Crossword clues for snooker
snooker
- Put in an awkward position - it's what Trump's good at
- Thwart revolutionary American artist and sovereign
- Table game
- Put one over on
- Pool variety
- Billiards variation with 15 red balls
- Variation of pool
- Game played with 15 red balls, six of other colours and a white one
- Game played with 15 red balls
- Game in which a pink ball is worth six points
- English billiards game
- with cues and 22 balls
- Pub game
- Game on a table
- English pool game
- Get the better of
- British form of 33-Down
- ... with cues and 22 balls
- A form of pool played with 15 red balls and six balls of other colors and a cue ball
- Pool game
- Game with coloured balls
- Game played with cues
- Game of 1 4 7a & 14; 7d, of a sort
- Senor OK playing a game
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1889, the game and the word said in an oft-told story to have been invented in India by British officers as a diversion from billiards. The name is perhaps a reference (with regard to the rawness of play by a fellow officer) to British slang snooker "newly joined cadet, first-term student at the R.M. Academy" (1872). Tradition ascribes the coinage to Col. Sir Neville Chamberlain (not the later prime minister of the same name), at the time subaltern in the Devonshire Regiment in Jubbulpore. One of the first descriptions of the game is in A.W. Drayson's "The Art of Practical Billiards for Amateurs" (1889), which states in a footnote "The rules of the game of snooker are the copyright of Messrs. Burroughes & Watts, from whom they may be obtained," they being manufacturers of billiard tables.
"to cheat," early 1900s, from snooker (n.). Related: Snookered; snookering.\n\nOne of the great amusements of this game is, by accuracy in strength, to place the white ball so close behind a pool ball that the next player cannot hit a pyramid ball, he being "snookered" from all of them. If he fail to strike a pyramid ball, this failure counts one to the adversary. If, however, in attempting to strike a pyramid ball off a cushion, he strike a pool ball, his adversary is credited with as many points as the pool ball that is struck would count if pocketed by rule.
[Maj.-Gen. A.W. Drayson, "The Art of Practical Billiards for Amateurs," 1889]
Wiktionary
n. A cue sport, popular in the UK and other Commonwealth of Nations countries. vb. 1 To play snooker. 2 To fool or bamboozle. 3 (context snooker pool English) To place the cue ball in such a position that the opponent cannot directly hit the required ball with it; (''by extension'') To put someone in a difficult situation. 4 To become or cause to become inebriated.
WordNet
n. a form of pool played with 15 red balls and six balls of other colors and a cue ball
v. fool or dupe; "He was snookered by the con-man's smooth talk"
leave one's opponent unable to take a direct shot
Wikipedia
Snooker is a 1983 sports simulation video game published by Visions Software Factory.
Snooker is a cue sport, that is played on a green baize-covered table with pockets in each of the four corners and in the middle of each of the long side cushions.
Snooker may also refer to:
Snooker (, ) is a cue sport played on a table covered with a green cloth or baize, with pockets at each of the four corners and in the middle of each of the long side cushions. A full-size table measures 11 ft 8 in × 5 ft 10 in (3569 mm x 1778 mm), commonly referred to as 12 × 6 ft.
The game is played using a cue and 22 snooker balls: one white cue ball, 15 red balls worth one point each, and six balls of different colours: yellow (two points), green (three), brown (four), blue (five), pink (six) and black (seven). The red balls are initially placed in a triangular formation, and the other coloured balls on marked positions on the table known as "spots". Players execute shots by striking the cue ball with the cue, causing the cue ball to hit a red or coloured ball. Points are scored by sinking the red and coloured balls (knocking them into the pockets, called "potting") in the correct sequence. A player receives additional points if the opponent commits a foul. A player (or team) wins a frame (individual game) of snooker by scoring more points than the opponent(s). A player wins a match when a predetermined number of frames have been won.
Snooker, generally regarded as having been invented in India by British Army officers, is popular in many of the English-speaking and Commonwealth countries, with top professional players attaining multimillion-pound career earnings from the game. The sport has become increasingly popular in China. Touring professional players compete regularly around the world, the premier tournament being the World Snooker Championship, held annually in Sheffield, England.
Usage examples of "snooker".
Kendrick then handed State Senator Guyot his mobile phone to call the senior partner of a high-powered accounting firm in Richmond, rousing him from a tense game of snooker.
State Senator Guyot his mobile phone to call the senior partner of a high-powered accounting firm in Richmond, rousing him from a tense game of snooker.
Mrs Boxall or help Granpa in the garden or play a little snooker down at the Impala Hotel with John Hopkins and Geoffrey Scruby and some of the other guys all of whom, like me, were going to boarding school.
Robbins had been trying to teach him after he sold Moses to Henry that every man felt he had been snookered after buying or selling a slave.
Micky knocked it in, coming back perfectly lined up for another one and finished his turn by leaving the cue ball snookered by another yellow.
The NASDAQ has lost nearly 40 percent of its value, and average Americans, snookered into the madness of playing the market with their meager savings, have lost billions.
It had a snooker room, a badminton court and swimming-pool, a tuck shop and a chapel, a cricket pitch and social club, a podiatrist and hairdresser, kitchens, sewing room and laundry.
Maybe it was this simple: any newly elected official was seduced into the game the same way Cleopatra had snookered Gaius Julius Caesar.
This was harder than it looked because more than half of the snooker table served as the Archchancellors filing system,* and indeed to get to the hole the ball had to pass through several piles of paperwork, a tankard, a skull with a dribbly candle on it and a lot of pipe ash.
Andy, me, Howie, another two local lads and a couple of the traveller boys -down in the snooker room where there's a beat-up looking table and a leak in the ceiling that turns the whole of the stained, green-baize surface into a millimetre-shallow marsh, water dripping from each pocket and dribbling down the bulky legs to the sopping carpet, and we play snooker by the light of the hissing gas lamps, having to hit the white ball really hard even for delicate shots because of the extra rolling resistance the water causes, and the balls make a zizzing, ripping noise as they race across the table and sometimes you can see spray curving up behind them and I'm feeling really drunk and a bit stoned from a couple of strong Js smoked out in the garden earlier with the travellers but I think this dimly lit water-hazard snooker is just hilarious and I'm laughing maniacally at it all and I put an arm round Andy's neck at one point and say, You know I love you, old buddy, and isn't friendship and .
I wish I'd known about the snooker table, I'd have taken my own cue stick along.
By the time the second bottle was opened, Gray had to squint to see the balls on the snooker table, and then they still tended to weave.
Have another one and I'll show you the new cloth on the snooker table.
As flat as a snooker table and richly fertile, this area just south of the Lincolnshire Wolds, along with the adjoining reaches of Cambridgeshire, contains to this day some of Britain’.
A night porter, his coat green as a snooker table, was reading a newspaper behind a polished desk.