any of several games played on an oblong table by hitting small balls against one another or into pockets with a cue
one a game of this kind played with three balls, in which scores are made by causing one ball, the cue ball, to hit the other two balls, the object balls, in succession: compare pool2, snooker1
(billiard) used before a noun: relating to or used in billiards
billiard cues
[early French billard billiard cue, billiards, from bille log, of Celtic origin]