billiards
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- noun
- /ˈbɪljərdz/
:
billar
- I enjoyed playing a few games of billiards with my friends at the local club.
- play billiards
I even played three cushion billiards at at Julian's in New York.
- I even played three cushion billiards at at Julian's in New York.
- Burns Standard book of Pool and Billiards is the textbook.
- And he also makes a little bit of money playing billiards or pool and playing cards.
- And I went to a billiards hall and a billiards hall, a billiard store.
- And then he and I proceeded to win at billiards.
- But then you, you know, go out with your friends and he would say play billiards, shoot pool, right?
- Basically, you know, they're playing billiards, playing billiards at the bar, you're doing Newtonian classical mechanics, right, Right.
- Why this is so dynamic in this area is an Antarctic equivalent of billiards.
Examples
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An array of activities, from dances to concerts and from cards to billiards, kept guests entertained.
Blog text (8) -
Those gentlemen take the game of billiards very seriously.
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I played pool and billiards pretty seriously.
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We did a whole show on billiards today.
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We could play a few games of billiards.
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Then he kept going and stopped at another store to get some change to play billiards.
Academic text (2006) -
I'd rather play a game of billiards.
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Just ask for Alice and say you want a game of billiards.
Fiction book (1993) -
The women playing billiards applauded when one of them made a good shot.
Fiction book (1997) -
There's nothing more frustrating to me than attempting to shoot a crucial billiards shot in a crowded bar.
Blog text (17)
Compounds
A table game like pool where short cues hit balls into holes while knocking wooden pegs loses points
Games like pool that are played on a table with six pockets where players hit balls with a long stick
How Complex
Surface Forms
Morphology
billiards = billiard (opaque) = billiard + s
The form is simply 'billiard' + plural -s, but 'billiard' is a borrowed lexical item not analyzable into familiar English morphemes, so the composition does not help learners infer meaning.
Etymology
Billiards comes from the old French word bille, which means 'ball'. That's why billiards simply names games played with balls on a table, and why players use cue sticks to hit those balls.