Meaning

2 senses
  1. (countable, uncountable)A cue sport, popular in the UK and other Commonwealth of Nations countries.

    Snooker

    сну́керsnúker, билья́рдbilʹjárd

    сну́керsnúker

  2. (countable, uncountable)The situation where the cue ball is in such a position that the player cannot directly hit a legal ball with it.

    She put her opponent in a snooker.

More definitions
  • a form of pool played with 15 red balls and six balls of other colors and a cue ball

Examples

3 sentences
  1. Tom lost to Mary at snooker.

  2. Yanni used to be addicted to playing snooker.

  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. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

Translations

9 languages
Українська
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Русский
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Deutsch
By meaning 1
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Forms

plural: snookers
Singularsnooker
Pluralsnookers

regular

Word family

5 related words

See also

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