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billiardsbil‧liards /ˈbɪljədz $ -ərdz/ noun [uncountable] billiardsOrigin: 1500-1600 French billard ‘(stick used in) billiards’, from bille ‘piece of wood, stick’ - A naturally gifted sportswoman, she became a proficient sculler, horsewoman, and mountaineer, and even mastered billiards.
- As in billiards, a direct collision results in backward scattering and an off-centre collision results in forward scattering.
- He died at the age of eighty-one while playing billiards in the United Services Club.
- It hangs, he assures me, in the billiards room of White's.
- Me and Frank had been playing billiards at the Liberal club, a big chapel-like building on Kenworthy Road.
- Reginald and Henry were having a game of billiards.
- Trueman's show was an homage to pub sports-bar billiards, darts, skittles and shove ha'penny.
- We had a game of billiards and then went to a restaurant.
► Other Gamesbar billiards, nounbeanbag, nounbilliards, nounblind man's buff, nounchicken, nouncrazy golf, nouncrossword, nouncue, nouncue ball, nouncushion, noundoll's house, noundomino, noundouble-Dutch, noundressing-up, nounducks and drakes, nounflag football, nounframe, nounhide-and-seek, nounkeep-away, nounkickball, nounkite-flying, nounleapfrog, nounmarble, nounmaze, nounmusical chairs, nounninepins, nounnoughts and crosses, nounpaper chase, nounparlour game, nounpeekaboo, interjectionplay, verbpocket, verbpool, nounpool hall, nounpot, verbpuzzle, nounsack race, nounskip, verbskipping rope, nounskittle, nounsnowball, nounsnowman, nounYo-Yo, nounzap, verb ► Billiards is· Billiards is played with two cue balls. VERB► play· Me and Frank had been playing billiards at the Liberal club, a big chapel-like building on Kenworthy Road.· He died at the age of eighty-one while playing billiards in the United Services Club.· Frank and me had stopped playing billiards the minute they'd come through the door.· At the university I also learned the valuable lesson, not to waste my time playing billiards.· Had she given it away by not knowing that Edward played billiards? a game played on a cloth-covered table in which balls are hit with a cue (=a long stick) against each other and into pockets at the edge of the table → pool, snookerGRAMMAR: Singular or plural verb?Billiards is followed by a singular verb: · Billiards is played with two cue balls.—billiard adjective [only before noun]: a billiard table |