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had snookered

  • past perfect
    of snooker.
    snooker
    noun
    a variety of pool played with 15 red balls and 6 balls of colors other than red, in which a player must shoot one of the red balls, each with a point value of 1, into a pocket before shooting at one of the other balls, with point values of from 2 to 7.

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Strategists for both camps were both convinced that they had snookered the other.

From Washington Post ● May 4, 2016

That both men were in a celebratory mood might reflect the fact that each camp came away convinced it had snookered the other.

From Time Magazine Archive