Angle

A wrestling plot which may involve only one match or may continue over several matches for some time; the reason behind a feud or a turn.

Blade

The practice of cutting oneself or being cut with a part of a razor blade. Also known as juicing

Blow up

To become fatigued or exhausted. The Ultimate Warrior was said to be one of a number of wrestlers who blows up on the entry ramp.

Booker

The individual responsible for angles, finishes, hiring and firing in a promotion

Bump

 A fall or hit done as a spot (see spot) which takes the wrestler (or other participant, i.e. referee, manager) out of the ring or out of action

Card

The series of matches in a wrestling event

Draw

To attract marks. n. the popularity of a wrestler, the ability to bring in marks.

DUD

A particularly bad and totally uninteresting match

Face

A fan favorite. A wrestler who plays the good guy

Fall

A referee's count of three with the loser's shoulders on the mat.

Feud

A series of matches between two wrestlers or two tag teams, usually face vs. heel though face feuds and heel feuds are not unknown

Green

Not good due to inexperience.

Hard way

Real blood produced by means other than blading, i.e. the hard way. One of the possible outcomes of a shoot.

Heat

Enthusiasm, a positive/negative response

Heel

A bad guy in a federation. A heel often breaks the rules and receives a bad poor/hated response from the fans.

House

The wrestling audience in the building said to be composed of marks

International Object

Foreign object, something now allowed in the ring. Derived from an order not to use the world foreign by the Turner Broadcasting Company

Job

A staged loss. A clean job is a staged loss by legal pin fall or submission without 

Resort to Illegalities

To do a job. Sometimes combined with a descriptive adjective (stretcher job, rope job, tights job.)

Jobber

An un-pushed wrestler who does jobs for pushed wrestlers. Barry Horowitz is probably the best known of these. Sometimes known as fish, red shirts PLs (professional losers,) or' ham-and-eggers.' Steve Lombardi (Brooklyn Brawler) is also a well known jobber.

Kayfabe

Of or related to inside information about the business, especially by fans. Origin is carny jargon talk for fake

Kill

Diminish or eliminate heat or drawing power. There are a variety of ways to do this, but mostly it is done by having a wrestler do too many jobs. A house can be killed by too many screw-job endings

Mark

A member of the audience, presumed gullible

Paper

Complimentary tickets. To give lots of complimentary tickets to make a house look good, particularly for a television taping

Pop

Sudden heat from a house as a response to a wrestler's entry or hot move.

Post

To run or be run into the ring post

Potato

To injure a wrestler by hitting him on the head or causing him to hit his head on something. 

Run-In

Interference by a non-participant in a match. save n. a run-in to protect a wrestler from being beat up after a match is over

Screw Job

A match or ending which is not clean (definite) due to factors outside the rules of wrestling.

Shoot

The real thing, i.e. a match where one participant is really attempting to hurt another. The opposite of work or fake.

Spot

An event or sequence of events which makes a particular match distinctive, a high-point of a match.

Squash

A totally passive job where one wrestler completely dominates another. v.t. to win a squash match

Stick

The Microphone

Stiff Chops 

Hits or moves which cause real injury (though perhaps not more than a welting up of the opponent.) Big Van Vader has a reputation as a stiff worker. Not a shoot, but almost. 

Stretch

A form of shoot where one wrestler dominates rather than injures the other as a proof of personal superiority

Turn

Change in orientation from heel to face or vice-versa

Work

A deception or sham, the opposite of a shoot

Workrate

the approximate ratio of good wrestling to rest holds in a match or in a wrestler's performance