snooker

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• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: sno͞oʹkə(r), IPA^(key): /ˈsnuːkə(ɹ)/
• (General American) enPR: sno͝oʹkər, IPA^(key): /ˈsnʊkɚ/
• Rhymes: -uːkə(ɹ), -ʊkə(ɹ)

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 a legal ball with it.

   She put her opponent in a snooker.

• Savile snooker
• volunteer snooker

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

1. (intransitive) To play the game of snooker. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
2. (transitive) To fool or bamboozle.
   • 2018, Ezra Klein, “Paul Ryan's Long Con”, in Vox.com‎:

     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. (transitive, snooker, pool) To place the cue ball in such a position that (the opponent) cannot directly hit the required ball with it.
4. (transitive, by extension) To put (someone) in a difficult situation.
5. To become or cause to become inebriated. (Can we add an example for this sense?)

• 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)

Unadapted borrowing from English snooker.

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

snooker

1. snooker

Borrowed from English snooker.

• IPA^(key): /snu.kœʁ/

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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/
• Rhymes: -ukɛr
• Syllabification: snoo‧ker

snooker m inan

1. snooker

• snooker in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• snooker in Polish dictionaries at PWN