pocket billiards
Americannoun
noun
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another name for pool 2
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any game played on a table in which the object is to pocket the balls, esp snooker and pool
Etymology
Origin of pocket billiards
First recorded in 1910–15
Example Sentences
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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
Ralph Greenleaf, 50, dapper, 16-time world champion of pocket billiards; of bronchial pneumonia; in Philadelphia.
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
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
Long ago, for no good reason, the game of pool was renamed pocket billiards.
From Time Magazine Archive
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