snooker
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snooker
- /ˈsnuːkə(ɹ)/ UK
- /ˈsnʊkɚ/ US
Rhymes with -uːkə(ɹ), -ʊkə(ɹ)
noun snookers
- 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. She put her opponent in a snooker.
verb snookers · snookering · snookered
- To play the game of snooker.
- To fool or bamboozle. But to critics like the New York Times's Paul Krugman, Ryan was an obvious con man weaponizing the deficit to hamstring Obama's presidency, weaken the recovery, and snooker Beltway centrists eager to champion a reasonable-seeming Republican.
- 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. Sam McDougall, Operations Director for NR's East Coast Route, explains: "Until recently, if anything went wrong in the two-track section between Stoke and Doncaster, we were snookered.
- To cause to become inebriated.
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: billiard, billiards, snooker ball, cue sport, snooker table, white, cuesport, bank shot, color, cueball, escape, volunteer snooker, bridge, pack, pool, tour
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noun cue sport
| Español | billar |
|---|---|
| 한국어 | 스누커 seunukeo |
| 日本語 | スヌーカー sunūkā |
| 中文 | 斯諾克 /斯诺克 sīnuòkè, 司諾克 /司诺克 sīnuòkè |
| हिन्दी | स्नूकर snūkar |
| Português | sinuca |
| Français | billard |
| Deutsch | Snooker |
| Italiano | biliardo, stecca |
| Ελληνικά | σνούκερ snoúker |
| Română | răsturna |
| Русский | сну́кер snúker, билья́рд bilʹjárd |
| Tiếng Việt | bi da |
| العربية | سْنُوكَر snukar, سْنُوكَر snūkar |
| עברית | סנוקר snoqr |
Talk about this word "snooker." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/snooker. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. snooker. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/snooker "snooker." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/snooker.Cite this
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title = {snooker},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
url = {https://micwyn.com/word/snooker},
urldate = {2026-11-06}
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