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snooker
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun snooker has 1 sense
- snooker(n = noun.act) Array - a form of pool played with 15 red balls and six balls of other colors and a cue ball; Array is a kind of pocket billiards, pool
Derived form verb snooker2
Verb snooker has 2 senses
- snooker(v = verb.social) Array - fool or dupe; "He was snookered by the con-man's smooth talk" is one way to flim-flam, fob, fox, play a joke on, play a trick on, play tricks, pull a fast one on, trick
- snooker(v = verb.competition) Array - leave one's opponent unable to take a direct shot; Array is one way to play
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s somebody
Derived form noun snooker1
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s
OXFORD DICTIONARY
snooker, n. & v.
--n.
1 a game played with cues on a rectangular baize-covered table in which the players use a cue-ball (white) to pocket the other balls (15 red and 6 coloured) in a set order.
2 a position in this game in which a direct shot at a permitted ball is impossible.
--v.tr.
1 (also refl.) subject (oneself or another player) to a snooker.
2 (esp. as snookered adj.) sl. defeat; thwart.
--n.
1 a game played with cues on a rectangular baize-covered table in which the players use a cue-ball (white) to pocket the other balls (15 red and 6 coloured) in a set order.
2 a position in this game in which a direct shot at a permitted ball is impossible.
--v.tr.
1 (also refl.) subject (oneself or another player) to a snooker.
2 (esp. as snookered adj.) sl. defeat; thwart.
Etymology
19th c.: orig. unkn.
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