snooker
/ˈsnuːkə(ɹ)/US/ˈsnʊkɚ/
snooker noun: a cue sport, popular in the UK and other Commonwealth of Nations countries.
Noun
snooker (countable and uncountable, plural snookers)
- A cue sport, popular in the UK and other Commonwealth of Nations countries.
- 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.
Verb
snooker (third-person singular simple present snookers, present participle snookering, simple past and past participle snookered)
- To play the game of snooker.
- To fool or bamboozle.
- 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.2018, Ezra Klein, “Paul Ryan's Long Con”, in Vox.com
- 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.2023 August 6, Daniel Duane, “It’s August. Californians Are Still Skiing. Don’t Ask.”, in The New York Times
- To place the cue ball in such a position that (the opponent) cannot directly hit the required ball with it.
- To put (someone) in a difficult situation.
- 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.2023 July 12, Ben Jones, “'Thunderbirds' are go on the ECML...”, in RAIL, number 987, page 34
- To cause to become inebriated.
snooker meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
snooker in Hindi
- cue sport
- स्नूकर snūkar
snooker in Tamil
- cue sport
- ஸ்னூக்கர் sṉūkkar
snooker in Marathi
- स्नूकर, स्नुकर, स्नूकर करण्यासाठी
snooker in Urdu
- سنوکر, اسنوکر
More languagesFewer languages
- snooker in Bengali
- স্নুকার snukar
- snooker in Telugu
- స్నూకర్ snūkar
- snooker in Malayalam
- സ്നൂക്കർ, സ്നൂകർ
- snooker in Kannada
- ಸ್ನೂಕರ್ snūkar
- snooker in Punjabi
- ਸਨੂਕਰ, ਸਨੂੱਕਰ, ਸ੍ਨੂਕਰ
- snooker in Gujarati
- સ્નૂકર snūkar
- snooker in Odia
- ସ୍ନୁକର snukara
- snooker in Sinhala
- ජ්යෙෂ්ඨ මලල jyeṣṭha malala
- snooker in Nepali
- स्नूकर, स्नुकर, स्नुकरिंग
- snooker in Pashto
- سنوکر snuker
- snooker in Tagalog
- snuker
- snooker in Arabic
- سْنُوكَر snukar
- snooker in Malay
- snuker
- snooker in Indonesian
- snoker
- snooker in Persian
- اسنوکر esnuker
- snooker in Thai
- เฟรม fraym
- snooker in Vietnamese
- bi da
Examples of snooker in a sentence
- Oh dear, he's left himself snookered behind the pink.
- I'll see you later up the snooker club.
- I don’t play snooker a lot these days.
Forms of snooker
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | snookers |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | snookers |
| present participle | snookering |
| past participle | snookered |
| past | snookered |
Words formed from snooker
Phrases with snooker
Words that rhyme with snooker
Questions about snooker
- What does snooker mean?
- Snooker means a cue sport, popular in the UK and other Commonwealth of Nations countries.
- What is snooker in Hindi?
- Snooker in Hindi is स्नूकर (snūkar). See Snooker meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is snooker?
- Snooker can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce snooker?
- Snooker is pronounced /ˈsnuːkə(ɹ)/ (UK).
- What is the plural of snooker?
- The plural of snooker is snookers.
Words near snooker in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: snooker (page history and authors); snooker (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); snooker (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); snooker (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); snooker (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); snooker (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
Last updated:
Pronunciation audio from Wikimedia Commons, each file under its own free license: en-uk-snooker.ogg.
Cite this entry: “snooker.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/snooker. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.