Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An American game of pool played under various and conflicting rules.
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Examples
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She probably would not have ventured on it had she not spied Nat Hicks in the pool-parlor, being witty over bottle-pool.
Main Street 2004
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She probably would not have ventured on it had she not spied Nat Hicks in the pool-parlor, being witty over bottle-pool.
Main Street 1920
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Hicks in the pool-parlor, being witty over bottle-pool.
Main Street Sinclair Lewis 1918
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Late every afternoon he put aside his pen and proof-sheets, and with a coat held capewise about his bent shoulders, toddled to the Mohican Club to play bottle-pool with his old friend, G. Pomeroy Keese.
The Story of Cooperstown Ralph Birdsall 1894
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