Usually means: Precision cue sport with balls.
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General (22 matching dictionaries)
  1. snooker: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. snooker: Merriam-Webster
  3. snooker: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. snooker: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. snooker: Collins English Dictionary
  6. snooker: Vocabulary.com
  7. Snooker, snooker: Wordnik
  8. snooker: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. snooker: Wiktionary
  10. snooker: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. snooker: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. snooker: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. snooker: Dictionary.com
  14. snooker: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. Snooker (disambiguation), Snooker (video game), Snooker: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. snooker: Rhymezone
  17. snooker, snooker, snooker: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. snooker: FreeDictionary.org
  19. snooker: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. snooker: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. snooker: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. snooker: Wordcraft Dictionary

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. snooker, snooker: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. snooker: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Snooker: Sports Definitions

(Note: See snookered as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A cue sport, popular in the UK and other Commonwealth of Nations countries.
noun:  (snooker, pool) The situation where the cue ball is in such a position that the player cannot directly hit a legal ball with it.
verb:  (intransitive) To play the game of snooker.
verb:  (transitive) To fool or bamboozle.
verb:  (transitive, snooker, pool) To place the cue ball in such a position that (the opponent) cannot directly hit the required ball with it.
verb:  (transitive, by extension) To put (someone) in a difficult situation.
verb:  To become or cause to become inebriated.

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