymes with “seven”.",
      "type": "rhyme",
      "anchor": "number-37",
      "url": "https://snapbingox.com/blog/bingo-calls-nicknames#number-37"
    },
    {
      "number": 38,
      "call": "Christmas cake",
      "alternates": [],
      "origin": "Rhymes with “eight”.",
      "type": "rhyme",
      "anchor": "number-38",
      "url": "https://snapbingox.com/blog/bingo-calls-nicknames#number-38"
    },
    {
      "number": 39,
      "call": "Steps",
      "alternates": [
        "Those famous steps",
        "Jack Benny"
      ],
      "origin": "From John Buchan's novel and Hitchcock's film “The 39 Steps”.",
      "type": "culture",
      "anchor": "number-39",
      "url": "https://snapbingox.com/blog/bingo-calls-nicknames#number-39"
    },
    {
      "number": 40,
      "call": "Life begins",
      "alternates": [
        "Naughty forty"
      ],
      "origin": "From the saying “life begins at forty”.",
      "type": "milestone",
      "anchor": "number-40",
      "url": "https://snapbingox.com/blog/bingo-calls-nicknames#number-40"
    },
    {
      "number": 41,
      "call": "Time for fun",
      "alternates": [
        "Life's begun"
      ],
      "origin": "Rhymes with “one”.",
      "type": "rhyme",
      "anchor": "number-41",
      "url": "https://snapbingox.com/blog/bingo-calls-nicknames#number-41"
    },
    {
      "number": 42,
      "call": "Winnie the Pooh",
      "alternates": [
        "That famous street in Manhattan"
      ],
      "origin": "Rhymes with “two”.",
      "type": "rhyme",
      "anchor": "number-42",
      "url": "https://snapbingox.com/blog/bingo-calls-nicknames#number-42"
    },
    {
      "number": 43,
      "call": "Down on your knees",
      "alternates": [
        "Danny Dyer"
      ],
      "origin": "Rhymes loosely with “threes”; a wartime call.",
      "type": "rhyme",
      "anchor": "number-43",
      "url": "https://snapbingox.com/blog/bingo-calls-nicknames#number-43"
    },
    {
      "number": 44,
      "call": "Droopy drawers",
      "alternates": [
        "All the fours"
      ],
      "origin": "Comic rhyming reference to the shape of the two 4s.",
      "type": "shape",
      "anchor": "number-44",
      "url": "https://snapbingox.com/blog/bingo-calls-nicknames#number-44"
    },
    {
      "number": 45,
      "call": "Halfway there",
      "alternates": [
        "Cowboy's friend"
      ],
      "origin": "Forty-five is the midpoint of ninety.",
      "type": "milestone",
      "anchor": "number-45",
      "url": "https://snapbingox.com/blog/bingo-calls-nicknames#number-45"
    },
    {
      "number": 46,
      "call": "Up to tricks",
      "alternates": [],
      "origin": "Rhymes with “six”.",
      "type": "rhyme",
      "anchor": "number-46",
      "url": "https://snapbingox.com/blog/bingo-calls-nicknames#number-46"
    },
    {
      "number": 47,
      "call": "Four and seven",
      "alternates": [
        "Lucky seven"
      ],
      "origin": "A plain digit call.",
      "type": "digits",
      "anchor": "number-47",
      "url": "https://snapbingox.com/blog/bingo-calls-nicknames#number-47"
    },
    {
      "number": 48,
      "call": "Four dozen",
      "alternates": [],
      "origin": "Four dozen is forty-eight.",
      "type": "arithmetic",
      "anchor": "number-48",
      "url": "https://snapbingox.com/blog/bingo-calls-nicknames#number-48"
    },
    {
      "number": 49,
      "call": "PC",
      "alternates": [
        "Copper",
        "Rise and shine"
      ],
      "origin": "From the 1940s BBC radio series “PC 49”.",
      "type": "culture",
      "anchor": "number-49",
      "url": "https://snapbingox.com/blog/bingo-calls-nicknames#number-49"
    },
    {
      "number": 50,
      "call": "Half a century",
      "alternates": [
        "Bullseye",
        "Five-oh"
      ],
      "origin": "Half of a hundred; a darts bullseye scores fifty.",
      "type": "arithmetic",
      "anchor": "number-50",
      "url": "https://snapbingox.com/blog/bingo-calls-nicknames#number-50"
    },
    {
      "number": 51,
      "call": "Tweak of the thumb",
      "alternates": [
        "I love my mum"
      ],
      "origin": "Rhymes with “one”.",
      "type": "rhyme",
      "anchor": "number-51",
      "url": "https://snapbingox.com/blog/bingo-calls-nicknames#number-51"
    },
    {
      "number": 52,
      "call": "Danny La Rue",
      "alternates": [
        "Deck of cards",
        "Chicken vindaloo"
      ],
      "origin": "Rhymes with “two”; also the fifty-two cards in a deck.",
      "type": "rhyme",
      "anchor": "number-52",
      "url": "https://snapbingox.com/blog/bingo-calls-nicknames#number-52"
    },
    {
      "number": 53,
      "call": "Here comes Herbie",
      "alternates": [
        "Stuck in a tree"
      ],
      "origin": "Herbie, the racing Volkswagen, carries the number 53.",
      "type": "culture",
      "anchor": "number-53",
      "url": "https://snapbingox.com/blog/bingo-calls-nicknames#number-53"
    },
    {
      "number": 54,
      "call": "Clean the floor",
      "alternates": [
        "Man at the door"
      ],
      "origin": "Rhymes with “four”.",
      "type": "rhyme",
      "anchor": "number-54",
      "url": "https://snapbingox.com/blog/bingo-calls-nicknames#number-54"
    },
    {
      "number": 55,
      "call": "Snakes alive",
      "alternates": [
        "All the fives"
      ],
      "origin": "The two 5s look like a pair of snakes.",
      "type": "shape",
      "anchor": "number-55",
      "url": "https://snapbingox.com/blog/bingo-calls-nicknames#number-55"
    },
    {
      "number": 56,
      "call": "Was she worth it?",
      "alternates": [
        "Shotts bus"
      ],
      "origin": "Five shillings and sixpence (5/6) was the pre-decimal cost of a marriage licence; the crowd replies “every penny”.",
      "type": "culture",
      "anchor": "number-56",
      "url": "https://snapbingox.com/blog/bingo-calls-nicknames#number-56"
    },
    {
      "number": 57,
      "call": "Heinz varieties",
      "alternates": [
        "All the beans"
      ],
      "origin": "From the Heinz “57 varieties” slogan.",
      "type": "culture",
      "anchor": "number-57",
      "url": "https://snapbingox.com/blog/bingo-calls-nicknames#number-57"
    },
    {
      "number": 58,
      "call": "Make them wait",
      "alternates": [
        "Choo choo Thomas"
      ],
      "origin": "Rhymes with “eight”.",
      "type": "rhyme",
      "anchor": "number-58",
      "url": "https://snapbingox.com/blog/bingo-calls-nicknames#number-58"
    },
    {
      "number": 59,
      "call": "Brighton line",
      "alternates": [],
      "origin": "Named after a long-established transport route numbered 59.",
      "type": "culture",
      "anchor": "number-59",
      "url": "https://snapbingox.com/blog/bingo-calls-nicknames#number-59"
    },
    {
      "number": 60,
      "call": "Five dozen",
      "alternates": [
        "Grandma's getting frisky",
        "Three score"
      ],
      "origin": "Five dozen is sixty.",
      "type": "arithmetic",
      "anchor": "number-60",
      "url": "https://snapbingox.com/blog/bingo-calls-nicknames#number-60"
    },
    {
      "number": 61,
      "call": "Baker's bun",
      "alternates": [],
      "origin": "Rhymes with “one”.",
      "type": "rhyme",
      "anchor": "number-61",
      "url": "https://snapbingox.com/blog/bingo-calls-nicknames#number-61"
    },
    {
      "number": 62,
      "call": "Tickety-boo",
      "alternates": [
        "Turn on the screw"
      ],
      "origin": "Rhymes with “two”.",
      "type": "rhyme",
      "anchor": "number-62",
      "url": "https://snapbingox.com/blog/bingo-calls-nicknames#number-62"
    },
    {
      "number": 63,
      "call": "Tickle me",
      "alternates": [],
      "origin": "Rhymes with “three”.",
      "type": "rhyme",
      "anchor": "number-63",
      "url": "https://snapbingox.com/blog/bingo-calls-nicknames#number-63"
    },
    {
      "number": 64,
      "call": "Almost retired",
      "alternates": [
        "The Beatles number"
      ],
      "origin": "One year short of the traditional retirement age; also the Beatles song “When I'm Sixty-Four”.",
      "type": "milestone",
      "anchor": "number-64",
      "url": "https://snapbingox.com/blog/bingo-calls-nicknames#number-64"
    },
    {
      "number": 65,
      "call": "Old age pension",
      "alternates": [
        "Stop work",
        "Retirement age"
      ],
      "origin": "Sixty-five was the traditional UK state pension age.",
      "type": "milestone",
      "anchor": "number-65",
      "url": "https://snapbingox.com/blog/bingo-calls-nicknames#number-65"
    },
    {
      "number": 66,
      "call": "Clickety click",
      "alternates": [
        "All the sixes"
      ],
      "origin": "The rhythm of the two 6s, echoing train wheels on rails.",
      "type": "rhyme",
      "anchor": "number-66",
      "url": "https://snapbingox.com/blog/bingo-calls-nicknames#number-66"
    },
    {
      "number": 67,
      "call": "Stairway to heaven",
      "alternates": [
        "Made in heaven"
      ],
      "origin": "Rhymes with “seven”.",
      "type": "rhyme",
      "anchor": "number-67",
      "url": "https://snapbingox.com/blog/bingo-calls-nicknames#number-67"
    },
    {
      "number": 68,
      "call": "Saving grace",
      "alternates": [
        "Pick a mate"
      ],
      "origin": "Rhymes with “eight”.",
      "type": "rhyme",
      "anchor": "number-68",
      "url": "https://snapbingox.com/blog/bingo-calls-nicknames#number-68"
    },
    {
      "number": 69,
      "call": "Either way up",
      "alternates": [
        "Anyway up",
        "Meal for two"
      ],
      "origin": "The number reads the same when turned upside down.",
      "type": "shape",
      "anchor": "number-69",
      "url": "https://snapbingox.com/blog/bingo-calls-nicknames#number-69"
    },
    {
      "number": 70,
      "call": "Three score and ten",
      "alternates": [],
      "origin": "The biblical span of a human life, from Psalm 90.",
      "type": "culture",
      "anchor": "number-70",
      "url": "https://snapbingox.com/blog/bingo-calls-nicknames#number-70"
    },
    {
      "number": 71,
      "call": "Bang on the drum",
      "alternates": [
        "J-Lo"
      ],
      "origin": "Rhymes with “one”.",
      "type": "rhyme",
      "anchor": "number-71",
      "url": "https://snapbingox.com/blog/bingo-calls-nicknames#number-71"
    },
    {
      "number": 72,
      "call": "Six dozen",
      "alternates": [
        "Par for the course"
      ],
      "origin": "Six dozen is seventy-two.",
      "type": "arithmetic",
      "anchor": "number-72",
      "url": "https://snapbingox.com/blog/bingo-calls-nicknames#number-72"
    },
    {
      "number": 73,
      "call": "Queen bee",
      "alternates": [
        "Under the tree",
        "Lucky 3"
      ],
      "origin": "Rhymes with “three”.",
      "type": "rhyme",
      "anchor": "number-73",
      "url": "https://snapbingox.com/blog/bingo-calls-nicknames#number-73"
    },
    {
      "number": 74,
      "call": "Hit the floor",
      "alternates": [
        "Candy store"
      ],
      "origin": "Rhymes with “four”.",
      "type": "rhyme",
      "anchor": "number-74",
      "url": "https://snapbingox.com/blog/bingo-calls-nicknames#number-74"
    },
    {
      "number": 75,
      "call": "Strive and strive",
      "alternates": [
        "Big Daddy"
      ],
      "origin": "Rhymes with “five”.",
      "type": "rhyme",
      "anchor": "number-75",
      "url": "https://snapbingox.com/blog/bingo-calls-nicknames#number-75"
    },
    {
      "number": 76,
      "call": "Trombones",
      "alternates": [
        "Was she worth it?"
      ],
      "origin": "From “Seventy-Six Trombones” in the musical The Music Man.",
      "type": "culture",
      "anchor": "number-76",
      "url": "https://snapbingox.com/blog/bingo-calls-nicknames#number-76"
    },
    {
      "number": 77,
      "call": "Sunset Strip",
      "alternates": [
        "Two little crutches",
        "Two hockey sticks"
      ],
      "origin": "From the TV series “77 Sunset Strip”; the two 7s also look like hockey sticks or crutches.",
      "type": "culture",
      "anchor": "number-77",
      "url": "https://snapbingox.com/blog/bingo-calls-nicknames#number-77"
    },
    {
      "number": 78,
      "call": "39 more steps",
      "alternates": [
        "Heaven's gate",
        "Lucky 78"
      ],
      "origin": "Twice thirty-nine, the number of “The 39 Steps”.",
      "type": "arithmetic",
      "anchor": "number-78",
      "url": "https://snapbingox.com/blog/bingo-calls-nicknames#number-78"
    },
    {
      "number": 79,
      "call": "One more time",
      "alternates": [],
      "origin": "Rhymes with “nine”.",
      "type": "rhyme",
      "anchor": "number-79",
      "url": "https://snapbingox.com/blog/bingo-calls-nicknames#number-79"
    },
    {
      "number": 80,
      "call": "Gandhi's breakfast",
      "alternates": [
        "Eight and blank",
        "There you go, matey"
      ],
      "origin": "A pun on “ate nothing” — an 8 and a 0.",
      "type": "pun",
      "anchor": "number-80",
      "url": "https://snapbingox.com/blog/bingo-calls-nicknames#number-80"
    },
    {
      "number": 81,
      "call": "Stop and run",
      "alternates": [
        "Fat lady with a walking stick"
      ],
      "origin": "Rhymes with “one”; the 8 is the fat lady and the 1 her stick.",
      "type": "shape",
      "anchor": "number-81",
      "url": "https://snapbingox.com/blog/bingo-calls-nicknames#number-81"
    },
    {
      "number": 82,
      "call": "Straight on through",
      "alternates": [
        "Fat lady with a duck"
      ],
      "origin": "Rhymes with “two”; the 8 is the fat lady and the 2 a duck.",
      "type": "shape",
      "anchor": "number-82",
      "url": "https://snapbingox.com/blog/bingo-calls-nicknames#number-82"
    },
    {
      "number": 83,
      "call": "Time for tea",
      "alternates": [
        "Fat lady with a flea"
      ],
      "origin": "Rhymes with “three”.",
      "type": "shape",
      "anchor": "number-83",
      "url": "https://snapbingox.com/blog/bingo-calls-nicknames#number-83"
    },
    {
      "number": 84,
      "call": "Seven dozen",
      "alternates": [
        "Give me more"
      ],
      "origin": "Seven dozen is eighty-four.",
      "type": "arithmetic",
      "anchor": "number-84",
      "url": "https://snapbingox.com/blog/bingo-calls-nicknames#number-84"
    },
    {
      "number": 85,
      "call": "Staying alive",
      "alternates": [
        "Ladies with a hive"
      ],
      "origin": "Rhymes with “five”; also the Bee Gees song.",
      "type": "rhyme",
      "anchor": "number-85",
      "url": "https://snapbingox.com/blog/bingo-calls-nicknames#number-85"
    },
    {
      "number": 86,
      "call": "Between the sticks",
      "alternates": [
        "Ladies with a trick"
      ],
      "origin": "Rhymes with “six”; “between the sticks” is the goalkeeper's position.",
      "type": "rhyme",
      "anchor": "number-86",
      "url": "https://snapbingox.com/blog/bingo-calls-nicknames#number-86"
    },
    {
      "number": 87,
      "call": "Torquay in Devon",
      "alternates": [
        "Fat lady with a crutch"
      ],
      "origin": "Rhymes with “seven”; the 7 is the crutch.",
      "type": "rhyme",
      "anchor": "number-87",
      "url": "https://snapbingox.com/blog/bingo-calls-nicknames#number-87"
    },
    {
      "number": 88,
      "call": "Two fat ladies",
      "alternates": [
        "All the eights",
        "Wobbly wobbly"
      ],
      "origin": "The curvy 8s side by side. The traditional crowd response is “wobble wobble”.",
      "type": "shape",
      "anchor": "number-88",
      "url": "https://snapbingox.com/blog/bingo-calls-nicknames#number-88"
    },
    {
      "number": 89,
      "call": "Nearly there",
      "alternates": [
        "Almost there",
        "All but one"
      ],
      "origin": "One short of the highest number in the game.",
      "type": "milestone",
      "anchor": "number-89",
      "url": "https://snapbingox.com/blog/bingo-calls-nicknames#number-89"
    },
    {
      "number": 90,
      "call": "Top of the shop",
      "alternates": [
        "End of the line",
        "As far as we go"
      ],
      "origin": "Ninety is the highest number in 90-ball bingo.",
      "type": "milestone",
      "anchor": "number-90",
      "url": "https://snapbingox.com/blog/bingo-calls-nicknames#number-90"
    }
  ]
}