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nounany 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) ballstype of:
Definition that contains billiards
- break the opening shot that scatters the balls in billiards or pool
- cannon a shot in billiards in which the cue ball contacts one object ball and then the other
- cue sports implement consisting of a tapering rod used to strike a cue ball in pool or billiards
- billiard of or relating to billiards
- masse 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
- carom a shot in billiards in which the cue ball contacts one object ball and then the other
- miscue a faulty shot in billiards; the cue tip slips off the cue ball
- cue stick sports implement consisting of a tapering rod used to strike a cue ball in pool or billiards
- billiard player someone who plays billiards
- billiard marker a device for keeping the score in a game of billiards