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Definition of snooker in English: snookernoun ˈsnuːkəˈsnʊkər mass noun1A game played with cues on a billiard table in which the players use a cue ball (white) to pocket the other balls (fifteen red and six coloured) in a set order. 彩色台球,斯诺克 as modifier a snooker hall Example sentencesExamples - He had previously played football with Sutton United and liked to watch snooker as well.
- To go out in my first match in snooker's second biggest tournament is very hard to accept.
- There what I found was many ladies tend to take part in pool and they also compete in international tournaments even when it comes to billiards and snooker.
- Forthcoming events include table football, tennis and snooker tournaments with a big event being planned for the near future.
- He has produced quality snooker during the past fortnight - and on a consistent basis.
- A committee meeting will be held on Thursday night, names are being taken for the first tournament of the year, billiards and snooker, so we hope for a big response.
- Lovers of the game feel that billiards and snooker will die a slow death in India as long as the games remain unknown to the common man.
- For the last three years of my school life I played snooker and turned professional at the age of 16.
- Workmen have been busy this week refitting and modifying the Barbican Centre to accommodate the second most important tournament in world snooker.
- If you play a couple of games of snooker and then go play ‘normal’ billiards, you'll play like a pro (for a little while).
- He may not play top-class snooker again, but the comeback from cancer is his biggest triumph of all.
- The balls are 61.5mm in diameter, much larger than in snooker or billiards.
- None of them will be encouraged to abandon school early to spend their formative years in shadowy snooker halls.
- We were told the building was sold for £90,000 and will open as a gym and snooker hall.
- Those who survive will play in York when the city hosts a major ranking snooker tournament for the first time.
- However, the hall will remain open on Thursday nights and Saturday nights during the summer for anyone who wants a game of pool, snooker or billiards.
- He still drank, smoked, gambled and played snooker for money.
- The tournaments in billiards and snooker will soon be commencing so members should come in and get in some practice.
- He played his best snooker for years in the Regal Welsh Open and this one is hard to call.
- I used to drink with a neighbour and we often talked about playing snooker.
- 1.1count noun A position in a game of snooker or pool in which a player cannot make a direct shot at any permitted ball.
在彩色台球中阻碍运动员打直线球的位置 he needed a snooker to have a chance of winning the frame 他需要有一个能阻碍对手打直线球的位置才有机会赢得这轮。 Example sentencesExamples - He gave me a frame when I was 26 in front with six reds on and then he's played on in the next frame after that when he needed three snookers.
- Leading 5-3 at the end of the afternoon session he won a remarkable opening frame last night by scoring 16 penalty points from two snookers and two free balls to take the frame when all had seemed lost.
- Wood gained four points from a snooker on the last red which left him ideally positioned for a clearance.
- Hunter put Stevens in a snooker on the yellow, and the Welshman attempted a daring escape through the narrowest of gaps.
- I return to the table a few shots later to learn I need six snookers.
verbˈsnuːkəˈsnʊkər [with object]1Subject (oneself or one's opponent) to a snooker. 使(自己或他人)不能打直线球 he potted yellow and green, and then snookered Davis on the brown Hendry led, but then snookered himself Example sentencesExamples - On his first visit Tony cleared the rest of his spots but snookered himself on the black.
- He led 53-8 with two reds left in the 16th frame but snookered himself on the second last red.
- But the initiative was handed back to him after Dott snookered himself on the brown after potting the green and he was able to nick the frame.
- Unfortunately, having potted his first (and only ball as it turned out to be) Richard snookered himself.
- Despite accidentally sinking the white ball and then being craftily snookered by Mac, he played his way out of most problems including a spectacular bank-shot sinking his red stripe into a centre pocket.
- 1.1British Leave (someone) in a difficult position; thwart.
〈喻〉使(某人)处于困境;阻碍 I managed to lose my flat keys—that was me snookered 我竟然把房子钥匙丢了——这下我陷入困境了。 Example sentencesExamples - The Democrats were snookered because they couldn't say that they were against homosexual equality without alienating voters who were already in the bag.
- I was pretty apprehensive prior to the ride, as I was aware that it was pretty early in the season and my attempts to get a solid training ride or two into my legs had been snookered by various mechanicals and the consequences thereof.
- They got that briefing yesterday and moved fast to avoid being snookered by the Government, proposing and today supporting legislation to ban the two organisations.
- California has snookered itself, thinking it's defeated politics as usual.
- The Americans were snookered by their own arrogant assumption that they were dealing with an enemy who could only copy, badly, the wartime devices of the day.
Synonyms thwart, defeat, foil, block, stop, put a stop to, counter, spoil, check, baulk, circumvent, disappoint, forestall, bar, dash, scotch, quash, crush, derail, nip in the bud, baffle, nullify - 1.2US Trick, entice, or trap.
〈喻,美〉欺骗,诱惑,引入圈套 they were snookered into buying books at prices that were too high 他们被骗以高价购买书籍。 Example sentencesExamples - Ironically, even the author of the famed phrase ‘irrational exuberance’ was snookered into believing that the old laws of economics had somehow been repealed.
- The US was snookered by these expatriates, all right.
- Billy had been snookered by them a couple of times.
- Once again, I'd been snookered by the Literacy Lady.
- Was the press snookered by all this official reassurance, and maybe is just now waking up to reality?
- Of course, you could try to snooker a bummed owner into trading one of them to you - that, we encourage.
- Read his concurrence before suggesting he was snookered, sold-out, or whatever else you want to read into his vote.
- Realizing he has been snookered, Esau goes on the warpath and hunts down Jacob.
- They just can't avoid being manipulated, tricked, conned, used, snookered, bamboozled, hoodwinked, rum amok and conned by men.
- It is a scenario where politicians couldn't even promise results as labour law snookered workers dogged by bad, bad luck after a life-time commitment to an industry that simply moved from Athy.
- Normally, I'm sympathetic to investors who get snookered by the volatility and outright lies that drive so many small-cap stocks.
- Sure, show the kids that the parents don't mean what they say and can be snookered into taking back a punishment.
- Farmers are also realizing governments and industry have snookered them.
- Apparently you are being snookered into making offers.
- Here, in the coming days, the Americans are in danger of being seriously snookered.
Synonyms charm, attract, enchant, entrance, win over, woo, captivate, bewitch, spellbind, dazzle, blind, hypnotize, mesmerize, seduce, tempt, lead on, lure, entice, ensnare, entrap
OriginLate 19th century: of unknown origin. Both the game and the word snooker originated among British army officers serving in India in the 1870s. Colonel Sir Neville Chamberlain (not the future British prime minister) is said to have coined the name for a fast-moving version of billiards that he and his associates in the officers' mess had devised. Snooker was already army slang for ‘a newly joined cadet’, and the choice of name may have been intended to refer to the inept play of a fellow officer.
Rhymesbazooka, euchre, farruca, lucre, palooka, pooka, rebuker, Stuka, verruca Definition of snooker in US English: snookernounˈsnʊkərˈsno͝okər 1A game played with cues on a billiard table in which the players use a cue ball (white) to pocket the other balls (fifteen red and six colored) in a set order. 彩色台球,斯诺克 Example sentencesExamples - He has produced quality snooker during the past fortnight - and on a consistent basis.
- None of them will be encouraged to abandon school early to spend their formative years in shadowy snooker halls.
- Workmen have been busy this week refitting and modifying the Barbican Centre to accommodate the second most important tournament in world snooker.
- The tournaments in billiards and snooker will soon be commencing so members should come in and get in some practice.
- There what I found was many ladies tend to take part in pool and they also compete in international tournaments even when it comes to billiards and snooker.
- If you play a couple of games of snooker and then go play ‘normal’ billiards, you'll play like a pro (for a little while).
- Forthcoming events include table football, tennis and snooker tournaments with a big event being planned for the near future.
- A committee meeting will be held on Thursday night, names are being taken for the first tournament of the year, billiards and snooker, so we hope for a big response.
- He may not play top-class snooker again, but the comeback from cancer is his biggest triumph of all.
- For the last three years of my school life I played snooker and turned professional at the age of 16.
- Lovers of the game feel that billiards and snooker will die a slow death in India as long as the games remain unknown to the common man.
- We were told the building was sold for £90,000 and will open as a gym and snooker hall.
- The balls are 61.5mm in diameter, much larger than in snooker or billiards.
- To go out in my first match in snooker's second biggest tournament is very hard to accept.
- Those who survive will play in York when the city hosts a major ranking snooker tournament for the first time.
- I used to drink with a neighbour and we often talked about playing snooker.
- He had previously played football with Sutton United and liked to watch snooker as well.
- He still drank, smoked, gambled and played snooker for money.
- He played his best snooker for years in the Regal Welsh Open and this one is hard to call.
- However, the hall will remain open on Thursday nights and Saturday nights during the summer for anyone who wants a game of pool, snooker or billiards.
- 1.1 A position in a game of snooker or pool in which a player cannot make a direct shot at any permitted ball; a shot placing an opponent in such a position.
在彩色台球中阻碍运动员打直线球的位置 he needed a snooker to have a chance of winning the frame 他需要有一个能阻碍对手打直线球的位置才有机会赢得这轮。 Example sentencesExamples - He gave me a frame when I was 26 in front with six reds on and then he's played on in the next frame after that when he needed three snookers.
- Wood gained four points from a snooker on the last red which left him ideally positioned for a clearance.
- Leading 5-3 at the end of the afternoon session he won a remarkable opening frame last night by scoring 16 penalty points from two snookers and two free balls to take the frame when all had seemed lost.
- I return to the table a few shots later to learn I need six snookers.
- Hunter put Stevens in a snooker on the yellow, and the Welshman attempted a daring escape through the narrowest of gaps.
verbˈsnʊkərˈsno͝okər [with object]1Subject (oneself or one's opponent) to a snooker. 使(自己或他人)不能打直线球 Example sentencesExamples - He led 53-8 with two reds left in the 16th frame but snookered himself on the second last red.
- Despite accidentally sinking the white ball and then being craftily snookered by Mac, he played his way out of most problems including a spectacular bank-shot sinking his red stripe into a centre pocket.
- On his first visit Tony cleared the rest of his spots but snookered himself on the black.
- Unfortunately, having potted his first (and only ball as it turned out to be) Richard snookered himself.
- But the initiative was handed back to him after Dott snookered himself on the brown after potting the green and he was able to nick the frame.
- 1.1British Leave (someone) in a difficult position; thwart.
〈喻〉使(某人)处于困境;阻碍 I managed to lose my car keys—that was me snookered 我竟然把房子钥匙丢了——这下我陷入困境了。 Example sentencesExamples - The Americans were snookered by their own arrogant assumption that they were dealing with an enemy who could only copy, badly, the wartime devices of the day.
- They got that briefing yesterday and moved fast to avoid being snookered by the Government, proposing and today supporting legislation to ban the two organisations.
- I was pretty apprehensive prior to the ride, as I was aware that it was pretty early in the season and my attempts to get a solid training ride or two into my legs had been snookered by various mechanicals and the consequences thereof.
- California has snookered itself, thinking it's defeated politics as usual.
- The Democrats were snookered because they couldn't say that they were against homosexual equality without alienating voters who were already in the bag.
Synonyms thwart, defeat, foil, block, stop, put a stop to, counter, spoil, check, baulk, circumvent, disappoint, forestall, bar, dash, scotch, quash, crush, derail, nip in the bud, baffle, nullify - 1.2US Trick, entice, or trap.
〈喻,美〉欺骗,诱惑,引入圈套 they were snookered into buying books at prices that were too high 他们被骗以高价购买书籍。 Example sentencesExamples - Here, in the coming days, the Americans are in danger of being seriously snookered.
- It is a scenario where politicians couldn't even promise results as labour law snookered workers dogged by bad, bad luck after a life-time commitment to an industry that simply moved from Athy.
- Sure, show the kids that the parents don't mean what they say and can be snookered into taking back a punishment.
- Farmers are also realizing governments and industry have snookered them.
- Realizing he has been snookered, Esau goes on the warpath and hunts down Jacob.
- Normally, I'm sympathetic to investors who get snookered by the volatility and outright lies that drive so many small-cap stocks.
- Apparently you are being snookered into making offers.
- Ironically, even the author of the famed phrase ‘irrational exuberance’ was snookered into believing that the old laws of economics had somehow been repealed.
- Of course, you could try to snooker a bummed owner into trading one of them to you - that, we encourage.
- Once again, I'd been snookered by the Literacy Lady.
- The US was snookered by these expatriates, all right.
- Was the press snookered by all this official reassurance, and maybe is just now waking up to reality?
- Billy had been snookered by them a couple of times.
- Read his concurrence before suggesting he was snookered, sold-out, or whatever else you want to read into his vote.
- They just can't avoid being manipulated, tricked, conned, used, snookered, bamboozled, hoodwinked, rum amok and conned by men.
Synonyms charm, attract, enchant, entrance, win over, woo, captivate, bewitch, spellbind, dazzle, blind, hypnotize, mesmerize, seduce, tempt, lead on, lure, entice, ensnare, entrap
OriginLate 19th century: of unknown origin. |