Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Pocket billiards played with 15 red balls and 6 balls of other colors.
- v. Slang To lead (another) into a situation in which all possible choices are undesirable; trap.
- 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).
- 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
- n. A game played with balls on a billiard table.
Wiktionary
- n. A cue sport, popular in the UK and other Commonwealth of Nations countries.
- v. To play snooker.
- v. To fool or bamboozle.
- v. snooker, pool To place the cue ball in such a position that the opponent cannot directly hit his/her required ball with it.
- v. To become or cause to become inebriated.
WordNet 3.0
- v. leave one's opponent unable to take a direct shot
- v. fool or dupe
- n. a form of pool played with 15 red balls and six balls of other colors and a cue ball
Etymologies
- Origin unknown. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“The real fascination in snooker is watching one of the top players pot and position themselves, time and again.”
“He’s close to being right too, except that the magic in snooker is all to do with the magic of the rolling ball.”
“But then he’s also tell you that snooker is all about tidying up.”
“In the 19th century, a snooker was a newly joined and easily fooled British cadet; the name was applied to this form of pool in 1875 by subalterns in India.”
Simon & Schuster: The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time
“Cancer-ravaged Alex Higgins - dubbed snooker's 'People's Champion' - was found dead and alone in bed at his humble flat yesterday.”
“It has been described as snooker's equivalent of Twenty20.”
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
“It has been described as snooker's version of Twenty/20 cricket.”
“The building is presently classified as a snooker hall but is being used as a mosque, which would continue if the new plans went ahead.”
“Prisoners locked up in the "snooker" are allowed to go to the toilet only once a day.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘snooker’.
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Ball Games and Sports
A list of games and sports played with a ball, including names of the courts, fields and pitches in which they are played.
I'll start the list with Basque pelota, which is played in Id...Basque pelota, bocce, pitch, crease, cricket, bowls, field, gridiron, court, basketball, netball, soccer and 106 more...
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Fubbery and Blaflum
An arcade of artifice and deception.
fubbery, blaflum, Drunken Fist, escamoterie, archdeceiver, legerdemain, prestidigitation, prestidigital, glaik, imposture, fraud, disguise and 78 more...
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Words of indeterminate origin
Words of which the origin is unknown.
(i.e. we don't know who coined them and they probably aren't derived from another language like Latin)fuddle, conundrum, grouse, scad, pod, culvert, dude, dahoon, bloke, hootenanny, gib, malarky and 5 more...
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The Sog Collection
My big word list.
chaos, flaccid, empirical, flotsam, cacophony, grumble, assuage, awe, romance, mortality, coalesce, fortuitous and 3282 more...
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Loaded Dice
Off the straight and narrow; less than straight arrow.
chicanery, sophistry, pilfer, rook, diddle, fleece, grift, poach, rustle, pinch, abscond, steal and 140 more...
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stpeter's Words
abase, abasement, abashed, abdicate, aberrant, abeyance, abhor, abhorrent, abide, abject, ablation, abnegation and 3536 more...
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Tuesday words
just the next words that come along
nasality, transignification, lapsarian, disciple, slanguage, atwitter, avast, ahoy, asleep, awake, hymnody, glissade and 573 more...
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arby's words
me default
shirty, kerfuffle, tenterhooks, susurrus, palimpsest, crimson, rufous, cicatrix, crepuscular, carapace, quaff, exanimate and 239 more...
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EN - funny (single) words
"Fornication" is not equal to "formication".
Words with funny meaning, spelling or both.barratry, bastinado, bezonian, bibcock, bibliobibuli, biffy, bodewash, boeotian, boondoggle, borborygmic, bosky, brobdingnagian and 729 more...
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Misdirector's Cut
Hey...
—> —> —> —> —> —> —> —> —> —> —> —> —> —> —> LOOK OVER THERE! —> —> —>
...sneaky, legerdemain, flimflam, unwittingly, clandestine, hornswoggle, sleveen, subversion, espionage, incognito, subreption, gank and 147 more...
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Fun words
shit accelerant, highfalutin, queue, gymnosophy, adhocracy, lucubration, amphigory, vernalagnia, frabjous, saxify, sesquipedalian, basorexia and 44 more...
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Red
Words that refer to color red, or various shades of red
alizarin, mulberry, murrey, sanguine, scarlet, crimson, vermilion, maroon, red, burgundy, amaranth, carmine and 35 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for snooker.
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