corner pocket
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3.7
- noun
:
bolsillo de esquina
- During the game, she expertly sent the last ball into the corner pocket for the win.
- corner pocket ball
Examples
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Fine. 2 in the side. Shepherd sends the two-ball flying into the corner pocket.
Fiction book (1995) -
You're going to be aiming for that corner pocket.
Fiction book (1990) -
All right, eight ball, corner pocket.
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Eight ball in the corner pocket.
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1 ball in the corner pocket.
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I aimed and I got it into the corner pocket again.
Fiction book (1990) -
I'm gonna go ahead and put the four ball in the corner pocket.
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The pool table had grooves that would roll a ball through a thirty-degree arc into a corner pocket.
Fiction book (1994) -
As I lined up my shot, I focused on sinking the cue ball into the corner pocket.
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He celebrated when the seven ball finally dropped into the corner pocket.
Synonyms
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4.8
An opening on a game table where balls can fall in
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a pocket located at one of the four corners of a billiard or pool table' is directly and compositionally derived from 'corner' (a corner location) + 'pocket' (a hole/opening used in games). This simple noun–noun compound follows regular English compounding patterns and is cross-linguistically obvious, so a B1 learner who knows both words would readily infer the MWE's meaning.
Etymology
Corner pocket names the small hole or pocket at the corner of a pool or billiard table. Picture a ball rolling into that corner hole, and you can see why the phrase means the pocket at one of the table's corners where players try to 'sink' balls.