Definition of snooker
:a variation of pool played with 15 red balls and 6 variously colored balls
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This is a club that shares a training ground with snooker and croquet teams, a club that invites fans to its afternoon practices, a club that has been known to have its players stand in line for food at the concession stands among the fans.
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An auction of his pool tables, snooker table, pool table light, beer signs and sports memorabilia is scheduled for 10:30 a.m. Saturday.
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And Mick Jagger's snooker table is in the space as well.
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Abdali had just returned from refereeing an international snooker tournament in the United Arab Emirates when the militants took control.
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Abdali, 56, learned to play snooker in the 1970s — Korean construction workers who worked with his father had a table and taught him.
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The State Theater’s main space, for example, is now a snooker hall.
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Squash rackets, snooker cues, and the famous Dunlop Maxply tennis racket were all made of ash.
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Origin and Etymology of snooker
Definition of snooker
transitive verb
:to make a dupe of :hoodwink
Examples of snooker in a Sentence
I can't believe you managed to snooker me with that story about being an orphan.
Recent Examples of snooker from the Web
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The difference is that Horton was a pachyderm patsy, snookered into pro bono egg-tending by a ne’er-do-well bird, while Glennon will make a cool $16 million this year.
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Cops said Bender may have been on a bender, as he was snookered.
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Dole IPO: Less than four years after its billionaire chairman, David H. Murdock, took Dole Food Co. private — and snookered investors in the process, a judge said — the company is once again planning to tap the public markets.
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The U has grown fat over many years by feeding on a torrent of student loan money and by snookering the Legislature with threats of tuition increases.
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First Known Use of snooker
1925
snooker Synonyms
Synonyms
bamboozle, beguile, bluff, buffalo, burn, catch, con, cozen, delude, dupe, fake out, fool, gaff, gammon, gull, have, have on [chiefly British], hoax, hoodwink, hornswoggle, humbug, juggle, misguide, misinform, mislead, deceive, snow, spoof, string along, sucker, suck in, take in, trickAntonyms
undeceiveRelated Words
kid, put on, tease; bleed, cheat, chisel, defraud, diddle, euchre, flam, fleece, gyp, hustle, mulct, rook, shortchange, skin, squeeze, stick, sting, swindleNear Antonyms
debunk, expose, reveal, show up, uncloak, uncover, unmask; disclose, divulge, tell, unveil; disabuse, disenchant, disillusionSNOOKER Defined for English Language Learners
snooker
play
noun
Definition of snooker for English Language Learners
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: a version of the game of pool that is played chiefly in Britain with a cue ball, 15 red balls, and 6 balls of other colors on a table that has 6 pockets
snooker
verb
Definition of snooker for English Language Learners
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: to trick or deceive (someone)
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: to prevent (someone) from doing or achieving something
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