poolroom

[ pool-room, -room ]

noun

1. an establishment or room for the playing of pool or billiards.
2. a place where betting is carried on, especially illegally; a bookmaker's establishment.

poolroom

/ -ˌrʊm; ˈpuːlˌruːm /

noun

1. a hall or establishment where pool, billiards, etc, are played

Word History and Origins

Origin of poolroom¹

First recorded in 1860–65; pool ² + room

Example Sentences

Some time after Festing reached the settlement, Wilkinson and three or four others sat, smoking, in the poolroom.

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Do you mean that I should rule my conduct to suit the ideas of the drunken loafers at the settlement poolroom?

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And he told his poolroom friend a tale of India and of two plain white stones that lay somewhere within the heart of it.

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You know Jake and some others were planning to run that poolroom man out of town, even whispering about tar and feathers.

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Jake, who's been itching to lambaste the man, says 's-far's he can see, it was the poolroom man who did all the talking.

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