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stooker
English
Etymology
stook +? -er
Noun
stooker (plural stookers)
- (historical) One who stooks.
Translations
Anagrams
- Tookers, strooke
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snooker
English
Etymology
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Pronunciation
- (UK) enPR: sno?o'k?(r), IPA(key): /?snu?k?(?)/
- Rhymes: -u?k?(r)
- (General American) enPR: sno?o'k?r, IPA(key): /?sn?k??/
- Rhymes: -?k?(r)
Noun
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 opponent cannot directly hit a legal ball with it.
Derived terms
- Savile snooker
- volunteer snooker
Translations
Verb
snooker (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", Vox.com, https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/12/10/17929460/paul-ryan-speaker-retiring-debt-deficits-trump
- 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", Vox.com, https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/12/10/17929460/paul-ryan-speaker-retiring-debt-deficits-trump
- (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.
- To become or cause to become inebriated. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
See also
- billiards
- pool
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from English snooker.
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: snoo?ker
- Rhymes: -uk?r
Noun
snooker m (plural snookers, diminutive snookertje n)
- snooker
Finnish
(index sn)
Alternative forms
- snuukkeri (colloquial)
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English snooker.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?snu?ker/, [?s?nu?ke?r]
- IPA(key): /?snu?k?er/, [?s?nu?k?e?r]
Noun
snooker
- snooker
Declension
French
Etymology
Borrowed from English snooker.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /snu.k??/
Noun
snooker m (plural snookers)
- snooker
Manx
Etymology
Borrowed from English snooker.
Noun
snooker m (genitive singular [please provide], plural [please provide])
- snooker
Mutation
Polish
Etymology
Borrowed from English snooker.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?snu.k?r/
Noun
snooker m inan
- snooker
Declension
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