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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. Pocket billiards played with 15 red balls and 6 balls of other colors.
  2. v. Slang To lead (another) into a situation in which all possible choices are undesirable; trap.
  3. v. Slang To fool; dupe: "Snookered by a lot of malarkey about drilling costs, a Texas jury ... added $3 billion of punitive damages” ( New Republic).
  4. v. To leave one's opponent in the game of snooker unable to take a direct shot without striking a ball out of the required order.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A game played with balls on a billiard table.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A cue sport, popular in the UK and other Commonwealth of Nations countries.
  2. v. To play snooker.
  3. v. To fool or bamboozle.
  4. v. snooker, pool To place the cue ball in such a position that the opponent cannot directly hit his/her required ball with it.
  5. v. To become or cause to become inebriated.

WordNet 3.0

  1. v. leave one's opponent unable to take a direct shot
  2. v. fool or dupe
  3. n. a form of pool played with 15 red balls and six balls of other colors and a cue ball

Etymologies

  1. Origin unknown. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  • shevek I love watching this game! Especially when the commentator speaks a language I don't understand... Jul 22, 2008

  • slumry I think if you have been snookered, you have been bamboozled. Jun 27, 2007

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