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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