pocket billiards

American  

noun

1. pool.

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pocket billiards British  

noun

1. another name for pool 2

2. any game played on a table in which the object is to pocket the balls, esp snooker and pool

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Etymology

Origin of pocket billiards

First recorded in 1910–15

Example Sentences

In another “Twilight Zone” episode, titled “A Game of Pool,” Jonathan Winters is the late Fats Brown, the greatest pocket billiards player who ever lived.

From Washington Post • Dec. 29, 2015

Champion Willie Mosconi, who makes about $9,000 a year at his job, hopes to cash in on the renaissance of pocket billiards.

From Time Magazine Archive

The decor is bright and comfortable, a sharp contrast to the smoky atmosphere that once made bowling nearly as disreputable as pocket billiards.

From Time Magazine Archive

For the first time in many years there were more than eight players in the world's championship pocket billiards tournament which ended in Philadelphia last week.

From Time Magazine Archive

Most impolite child is pool, which well-meaning persons have tried to dignify by calling it pocket billiards, publicizing it as a family game, rigging up modernistic equipment.

From Time Magazine Archive