Noun

Singular snooker

Plural snookers

snooker (plural snookers)

1. A cue sport, popular in the UK and other Commonwealth countries.

Verb

Infinitive to snooker

Third person singular snookers

Simple past snookered

Past participle snookered

Present participle snookering

to 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.
3. (snooker, pool) To place the cue ball in such a position that the opponent cannot directly hit his/her required ball with it.
4. To become or cause to become inebriated.

Snooker is a cue sport that is played on a large baize-covered table with pockets in each of the four corners and in the middle of each of the long side cushions. A regulation (full-size) table is 12 ft × 6 ft (3.6 m x 1.8 m). It is played using a cue and snooker balls: one white cue ball, 15 red balls worth one point each, and six balls of different colours yellow (2 points), green (3), brown (4), blue (5), pink (6) and black (7). A player (or team) wins a frame (individual game) of snooker by scoring more points than the opponent(s), using the cue ball to pot the red and coloured balls. A player wins a match when a certain number of frames have been won.

Snooker, generally regarded as having been invented in India by British Army officers, is particularly popular in many of the English-speaking and Commonwealth countries, with top professional players attaining multi-million pound career earnings from the game.