Meaning

5 senses
  1. (intransitive)To play the game of snooker.

  2. (transitive)To fool or bamboozle.

    fool or dupe

  3. (ambitransitive)To place the cue ball in such a position that (the opponent) cannot directly hit the required ball with it.

  4. (broadly, transitive)To put (someone) in a difficult situation.

  5. (transitive)To cause to become inebriated.

Examples

3 sentences
  1. Tom lost to Mary at snooker.

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  2. Yanni used to be addicted to playing snooker.

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  3. Some blue chalk fell from the tip of the snooker cue on to the green baize.

    deVon der Spitze des Snookercues fiel blaue Kreide auf den grünen Tischüberzug.

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Forms

snookers, snookering, snookered, snookered
Base formsnooker · to snooker
3rd person singularsnookers
Present participlesnookering
Past simplesnookered
Past participlesnookered

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theysnooker
he, she, itsnookers

Past simpleLesson

all personssnookered

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave snookered
he, she, ithas snookered

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill snooker

Word family

2 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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