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snooker

(snuːkəʳ, US snʊk-)
Word forms: 3rd person singular presenttense snookers, present participle snookering, past tense, past participle snookered
1. uncountable noun
Snooker is a game involving balls on a large table. The players use a long stick to hit a white ball, and score points by knocking coloured balls into the pockets at the sides of the table.
...a game of snooker.
They were playing snooker.
2. verb [usually passive]
If you are snookered by something, it is difficult or impossible for you to take action or do what you want to do.
[British, informal]
The President has been snookered on this issue. [be VERB-ed]

snooker in British English

(ˈsnuːkə)
noun
1. 
a game played on a billiard table with 15 red balls, six balls of other colours, and a white cue ball. The object is to pot the balls in a certain order
2. 
a shot in which the cue ball is left in a position such that another ball blocks the object ball. The opponent is then usually forced to play the cue ball off a cushion
verb (transitive)
3. 
to leave (an opponent) in an unfavourable position by playing a snooker
4. 
to place (someone) in a difficult situation
5. (often passive)
to thwart; defeat
Word origin
C19: of unknown origin

snooker in American English

(ˈsnʊkər)
noun
1. 
a variety of the game of pool played with fifteen red balls and six other balls
verb transitive
2. 
to make a direct shot impossible for (an opponent in snooker)
3.  Informal
to thwart or defeat
4.  Slang
to deceive

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Examples of 'snooker' in a sentence
snooker

My father taught me to play snooker.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
We had a relationship one day in the snooker room.
The Sun (2008)
Or snooker cues that work out the correct angle.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
The snooker legend has been tad unlucky this series.
The Sun (2009)
He invites friends over for a game of snooker.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
Young people want to play snooker and want to see it played on the biggest stage.
The Sun (2015)
It has left him hobbling around the snooker table.
The Sun (2006)
He does enough of that when he is playing snooker.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
Fish in the lake or play a game of snooker in the games room.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
Except that people gave him loads of money to play snooker.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
Come to my place for a game of snooker.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
He would have expected to receive short shrift if he had done anything like that in a snooker hall.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
But in the stillness of golf and snooker, foul play is clear and unambiguous.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
As a result, it is very hard to get away with cheating in golf or snooker.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
It's the same for anything that involves a snooker cue or a dart board.
The Sun (2008)
It has a pool and a vast music room, soon to become a snooker room and bar.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
I want my snooker to do the talking.
The Sun (2016)
I love a game of golf or snooker.
The Sun (2013)
I have the photograph to this day in the snooker room at home.
Frankie Dettori with Jonathan Powell FRANKIE: The Autobiography of Frankie Dettori (2004)
I got a snooker cue made for him with his name on to say congratulations on his retirement.
The Sun (2013)

Word lists with
snooker

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In other languages
snooker

British English: snooker /ˈsnuːkə/ NOUN
Snooker is a game involving balls on a large table. The players use long sticks called cues to hit a white ball, and score points by knocking coloured balls into the pockets at the sides of the table.
...a game of snooker.
  • American English: snooker
  • Arabic: لُعْبَةُ السُّنُوكَر
  • Brazilian Portuguese: sinuca
  • Chinese: 斯诺克台球
  • Croatian: biljar
  • Czech: kulečník
  • Danish: snooker
  • Dutch: snooker
  • European Spanish: billar modalidad
  • Finnish: snooker
  • French: snooker
  • German: Snooker
  • Greek: σνούκερ
  • Italian: snooker
  • Japanese: スヌーカー
  • Korean: 스누커
  • Norwegian: snooker
  • Polish: snooker
  • European Portuguese: snooker
  • Romanian: snooker
  • Russian: снукер
  • Latin American Spanish: billar
  • Swedish: snooker
  • Thai: สนุกเกอร์
  • Turkish: snooker
  • Ukrainian: снукер
  • Vietnamese: trò chơi bi-da

Chinese translation of 'snooker'

snooker

(ˈsnuːkəʳ)

n (u)

  1. (Sport) 英式台(臺)球 (yīngshì táiqiú)

vt

  1. to be snookered (Brit, inf) 处(處)于(於)困境 (chǔyú kùnjìng)

subject word lists

See Snooker and billiards terms

Nearby words of
snooker

  • snob
  • snobbery
  • snobbish
  • snooker
  • snoop
  • snooper
  • snooty

Synonyms of 'snooker'

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