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snooker noun 1 a game played with long leather-tipped sticks, or cues, 15 red balls, one white cue ball and six balls of other colours, the object being to use the white cue ball to knock the non-white balls in a certain order into any of the six pockets on the corners and sides of a large cloth-covered table, and to gain more points than the opponent. 2 in this game: a position in which the path between the white ball and the target ball is obstructed by another ball. verb (snookered, snookering) 1 in snooker: to force (an opponent) to attempt to hit an obstructed target ball. 2 colloq to thwart (a person or a plan).
ETYMOLOGY: 19c.
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