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(snooker) The highest score possible in one visit to the table in snooker.
n
(literally, billiards) The eighth numbered ball.
n
The ball marked with the number 1 in pool and related games.
n
A sport, somewhat like volleyball, in which the players compete while on a trampoline
n
(slang, uncountable, humorous, derogatory) American football (the sport).
n
(billiards) In the balk-line game, any of eight spaces, 7 × 3½ inches, lying along a cushion and bisected transversely by a balk line. Object balls in an anchor space are treated as in balk.
v
(transitive, cue sports) To hamper (oneself or one's opponent) by leaving the cue ball in the jaws of a pocket such that the surround of the pocket (the "angle") blocks the path from cue ball to object ball.
n
A game similar to billiards played on an oblong table with pockets or arches at one end only.
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(snooker) The area of the table lying behind the baulk line.
n
In billiards, a circumstance in which a fault by another player, such as a scratch, permits the competitor to take the cue ball in hand and place it anywhere on the table.
n
(pinball) The loss of a ball when it falls into the table's outhole.
n
(snooker, pool) A ramp inside the table, down which balls roll so they can be accessed.
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A form of pool (pocket billiards) in which all scoring shots are made by banking a called ball off a cushion and into a called pocket.
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(snooker, pool, billiards) A shot in which the player causes the cue ball or an object ball to rebound off a cushion.
n
(snooker) Any one of the three colours normally spotted on the baulk line in snooker. Namely the yellow, green, and brown balls.
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(snooker) The end of a snooker table where the green, brown and yellow balls are initially placed
n
(snooker) The line at the baulk end of a snooker table, upon which the green, yellow and brown balls are initially placed.
n
(golf) Synonym of fourball
n
(sports) In the games of crown green bowls and lawn bowls: a weight added to one side of a bowl so that as it rolls, it will follow a curved rather than a straight path; the oblique line followed by such a bowl; the lopsided shape or structure of such a bowl. In lawn bowls, the curved course is caused only by the shape of the bowl. The use of weights is prohibited.
n
(obsolete) A coalfish, especially a young one.
n
(attributive) Pertaining to the game of billiards.
n
Any of the balls used in billiards
n
(sports, billiards, snooker) A heavy felt-covered table fitted with six pockets along the perimeter used in the games of pool, billiards or snooker.
n
A free turn in a handicap croquet match.
n
(billiards, snooker, pool, countable) The black ball.
n
A form of the game of pool, mainly played in the 19th century, and later merged with pyramid pool to create the game of snooker.
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(snooker) The spot on a snooker table where the black ball is normally placed.
n
(snooker) One of the colour balls used in snooker, with a value of five points.
n
(snooker) The spot on a snooker table where the blue ball is normally placed.
n
Alternative spelling of bocce [(sports, uncountable) A game, similar to bowls or pétanque, played on a long, narrow, dirt-covered court]
n
A ball used in the game of bowls
v
(intransitive, billiards, snooker, pool) To make the first shot; to scatter the balls from the initial neat arrangement.
n
(snooker) The act or skill of scoring points by making an uninterrupted series of pots.
n
(billiards, snooker) The first shot in a game of snooker or other cue-game
n
(billiards) A shot in which the cue ball is initially driven against the cushion.
n
(billiards, snooker, pool) A particular form of one hand placed on the table to support the cue when making a shot in cue sports.
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(snooker, countable) One of the colour balls used in snooker, with a value of 4 points.
n
(snooker, countable) The spot on a snooker table where the brown ball is normally placed.
n
(darts) The two central rings on a dartboard.
n
(snooker, slang) The jaw of either of the middle pockets.
n
(billiards) A side wall of a pool table.
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(US) A variant of bar billiards
v
(sports, billiards, snooker, pool) To play the carom billiard shot; to strike two balls with the cue ball.
n
(countable, cue sports, especially billiards) A shot in which the ball struck with the cue comes in contact with two or more balls on the table; a hitting of two or more balls with the player's ball.
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A family of billiards games generally played on cloth-covered, pocketless tables, which often feature heated slate beds, typically having as the objective to score points or "counts" by caroming one's own cue ball off both the opponent's cue ball and the object ball(s) on a single shot.
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Any of a set of plugs placed in the pockets of a pocket billiards table so that carom can be played.
n
Alternative spelling of carom [(countable, cue sports, especially billiards) A shot in which the ball struck with the cue comes in contact with two or more balls on the table; a hitting of two or more balls with the player's ball.]
n
(snooker) A consecutive score of 100 or more points in one visit to the table in a frame of snooker.
v
(billiards, snooker) To pot a ball in the edge, rather than the middle, of a pocket.
n
(billiards, snooker) The extent to which a pocket is cheatable
adj
(billiards, snooker, of a pocket) Able to be potted at either edge rather than in the middle
n
(sports, billiards, snooker, pool) A sidespin of the cue ball which makes it bounce off the cush, or off another ball, at a shallower angle than normal.
n
Alternative form of check side [(sports, billiards, snooker, pool) A sidespin of the cue ball which makes it bounce off the cush, or off another ball, at a shallower angle than normal.]
n
(billiards, snooker) An indentation in the slate of a table that affects the path of a ball travelling over it
n
A pocket billiards game for two players, combining the play of eight-ball (except by shooting object balls into the cue ball instead of the other way round) with the shooting style of carom billiards games.
n
Alternative spelling of Chinese snooker [(snooker) A reverse snooker position where the cue ball is in front of, rather than behind, a ball that is not on, making the shot very difficult because the bridge is hampered and the cueing angle is unnaturally high.]
n
(tennis) A weak groundstroke followed immediately by an advance towards the net.
v
(snooker, billiards, intransitive) To pot all of the remaining balls in a single turn.
n
(sports, billiards, snooker, pool) The act of potting all the remaining balls on a table at one visit.
n
(snooker) A type of double of the called ball off three cushions, usually around the colours, with the aim of potting into the centre pocket while keeping the cue ball safe.
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(snooker) Any of the colored balls excluding the reds.
n
(billiards) A combination shot; a billiard; a shot where the cue ball hits a ball that strikes another ball on the table.
n
(billiards, snooker) A fluke in which a pot or snooker is obtained by accident
n
A point scored in this variety of pocket billiards.
n
(uncountable, games) A game played on a lawn, in which players use mallets to drive balls through hoops (wickets).
adj
(billiards) Lying within one of the crotches on the table.
v
(sports, billiards, snooker, pool) To take aim on the cue ball with the cue and hit it.
n
(snooker, pool, billiards) The white ball which, struck by the cue, collides with the other balls to achieve the object of the particular game.
n
(sports) A game played with a cue and balls, such as billiards.
v
(sports, billiards, snooker, pool) To take aim on the cue ball with the cue in a game of snooker, or billiards, etc.
n
(pool, billiards, snooker) A manufacturer of cues
n
One who plays a cue sport.
n
The art or skill of playing a cue sport.
n
(rare) Alternative spelling of cue sport [(sports) A game played with a cue and balls, such as billiards.]
n
cue; the stick used to propel the ball in snooker, billiards, etc.
n
(sports, billiards, snooker, pool) The lip around a table in cue sports which absorbs some of the impact of the billiard balls and bounces them back.
n
(snooker) The semicircle on the baulk line, inside which the cue ball must be placed at a break-off.
adv
(of a shot in snooker or other cue sports) With just enough weight for a ball to drop into a pocket, or come to rest in a precisely determined position.
v
(snooker, pool) To cause a ball to become more open and available to be played on later. Usually by moving it away from the cushion, or by opening a pack.
n
(billiards) A strike in which the object ball is struck so as to make it rebound against the cushion to an opposite pocket.
n
(cue sports) The event of the cue ball making contact twice with the object ball. The second contact normally occurs after one or both balls have bounced off a cushion, and is not normally intentional.
v
(transitive, golf, pocket billiards) To sink (a ball) into a hole or pocket.
n
(countable, snooker) A large amount of backspin on the cue ball, causing the cue ball to slow down.
v
(billiards) To strike (the cue ball) below the center so as to give it a backward rotation which causes it to take a backward direction on striking another ball.
n
A game played by bowling a small ball at such pins.
v
(pool) To pot all one's colour balls and then the black ball (or eight-ball) without the opponent potting a single one.
n
Alternative form of eight-ball [(uncountable) A pocket billiards (pool) game played with sixteen balls (a cue ball and fifteen object balls) on a pool table with six pockets.]
n
A hybrid form of carom and pocket billiards played on a billiard table, for two players or teams.
n
(snooker) A successful shot from a snooker position.
n
(snooker) A spider (type of rest) in which the head is extended in front in order to reach over intervening balls
v
(snooker, billiards) To accidentally touch the cue ball with the tip of the cue when taking aim.
adv
(pool, billiards) In a manner so that the driven ball strikes the object ball so far to one side as to be barely deflected, the object ball being driven to one side.
n
(tennis) A powerful underarm volley shot.
n
(billiards) The end of a billiard or pool table behind the foot point where the balls are racked.
n
(snooker) A complete game of snooker, from break-off until all the balls (or as many as necessary to win) have been potted.
n
(sports, snooker) The ball that will take the player's score past the theoretical winning point, even though the frame is not finished and there are still some balls remaining on the table.
v
(snooker, pool) To pot the cue ball accidentally after hitting the object ball.
n
(pinball) A hole in a pinball table that ends play of the current ball if the ball falls down it.
n
(snooker) One of the colour balls used in snooker, with a value of 3 points.
n
(snooker) The corner pocket on a snooker table that is nearest the green spot.
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(snooker) The spot on a snooker table where the green ball is normally placed.
v
(pinball) To maneuver one's body while playing, in an attempt to influence the path of the ball.
v
(transitive) To send (a bowling ball) into the gutter, not hitting any pins.
n
(snooker) An extra long snooker cue and bridge used to reach the cue ball when at the far end of the table.
n
(billiards) a player's front hand formed to position their cue while making a shot
n
(sports, billiards, snooker, pool) A ball that is in the jaws of a pocket
n
(billiards) The act of potting a ball, whether the object ball (winning hazard) or the player's ball (losing hazard).
n
(billiards, snooker) A series of successful shots that is lengthy for the player's level of skill
n
(snooker, pool) The situation where the cue ball goes into a pocket after striking the object ball.
n
(pinball) One of the inner lanes near the bottom of a pinball table that lead the ball toward the flippers.
n
(billiards) A player (or team)'s turn at the table to make shots until ended by a miss or a foul.
n
(snooker) The curved part of the cushion marking the entry to the pocket.
n
The bridge or rest for the cue in billiards.
n
A pocket billiards game using numbered markers, called peas or pills, and a standard set of sixteen pool balls. Players draw peas at random from a shake bottle, which assigns to them the correspondingly numbered pool ball, kept secret from their opponents, but which they must pocket in order to win the game.
n
(sports, billiards, snooker, pool) The curved part of the cushion at the entrance to the pockets on a cue sports table.
n
(snooker) A method of deciding which player shall start. Both players simultaneously strike a cue ball from the baulk line to hit the top cushion and rebound down the table; the player whose ball finishes closest to the baulk cushion wins.
n
tennis played on a grass court
n
(billiards) The arrangement of balls in play that remains after a shot is made (which determines whether the next shooter — who may be either the same player, or an opponent — has good options, or only poor ones).
n
(English billiards) The situation where one's cue ball bounces off another ball and then sinks into a pocket. If the ball bounced off is the red ball, then three points are scored; but if it is the opponent's cue ball, then two points are scored.
n
(billiards, snooker) A stroke made with the cue held vertically that causes a billiard ball to move in an arc.
n
(obsolete, billiards) A type of heavy cue, with the broad end of which one strikes the ball.
n
(colloquial, darts) A score of 180 with three darts.
n
(snooker) The highest score possible in one visit to the table in a frame of snooker, by potting all fifteen reds with fifteen blacks and the six colours in order.
n
(real tennis, squash, racquetball) The point where the wall of the court meets the floor.
n
Alternative spelling of nine-ball [A form of pool in which players must hit with the cue ball the object ball with the lowest numerical value, but may legally pot any ball apart from the white; whichever player pots the nine ball wins the game.]
n
A form of pool in which players must hit with the cue ball the object ball with the lowest numerical value, but may legally pot any ball apart from the white; whichever player pots the nine ball wins the game.
n
The wooden pin used in the game of ninepins; a skittle.
n
(billiards) A form of billiards in which player must name their shots in advance, with a penalty for failing to achieve them.
n
a game closely related to carom, and pocket billiards.
v
(billiards, transitive) To strike (billiard balls) gently, so as to keep them in good position during a series of shots.
n
(billiards) A carom shot involving balls that are very close together.
n
(snooker, billiards) The ball which the cue ball is intended to hit.
n
(billiards) A pool game in which points are scored by potting balls into specific designated pockets.
n
(snooker, pool) A tight group of object balls in cue sports. Usually the reds in snooker.
n
(historical) A 17th-century game in which a ball was driven along an alley and through a hoop using a mallet.
n
A slender object specially designed for use in a specific game or sport, such as skittles or bowling.
n
A variety of the game of billiards in which small wooden pins are set up to be knocked down by the balls.
n
(snooker) One of the colour balls used in snooker, coloured pink, with a value of 6 points.
n
(snooker) The spot on a snooker table where the pink ball is normally placed.
adv
(snooker, of a shot) Hitting the cue ball in the center.
n
(snooker) A play in which the cue ball knocks one (usually red) ball onto another, in order to pot the second; a set.
v
(billiards) To strike the object ball near the edge.
v
(billiards) To strike the object ball nearer to its centre than its edge.
n
(sports, billiards, pool, snooker) An indention and cavity with a net sack or similar structure (into which the balls are to be struck) at each corner and one centered on each side of a pool or snooker table.
n
(slang) Synonym of pocket pool
n
A variation of the game of pool.
n
(sports) A cue sport played on a pool table. There are 15 balls, 7 of one colour, 7 of another, and the black ball (also called the 8 ball). A player must pocket all their own colour balls and then the black ball in order to win.
v
(snooker, pool, billiards) To cause a ball to fall into a pocket.
adj
(billiards, snooker) In billiards, pool, or snooker: able to be potted.
v
(snooker) To strike the cue ball in such a way that it stays in contact with the cue and object ball at the same time (a foul shot).
n
(billiards) In nine ball pool, an optional shot after a legal break shot where a player is allowed to hit any ball first, or not any, as well as not hit a rail, and the opponent can choose who shoots the next shot.
n
(UK, dated) The game of pool in which the balls are placed in the form of a triangle at spot.
n
A form of boules originating from the south of France.
v
(billiards, snooker, pool) To put the balls into the triangular rack and set them in place on the table.
n
(countable, snooker) One of the 15 red balls used in snooker, distinguished from the colours.
v
(sports, billiards, snooker, pool) To replace a ball on its correct spot on a snooker, billiards or pool table.
n
(snooker) In a frame that ends in both players having the same score, a tiebreaker where the black is put on its spot and the first player must play from the D until one player pots the black.
n
(snooker, pool, billiards) A run of good luck; a situation where a player is able to make his or her desired shots without difficulty.
v
(snooker, pool) To succeed in potting all of one's balls in a single turn.
n
A form of pocket billiards played on a modified snooker table with narrower pockets.
adj
(snooker, of an object ball) In a location that renders it difficult to hit with the cue ball.
n
(billiards) A type of called shot where a shooting player does not have to continue their turn after pocketing one or more of their balls.
n
An unusual variant of the game of snooker, devised in the nineteenth century and still played at the Savile Club in London, England.
n
(pinball) A hole on the playfield that catches a ball, but eventually returns it to play in one way or another.
n
(billiards) A wire strung with beads and hung horizontally above or near the table which is used to keep score.
v
(billiards) To commit a foul in pool, as where the cue ball is put into a pocket or jumps off the table.
v
(billiards, snooker, pool) To screw back.
v
(sports, billiards, snooker, pool) To cue the cue ball in such a way as to impart backspin. On impact, the ball will follow a reverse trajectory according to the spin.
n
(snooker, pool, billiards) The effect of putting backspin on the cue ball.
n
(obsolete) A game played on a billiard table, a variation of pool.
n
(snooker) An attempted pot that is intended not to leave a possible pot for the opponent if missed.
n
Alternative spelling of skee ball [An early arcade redemption game in which balls are rolled up an inclined lane, aimed at holes of various point values.]
n
(countable) The ball used in the game of skittles.
n
(cue sports) A two-piece cue with a nearly invisible wood-to-wood joint, so that it looks like a cheap one-piece house cue and may be deceptively used by hustlers.
v
(intransitive) To play the game of snooker.
n
The table on which snooker or billiards is played; a billiard table
n
(snooker, billiards) A stick with a convex arch-shaped notched head used to support the cue when the cue ball is out of reach at normal extension; a bridge.
n
Any of the balls marked with spots in the game of pool, which one player aims to pot, the other player taking the stripes.
n
(billiards) The pocketing of the red ball in a top corner pocket from off its own spot so as to leave the cue ball in position for an easy winning hazard in either top corner pocket.
adj
(billiards) In which the spot stroke is forbidden to be played more than twice consecutively.
n
A form of pool involving fifteen numbered balls, whose value is added to the score of the player who pots them.
n
(billiards) Part of the game of billiards, where the order of the play is determined by testing who can get a ball closest to the bottom rail by shooting it onto the end rail.
n
Any of the balls marked with stripes in the game of pool, which one player aims to pot, the other player taking the spots.
n
(billiards, snooker, pool) The effect on the cue ball where the ball is hit without topspin, backspin or sidespin.
n
A form of pool in which players must hit with the cue ball the object ball with the lowest numerical value, and must call the ball to be potted (which may or may not be the object ball initially struck). Any ball apart from the white may be legally potted; whichever player pots the ten ball wins the game (unless it is potted on the break, in which case it is spotted and play continues).
n
Alternative form of tenpin [(countable) Any of the bottle-shaped targets used in tenpin bowling.]
n
(billiards, snooker) Any device used to maintain the tip on a cue
n
(darts, snooker, etc.) One hundred points scored.
n
(snooker) The potting of all the object balls on the table.
n
(snooker) An instance where the cue ball is touching a potential object ball. If the player hits the ball in question, it is a foul shot.
n
(darts) Any of the narrow areas enclosed by the two central circles on a dartboard, worth three times the usual value of the segment.
n
(snooker) An unconventional shot of the balls to show off or pot an otherwise impossible ball.
n
A variant of the game of snooker, allowing the player more freedom regarding which balls can be attempted at which times.
n
(sports, billiards, snooker, pool) The cue ball in cue games.
n
(English billiards) When one's cue ball strikes some other ball and causes that other ball to sink into a pocket. If the sunken ball is the red ball then one scores three points, but if the sunken ball is the other player's cue ball then one scores two points.
n
(snooker) One of the colour balls used in snooker, with a value of 2 points.
n
(snooker) The corner pocket on a snooker table that is nearest the yellow spot.
n
(snooker) The spot on a snooker table where the yellow ball is normally placed.
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