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n. (context US English) A building where visitors pay to play billiards (pool).
Usage examples of "pool hall".
I told him I had stopped off at the pool hall and playing off the match game had taken a while.
He was also known as a gambler and had been arrested once, several years back, when the back room of a pool hall had been raided on the information that an illegal game was being conducted there.
They said they wanted to assure me that I did not have to marry them in order to be a member of the family-they would be gone too much of the time anyhow-because they were going to be pirates when they were big enough-but stay groundside half the time-and open a hook shop over a pool hall-and would I come to see them there?
Me and Rick ducked out early so's we can open the pool hall for the wake.
Neither was it a Jolly Jack Tar of a place, like The Peg-legged Pirate's Pool Hall, over on the West Side.