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Snooker vs. Billiard — What's the Difference?

Snooker vs. Billiard — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Snooker and Billiard

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Snooker

Snooker (pronounced UK: , US: ) is a cue sport that was first played by British Army officers stationed in India in the second half of the 19th century. It is played on a rectangular table covered with a green cloth (or "baize"), with six pockets: one at each corner and one in the middle of each long side.

Billiard

Of, relating to, or used in billiards.

Snooker

Pocket billiards played with 15 red balls and 6 balls of other colors.

Billiard

See carom.

Snooker

To lead (another) into a situation in which all possible choices are undesirable; trap.
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Billiard

A shot in billiards or snooker in which the cue ball strikes two other balls; a carom.

Snooker

To fool; dupe
"Snookered by a lot of malarkey about drilling costs, a Texas jury ... added $3 billion of punitive damages" (New Republic).

Billiard

(attributive) Pertaining to the game of billiards.
A billiard table; a billiard ball

Snooker

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.

Billiard

A dynamical system in which a particle alternates between motion in a straight line and specular reflections from a boundary.

Snooker

A cue sport, popular in the UK and other Commonwealth of Nations countries.

Billiard

1015, a thousand billion (long scale) or a million milliard.

Snooker

The situation where the cue ball is in such a position that the player cannot directly hit a legal ball with it.

Billiard

Of or pertaining to the game of billiards.

Snooker

(intransitive) To play the game of snooker. en

Billiard

Of or relating to billiards;
A billiard ball
A billiard cue
A billiard table

Snooker

(transitive) To fool or bamboozle.

Snooker

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

Snooker

To put (someone) in a difficult situation.

Snooker

To become or cause to become inebriated. en

Snooker

A form of pool played with 15 red balls and six balls of other colors and a cue ball

Snooker

Fool or dupe;
He was snookered by the con-man's smooth talk

Snooker

Leave one's opponent unable to take a direct shot

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