snooker

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• (UK) enPR: sno͞o'kə(r), IPA^(key): /ˈsnuːkə(ɹ)/
• Rhymes: -uːkə(r)
• (US) enPR: sno͝o'kər, IPA^(key): /ˈsnʊkəɹ/
• Rhymes: -ʊkə(r)

snooker (countable and uncountable, plural snookers)

1. A cue sport, popular in the UK and other Commonwealth of Nations countries.
2. (snooker, pool) The situation where the cue ball is in such a position that the opponent cannot directly hit the required ball with it.

• Savile snooker
• volunteer snooker

snooker (third-person singular simple present snookers, present participle snookering, simple past and past participle snookered)

1. To play snooker.
2. To fool or bamboozle.

   • 2018: Ezra Klein, "Paul Ryan's Long Con", Vox.com, https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/12/10/17929460/paul-ryan-speaker-retiring-debt-deficits-trump

     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.

3. (snooker, pool) To place the cue ball in such a position that the opponent cannot directly hit the required ball with it.
4. (by extension) To put someone in a difficult situation.
5. To become or cause to become inebriated.

• billiards
• pool

Borrowed from English snooker.

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• Hyphenation: snoo‧ker
• Rhymes: -ukər

snooker m (plural snookers, diminutive snookertje n)

1. snooker

• snuukkeri (colloquial)

Borrowed from English snooker.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsnuːker/, [ˈs̠nuːke̞r]
• IPA^(key): /ˈsnuːkːer/, [ˈs̠nuːkːe̞r]

snooker

1. snooker

Borrowed from English snooker.

• IPA^(key): /snu.kɛʁ/

snooker m (plural snookers)

1. snooker

Borrowed from English snooker.

snooker m (genitive singular [please provide], plural [please provide])

1. snooker

Borrowed from English snooker.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsnu.kɛr/

snooker m inan

1. snooker