snooker
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snook·er
(sno͝ok′ər)n.
Pocket billiards played with 15 red balls and 6 balls of other colors.
tr.v. snook·ered, snook·er·ing, snook·ers
1. Slang
a. To lead (another) into a situation in which all possible choices are undesirable; trap.
b. To fool; dupe: "Snookered by a lot of malarkey about drilling costs, a Texas jury ... added $3 billion of punitive damages" (New Republic).
2. 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.
[Origin unknown.]
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snooker
(ˈsnuːkə)n
1. (Billiards & Snooker) a game played on a billiard table with 15 red balls, six balls of other colours, and a white cue ball. The object is to pot the balls in a certain order
2. (Billiards & Snooker) a shot in which the cue ball is left in a position such that another ball blocks the object ball. The opponent is then usually forced to play the cue ball off a cushion
vb (tr)
3. (Billiards & Snooker) to leave (an opponent) in an unfavourable position by playing a snooker
4. to place (someone) in a difficult situation
5. (often passive) to thwart; defeat
[C19: of unknown origin]
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snook•er
(ˈsnʊk ər, ˈsnu kər)n.
1. a variety of pool played with 15 red balls and 6 balls of other colors, in which a player must shoot one of the red balls into a pocket before shooting at one of the other balls.
v.t. 2. Slang. to deceive.
[1885–90; orig. uncertain]
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snooker
Past participle: snookered
Gerund: snookering
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snooker
A layout of balls in which the path from the cue ball to the object ball is blocked by one or more other balls.
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| Noun | 1. |  snooker - a form of pool played with 15 red balls and six balls of other colors and a cue ballpocket billiards, pool - any of various games played on a pool table having 6 pockets snooker - leave one's opponent unable to take a direct shot |
| Verb | 1. | snooker - fool or dupe; "He was snookered by the con-man's smooth talk" flim-flam, fob, fox, play a trick on, play tricks, pull a fast one on, trick, play a joke on - deceive somebody; "We tricked the teacher into thinking that class would be cancelled next week" |
| 2. | snooker - leave one's opponent unable to take a direct shot snooker - a form of pool played with 15 red balls and six balls of other colors and a cue ball play - participate in games or sport; "We played hockey all afternoon"; "play cards"; "Pele played for the Brazilian teams in many important matches" |
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snooker
Snooker and billiards terms
baize, ball, baulk, baulkline, black, blue, bouclée, break, bricole, bridge, brown, cannon, carom (chiefly U.S. & Canad), chalk, clearance, cue ball, cue extension, cue tip, cushion, D or d, double, draw, drop cannon, fluke, foul, frame, free ball, green, half-butt, hazard, headrail, in-off, jenny, kick, kiss, lag, long jenny, massé, maximum break or 147, miscue, nurse, nursery cannon, object ball, pink, plain ball, plant, pocket, pot, red, rest, safety, scratch, screw, short jenny, side or (U.S. & Canad.) English, snooker, spider, spot, spot ball, stun, top, triangle or (U.S. & Canad.) rack, white, Whitechapel, yellowCollins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002
Translations
druh kulečníkové hrykulečník
snooker
snooker
biljar
sznúker
snóker
スヌーカー
스누커
angliškasis biliardas
biljarda spēles veids, snukers
snooker
สนุกเกอร์
bir tür bilardo oyunusnookersnuker
trò chơi bi-da
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snooker
n → Snooker nt
vt to snooker somebody → jdn sperren; to be snookered (Brit fig inf) → festsitzen (inf); I’ve snookered myself (fig inf) → ich habe mich festgefahren
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snooker
(ˈsnuːkə) noun a kind of game played on a billiard-table with fifteen red balls and seven balls of other colours. Do you play snooker?; Let's have a game of snooker; (also adjective) a snooker match.
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snooker
→ لُعْبَةُ السُّنُوكَر kulečník snooker Snooker σνούκερ billar snooker snooker biljar snooker スヌーカー 스누커 snooker snooker snooker sinuca, snooker снукер snooker สนุกเกอร์ snooker trò chơi bi-da 斯诺克台球Multilingual Translator © HarperCollins Publishers 2009