Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English - snooker
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Snooker
snooker
~1 n a game played on a special table covered in green cloth, in which two people hit coloured balls into holes at the sides and corners of the table with cues (=long sticks) ~2 v (T, often passive) ~ BrE informal to make it impossible for someone to do what they want to do (If the council refuses our planning application, we're snookered.)
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(snookers, snookering, snookered) 1. Snooker is a game involving balls on a large table. The players use a long stick to hit a white ball, and score points by knocking coloured balls into the pockets at the sides of the table. ...a game of snooker... They were playing snooker. N-UNCOUNT 2. If you are snookered by something, it is difficult or impossible for you to take action or do what you want to do. (BRIT INFORMAL) The President has been snookered on this issue. VERB: usu passive, be V-ed ...Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
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I. noun Etymology: origin unknown Date: 1889 a variation of pool played with 15 red balls and 6 variously colored balls II. transitive verb Date: 1925 to make a dupe of ; hoodwink ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
3.
n. & v. --n. 1 a game played with cues on a rectangular baize-covered table in which the players use a cue-ball (white) to pocket the other balls (15 red and 6 coloured) in a set order. 2 a position in this game in which a direct shot at a permitted ball is impossible. --v.tr. 1 (also refl.) subject (oneself or another player) to a snooker. 2 (esp. as snookered adj.) sl. defeat; thwart. Etymology: 19th c.: orig. unkn. ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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1. снукер (игра на бильярде) 2. сл. объегорить, облапошить 3. сл. подставить ножку, помешать в достижении цели to be snookered —- сесть в калошу ...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
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- 1889, the game and the word said to have been invented in India by British officers as a diversion from billiards. The name is perhaps an allusion (with reference to the rawness of play by a fellow officer) to British slang snooker "newly joined cadet" (1872). Tradition ascribes the name to Col. Sir Neville Chamberlain (1856-1944), at the time subaltern in the Devonshire Regiment in Jubbulpore. The verb meaning "to cheat" is from early 1900s, probably because novices can be easily tricked in the game. ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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