snooker

Meanings

Plural: snookers

Noun

• a form of pool played with 15 red balls and six balls of other colors and a cue ball
• A cue sport, popular in the UK and other Commonwealth of Nations countries.
• The situation where the cue ball is in such a position that the player cannot directly hit a legal ball with it.

Verb

• fool or dupe
  • "He was snookered by the con-man's smooth talk"
• leave one's opponent unable to take a direct shot
• To play the game of snooker.
• To fool or bamboozle.
• To place the cue ball in such a position that (the opponent) cannot directly hit the required ball with it.
• To put (someone) in a difficult situation.
• To become or cause to become inebriated.

Related Words

billiards, pool