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[ UK /snˈuːkɐ/ ]
[ US /ˈsnʊkɝ/ ]
VERB
  1. fool or dupe
    He was snookered by the con-man's smooth talk
  2. leave one's opponent unable to take a direct shot
NOUN
  1. a form of pool played with 15 red balls and six balls of other colors and a cue ball

How To Use snooker In A Sentence

  • Young people want to play snooker and want to see it played on the biggest stage. The Sun
  • Sometime snooker world champion, perpetually in the tabloids for his substance-assisted high jinks, he's the quintessence of Essex wide-boy.
  • He said: ‘We have had bricks, snooker balls, missiles shot by catapults and all sorts.’
  • He is unfortunate to snooker himself in the pack after potting a long red.
  • The original game of bagatelle was and is a pub game of skill that is closely related to the games of Billiards, Pool and Snooker.
  • When Hawkins missed a difficult green the colour finished hanging over a corner pocket and Parrott was left in a full ball snooker.
  • You know what I mean, those blue cubes that you use to chalk up your cue when you're playing snooker or pool in an attempt to make it look like you know what you're doing.
  • For the last three years of my school life I played snooker and turned professional at the age of 16.
  • Inside were wonderfully carved, handsome pieces like six-legged snooker tables and eight-legged billiard tables.
  • Hunter put Stevens in a snooker on the yellow, and the Welshman attempted a daring escape through the narrowest of gaps.
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