snooker
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7.4
- noun
- /ˈsnuːkər/
- UK
- He enjoys playing snooker with his friends every weekend.
- snooker players
- play snooker
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Watch on YouTubeSo even though he wasn't that great a snooker player, he could keep an eye on me.
- So even though he wasn't that great a snooker player, he could keep an eye on me.
- And as I looked up, he picked up a snooker ball and threw it at me.
- Why is it that snooker players don't continue just to get better?
- He admitted that that his snooker career came above his wife and children in his priority list.
- And then all of a sudden I was trying to play snooker in the middle of all that, you know, as well as the drinking and the drugs.
- And what's happened is he's outside a snooker club just round the corner called Rainbows on Oxford Road in Manchester.
- I had my own bar in there, snooker hall, gym.
- Like one of these is like a snooker club in Church Rd.
- What worries me the most, What am I going to do after snooker?
- So he owned a snooker club and my rapist, when he was a child actually came and stole my dad's car.
Examples
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The marker confirmed that I played snooker with Frank last Thursday.
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We can play snooker together.
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- On the snooker table, sir.
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Anyone who has ever played snooker or pool will be well aware of that fact!
Academic text (1991) -
Anybody care for a game of snooker?
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- How about a game of snooker?
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I spent a lot of my college life in snooker halls instead of studying.
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I knew a Scotsman who was an expert snooker player.
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- The snooker club.
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The rest of the day was spent with Magillicudy, pints, and snooker at the Station Inn.
Fiction book (1998)
Synonyms
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4.4
Games played on a table with a cloth top where players use a long stick to hit balls
Compounds
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A large rectangular table with green cloth and six pockets for playing snooker
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Etymology
Snooker was first used in the British army as slang for an 'inexperienced person', and a popular story says an officer used the word during a billiards match in India. That's why snooker became the name of the cue game played on a large table with pockets.