snooker

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noun

snook·​er ˈsnu̇-kər 

 chiefly British  ˈsnü-

: a variation of pool played with 15 red balls and 6 variously colored balls

snooker

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verb

snookered; snookering; snookers

transitive verb

: to make a dupe of : hoodwink

Synonyms

Verb

• bamboozle
• beguile
• bluff
• buffalo
• burn
• catch
• con
• cozen
• deceive
• delude
• dupe
• fake out
• fool
• gaff
• gammon
• gull
• have
• have on [chiefly British]
• hoax
• hoodwink
• hornswoggle
• humbug
• juggle
• misguide
• misinform
• mislead
• snow
• spoof
• string along
• suck in
• sucker
• take in
• trick

Examples of snooker in a Sentence

Verb

I can't believe you managed to snooker me with that story about being an orphan.

Recent Examples on the Web

Noun

The 2023 version of the event is sports heavy, with boxing, snooker, soccer, MMA, tennis and wrestling. —Dylan Manfre, Sportico.com, 3 Sep. 2019

In the next room, three men from Nigeria played snooker, a type of pool, with a man from Pakistan and another from Ukraine. —Megan Specia, New York Times, 19 Mar. 2024

Verb

Nike ‘had snookered me’ The culprits, Rentmeester and Dey claim, were the Nike art directors who reneged on a promise to credit him for his work. —Bypaolo Confino, Fortune, 17 June 2024

But Kuperman goes much further, arguing that the situation that led to NATO’s intervention wasn’t so bad—that Qaddafi’s threat to civilians was overblown and that the United States and Europe were snookered into thinking there was a humanitarian emergency. —Derek Chollet, Foreign Affairs, 20 Apr. 2015

Word History

Etymology

Noun

origin unknown

First Known Use

Noun

1889, in the meaning defined above

Verb

1925, in the meaning defined above

Phrases Containing snooker

• snooker someone/oneself