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billiard hall

n. a room in which billiards is played [syn: billiard room, billiard saloon, billiard parlor, billiard parlour]

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Billiard hall

A billiard/billiards, pool or snooker hall (or parlour/parlor, room or club; sometimes compounded as poolhall, poolroom, etc.) is a place where people get together for playing cue sports such as pool, snooker or carom billiards. Such establishments often serve alcohol and may have gaming machines, darts, foosball and other games on the side.

Usage examples of "billiard hall".

There was a reverend creature and a couple of the usual court clowns in morning dress looking austere in the background - and there, at Albert's right hand, stood my little greenhorn of the billiard hall.

A gathering of old grads and slackers stepped out of the Laurier Billiard Hall, attracted by the martial music.

He walked past a billiard hall (windows boarded up) - past a chili parlor with a ventilator exhausting hot breath across the sidewalk (rancid grease, fried onions, sour mop) - until he reached the fruit and tobacco shack of Papa Popopopoulos.

On one distant half term Nick had sat in on the 'Peckham Billiard Hall Stabbing', and enjoyed it a great deal more than Treasure Island.

They had soon moved into the ‘protection’ racket, and ‘cut themselves in’ on a billiard hall in the Mile End Road and a club called the Green Dragon in the East End.