WordNet
n. sports implement consisting of a tapering rod used to strike a cue ball in pool or billiards [syn: cue, pool cue, pool stick]
Wikipedia
A cue stick (or simply cue, more specifically pool cue, snooker cue, or billiards cue), is an item of sporting equipment essential to the games of pool, snooker and carom billiards. It is used to strike a ball, usually the . Cues are tapered sticks, typically about 57–59 inches (about 1.5 m) long and usually between 16 and 21 ounces (450–600 g), with professionals gravitating toward a 19 ounce (540 g) average. Cues for carom tend toward the shorter range, though cue length is primarily a factor a player height and arm length. Most cues are made of wood, but occasionally the wood is covered or bonded with other materials including graphite, carbon fiber or fiberglass. An obsolete term for a cue, used from the 16th to early 19th centuries, is billiard stick.
Usage examples of "cue stick".
The side of his hand hit lightly into the rubber ring that cushioned the end of the cue stick.
Chiun looked up and smiled at Rad Rex, who looked down at his hands, then separated them, and each hand held half of the cue stick, sawed through along its length.
Jones accused as Reed put down the cue stick and stuffed the assorted currency into his boot cuffs.
Behind him, Billy cleaned up the table and put his cue stick back in the rack on the wall.
Meanwhile, the Mexican kid stood there and grinned at me, leaning on his cue stick.
Megan had never spoken to him about that period of his life at any length, never gotten the gist of why he looked back on a past that included being the junior member of a father-son hustling team, a borderline juvenile delinquent, and, by her standards, a victim of child exploitation-what else would you call being kept truant from school to hold a cue stick in a dive full of chronic gamblers?
He finished racking the balls, then put his cue stick on the table.
He poked Minty in the chest with the cue stick and Nathan Fresh wheeled on him and bellowed in finest chief petty officer form.