Snooker

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The American HeritageĀ® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Pocket billiards played with 15 red balls and 6 balls of other colors.
  • v. Slang To lead (another) into a situation in which all possible choices are undesirable; trap.
  • v. Slang To fool; dupe: "Snookered by a lot of malarkey about drilling costs, a Texas jury ... added $3 billion of punitive damagesā€ ( New Republic).
  • v. To leave one's opponent in the game of snooker unable to take a direct shot without striking a ball out of the required order.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A cue sport, popular in the UK and other Commonwealth of Nations countries.
  • v. To play snooker.
  • v. To fool or bamboozle.
  • v. To place the cue ball in such a position that the opponent cannot directly hit his/her required ball with it.
  • v. To become or cause to become inebriated.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A game played with balls on a billiard table.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. leave one's opponent unable to take a direct shot
  • v. fool or dupe
  • n. a form of pool played with 15 red balls and six balls of other colors and a cue ball
  • Verb Form
    snookered    snookers   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    play    play a trick on    fob    play a joke on    fox    pull a fast one on    flimflam    trick    play tricks    pool   
    Cross Reference
    billiards    pool   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Hooker    booker    cooker    hooker    looker    rooker   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts