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alt. 1 A pocket billiards (pool) game played with sixteen balls (a cue ball and fifteen object balls) on a pool table with six pockets. 2 The billards ball, almost always black, bearing the number eight. 3 (context slang English) A portion of cocaine or methamphetamine weighing 1/8 of an ounce, or 3.5 grams. n. 1 A pocket billiards (pool) game played with sixteen balls (a cue ball and fifteen object balls) on a pool table with six pockets. 2 The billards ball, almost always black, bearing the number eight. 3 (context slang English) A portion of cocaine or methamphetamine weighing 1/8 of an ounce, or 3.5 grams. vb. (context pool English) To pot all one's colour balls and then the black ball (or eight-ball) without the opponent potting a single one.
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Eight-ball (often spelled 8-ball or eightball, and sometimes called solids and stripes, spots and stripes in the UK or, more rarely, bigs and littles/smalls, highs and lows, halves and wholes.) is a pool (pocket billiards) game popular in much of the world, and the subject of international professional and amateur competition. Played on a pool table with six pockets, the game is so universally known in some countries that beginners are often unaware of other pool games and believe the word "pool" itself refers to eight-ball. The game has numerous variations, mostly regional. Standard eight-ball is the second most competitive professional pool game, after nine-ball, and for the last several decades ahead of straight pool.
Eight-ball is played with cue sticks and 16 balls: a , and 15 consisting of seven striped balls, seven solid-colored balls and the black 8 ball. After the balls are scattered with a , the players are assigned either the group of solid balls or the stripes once a ball from a particular group is legally pocketed. The ultimate object of the game is to legally pocket the eight ball in a called pocket, which can only be done after all of the balls from a player's assigned group have been cleared from the table.
__NOTOC__ Eight-ball (or 8-ball) is a pool (pocket billiards) game. Eightball, 8 Ball, eight ball, 8ball, and various other spellings, may also refer to:
- 8 ball, the black ball in pool, numbered "8"
Usage examples of "eight-ball".
To her surprise, however, Cerise was right: the Eight-Ball Cafe, built on a median set between the two lanes of the flyway, proved to be both clean and relatively friendly.
A co-ordinator did not actually begin to function constructively until everyone, including himself, was firmly behind the eight-ball.
She compared the attitude shown on the CRT display with that given by the eight-ball, the attitude direction indicator.
Before I had left on this trip I had lain awake at night in my bed in England and pictured myself stopping each evening at a motel in a little city, strolling into town along wide sidewalks, dining on the blueplate special at Betty's Family Restaurant on the town square, then plugging a scented toothpick in my mouth and going for a stroll around the town, very probably stopping off at Vern's Midnite Tavern for a couple of draws and a game of eight-ball with the boys or taking in a movie at the Regal or looking in at the Val-Hi Bowling Alley to kibitz the Mid-Week Hairdressers' League matches before rounding off the night with a couple of games of pinball and a grilled cheese sandwich.