snooker
See also: Snooker
English
editEtymology
edit(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Pronunciation
editAudio (UK): (file) - (Received Pronunciation) enPR: sno͞oʹkə(r), IPA(key): /ˈsnuːkə(ɹ)/
- (General American) enPR: sno͝oʹkər, IPA(key): /ˈsnʊkɚ/
- Rhymes: -uːkə(ɹ), -ʊkə(ɹ)
Noun
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snooker (countable and uncountable, plural snookers)
- A cue sport, popular in the UK and other Commonwealth of Nations countries.
- (snooker, pool) The situation where the cue ball is in such a position that the player cannot directly hit a legal ball with it.
- She put her opponent in a snooker.
Derived terms
editTranslations
editcue sport
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Verb
editsnooker (third-person singular simple present snookers, present participle snookering, simple past and past participle snookered)
- (intransitive) To play the game of snooker. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
- (transitive) To fool or bamboozle.
- 2018, Ezra Klein, “Paul Ryan's Long Con”, in Vox.com[1]:
- But to critics like the New York Times's Paul Krugman, Ryan was an obvious con man weaponizing the deficit to hamstring Obama's presidency, weaken the recovery, and snooker Beltway centrists eager to champion a reasonable-seeming Republican.
- 2023, Daniel Duane, “It’s August. Californians Are Still Skiing. Don’t Ask.”, in nytimes.com[2]:
- Los Angeles would still be a piddling little town in a desert if it weren’t for Sierra snowmelt and city officials crafty enough to snooker eastern California farmers out of their water rights.
- (transitive, snooker, pool) To place the cue ball in such a position that (the opponent) cannot directly hit the required ball with it.
- (transitive, by extension) To put (someone) in a difficult situation.
- 2023 July 12, Ben Jones, “'Thunderbirds' are go on the ECML...”, in RAIL, number 987, page 34:
- Sam McDougall, Operations Director for NR's East Coast Route, explains: "Until recently, if anything went wrong in the two-track section between Stoke and Doncaster, we were snookered.
- To become or cause to become inebriated. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
See also
editDutch
editEtymology
editBorrowed from English snooker.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editsnooker m (plural snookers, diminutive snookertje n)
Finnish
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editUnadapted borrowing from English snooker.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editsnooker
Declension
edit| Inflection of snooker (Kotus type 6/paperi, no gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | snooker | snookerit | |
| genitive | snookerin | snookerien snookereiden snookereitten | |
| partitive | snookeria | snookereita snookereja | |
| illative | snookeriin | snookereihin | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | snooker | snookerit | |
| accusative | nom. | snooker | snookerit |
| gen. | snookerin | ||
| genitive | snookerin | snookerien snookereiden snookereitten | |
| partitive | snookeria | snookereita snookereja | |
| inessive | snookerissa | snookereissa | |
| elative | snookerista | snookereista | |
| illative | snookeriin | snookereihin | |
| adessive | snookerilla | snookereilla | |
| ablative | snookerilta | snookereilta | |
| allative | snookerille | snookereille | |
| essive | snookerina | snookereina | |
| translative | snookeriksi | snookereiksi | |
| abessive | snookeritta | snookereitta | |
| instructive | — | snookerein | |
| comitative | See the possessive forms below. | ||
Further reading
edit- “snooker”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish][3] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03
French
editEtymology
editBorrowed from English snooker.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editsnooker m (plural snookers)
Polish
editEtymology
editUnadapted borrowing from English snooker.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editsnooker m inan
- snooker (cue sport)
Declension
editDeclension of snooker
| singular | |
|---|---|
| nominative | snooker |
| genitive | snookera |
| dative | snookerowi |
| accusative | snooker |
| instrumental | snookerem |
| locative | snookerze |
| vocative | snookerze |
Further reading
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- English terms with audio pronunciation
- English 2-syllable words
- English terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:English/uːkə(ɹ)
- Rhymes:English/uːkə(ɹ)/2 syllables
- Rhymes:English/ʊkə(ɹ)
- Rhymes:English/ʊkə(ɹ)/2 syllables
- English lemmas
- English nouns
- English uncountable nouns
- English countable nouns
- en:Snooker
- English terms with usage examples
- English verbs
- English intransitive verbs
- English transitive verbs
- English terms with quotations
- Dutch terms borrowed from English
- Dutch terms derived from English
- Dutch terms with audio pronunciation
- Rhymes:Dutch/ukər
- Rhymes:Dutch/ukər/2 syllables
- Dutch lemmas
- Dutch nouns
- Dutch nouns with plural in -s
- Dutch masculine nouns
- Finnish terms borrowed from English
- Finnish unadapted borrowings from English
- Finnish terms derived from English
- Finnish 2-syllable words
- Finnish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Finnish/uːker
- Rhymes:Finnish/uːker/2 syllables
- Finnish lemmas
- Finnish nouns
- Finnish paperi-type nominals
- French terms borrowed from English
- French terms derived from English
- French 2-syllable words
- French terms with IPA pronunciation
- French terms with audio pronunciation
- French lemmas
- French nouns
- French countable nouns
- French terms spelled with K
- French masculine nouns
- Polish terms borrowed from English
- Polish unadapted borrowings from English
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- Polish 2-syllable words
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- Rhymes:Polish/ukɛr
- Rhymes:Polish/ukɛr/2 syllables
- Polish lemmas
- Polish nouns
- Polish masculine nouns
- Polish inanimate nouns
- Polish singularia tantum
- pl:Snooker