Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Pocket billiards played with 15 red balls and 6 balls of other colors.
- transitive verb To lead (another) into a situation in which all possible choices are undesirable; trap.
- transitive verb To fool; dupe.
- transitive verb To leave one's opponent in the game of snooker unable to take a direct shot without striking a ball out of the required order.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A game played with balls on a billiard table.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
cue sport , popular in the UK and otherCommonwealth of Nations countries. - verb To play snooker.
- verb To fool or
bamboozle . - verb snooker, pool To place the
cue ball in such a position that the opponent cannot directly hit his/her required ball with it. - verb To become or cause to become
inebriated .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb leave one's opponent unable to take a direct shot
- verb fool or dupe
- noun a form of pool played with 15 red balls and six balls of other colors and a cue ball
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The real fascination in snooker is watching one of the top players pot and position themselves, time and again.
Suttree » Casual Games, Social Software » Casual semantics 2005
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He’s close to being right too, except that the magic in snooker is all to do with the magic of the rolling ball.
Suttree » Casual Games, Social Software » Casual semantics 2005
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Using the word snooker, primary school pupils sent in hundreds of entries.
unknown title 2009
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But then he’s also tell you that snooker is all about tidying up.
Suttree » Casual Games, Social Software » Casual semantics 2005
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In the 19th century, a snooker was a newly joined and easily fooled British cadet; the name was applied to this form of pool in 1875 by subalterns in India.
The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time William Safire 2004
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In the 19th century, a snooker was a newly joined and easily fooled British cadet; the name was applied to this form of pool in 1875 by subalterns in India.
The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time William Safire 2004
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Cancer-ravaged Alex Higgins - dubbed snooker's 'People's Champion' - was found dead and alone in bed at his humble flat yesterday.
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It has been described as snooker's equivalent of Twenty20.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2010
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Cancer-ravaged Alex Higgins - dubbed snooker's 'People's Champion' - was found dead and alone in bed at his humble flat yesterday.
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It has been described as snooker's version of Twenty/20 cricket.
RTÉ News 2009
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And Subaltern Neville Chamberlain and his colleagues did indeed while away the monsoon afternoons at Jubbulpore in 1875 playing a game which they christened ‘snooker’, after the slang term for a first-year army cadet (from the French for ‘novice’).
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slumry commented on the word snooker
I think if you have been snookered, you have been bamboozled.
June 27, 2007
shevek commented on the word snooker
I love watching this game! Especially when the commentator speaks a language I don't understand...
July 22, 2008