pocket billiards

Noun
  1. Any of various games played on a pool table having 6 pockets (synset 100502091)
    is a type of: table game - a game that is played on a table
    subtypes: snooker - a form of pool played with 15 red balls and six balls of other colors and a cue ball
    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
    same as: pool

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