billiards

Noun
  1. Any of several games played on rectangular cloth-covered table (with cushioned edges) in which long tapering cue sticks are used to propel ivory (or composition) balls (synset 100500935)
    associated with:
    • cannon - make a cannon
    • break - make the opening shot that scatters the balls
    • carom - make a carom
    is a type of: table game - a game that is played on a table
    has:
    • break - the opening shot that scatters the balls in billiards or pool
    • cannon, carom - a shot in billiards in which the cue ball contacts one object ball and then the other
    • masse, masse shot - a shot in billiards made by hitting the cue ball with the cue held nearly vertically; the cue ball spins around another ball before hitting the object ball
    • miscue - a faulty shot in billiards; the cue tip slips off the cue ball

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