miscueingn.
/ˌmɪsˈkjuːɪŋ/, U.S. /ˌmɪsˈkjuɪŋ/ Billiards, Snooker, and Pool.
Failure to strike the ball properly with the cue.
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1915 C. Roberts Billiards for Amateurs i. 9 How often does one see players missing their cues through using..cheap chalk? It seems strange that managers and markers are so indifferent to this..cause of mis-cueing.
1929 Times 1 Nov. 7/4 At the end of the last of these breaks he missed a difficult massé cannon, through partly miscueing.
1985 I. Morrison Hamlyn Encycl. Snooker 20/1 The purpose of chalk on the tip of a cue is to prevent miscueing.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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