poolroom
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4.1
- noun
- /ˈpuːlruːm/
- US
:
salón de billar
- I enjoy spending my Saturday nights in the local poolroom with friends.
Examples
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Comes right in this poolroom every night, 8:00 on the nose.
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I was listening, but also noting the shabby, once handsome houses, the lounging boys, the poolroom in the middle of the block, and the saloon on the corner.
Academic text (2002) -
You walk into a poolroom with that "go, go, go..." guys will be killing each other... trying to get to you.
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A guy I used to know around a poolroom.
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I'd like to see your poolroom.
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The poolroom nearer my home was owned and run by a man we knew as Weepy.
Fiction book (1999) -
I spent the afternoon venturing into almost every store—even poking my head into the poolroom, the only spot in town with no sign of Christmas at all.
Fiction book (1997) -
After dinner, we headed to the poolroom to play a few games of pool.
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The poolroom was filled with players, all focused on their shots.
Synonyms
3
3.7
A room with a table for playing pool
1
4.9
A room where people play games on a long table with balls and sticks, like pool
A place with tables where people play pool
A room where people play billiards on tables
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Morphology
Etymology
The word poolroom is made from pool and room: pool here is the name of the billiard game, a word that came from a 'pool' or 'pot' of money when people bet, and room means 'an indoor space'. So a poolroom is simply a room where people play pool.