massé

American  

[ma-sey, mas-ee] / mæˈseɪ, ˈmæs i /

noun

Billiards.

1. a stroke made by hitting the cue ball with the cue held almost or quite perpendicular to the table.

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massé British  

/ ˈmæsɪ /

noun

1. billiards a stroke made by hitting the cue ball off centre with the cue held nearly vertically, esp so as to make the ball move in a curve around another ball before hitting the object ball

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Etymology

Origin of massé

1870–75; < French: literally, hammered, i.e., struck from above, straight down, equivalent to masse sledge hammer ( Old French mace; mace ¹ ) + -é -ee

Example Sentences

“If AI is eliminating tech jobs en masse, software engineering jobs should be crashing as AI is particularly good at writing code,” Kennedy wrote in an email prior to the release.

From MarketWatch

Police units and intelligence services also suppressed rallies and arrested protesters en masse.

From The Wall Street Journal

Social media campaigners encouraged their followers, even the A.I. skeptics, to download Claude en masse.

From Slate

While Iran has a limited supply of ballistic missiles, it is believed to have an arsenal of many thousands of unmanned aerial vehicles and has the ability to produce them en masse, said Danny Citrinowicz, a former Israeli military intelligence official and now a senior researcher at the Tel Aviv-based Institute for National Security Studies.

From The Wall Street Journal

People were not, however, coming out en masse to celebrate, according to social media.

From Barron's