Welcome to The World of Pickleball Vocabulary. If you are starting to get into pickleball, you will find it impacts parts of your life that you could never have imagined. One such area is vocabulary. You will find that your conversation is now peppered with words that no-one other than other pickle-ballers will understand. In an effort to ease your journey into this brave new world here is a glossary of the most important new words you need to understand. Newbie - This is a a person that turns up at your regular pickleball session, who everyone pretends they are pleased to welcome in, but then spends the next 2 hours trying to avoid actually playing in case they can't even hit the ball. Banger - Term that sounds like a compliment but is actually just a way to describe someone who has not been able to master the third shot drop. Raw Carbon - A term used to so you can look condescendingly at other players as in: ...