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pocket billiards

pocket billiards

noun

  1. another name for pool 2
  2. any game played on a table in which the object is to pocket the balls, esp snooker and pool
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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˜yĐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of pocket billiards1

First recorded in 1910–15
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“It is my plan that we lift bass fishing up to public par with golf, bowling and pocket billiards,” he wrote in the first issue.

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In another “Twilight Zone” episode, titled “A Game of Pool,” Jonathan Winters is the late Fats Brown, the greatest pocket billiards player who ever lived.

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In the basement of his Portage home, he shoots pocket billiards with ease, explaining how and why to set up each shot.

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There will be more than 60 competitions, ranging from the traditional — track and field, boxing, ice hockey and archery — to the less-traditional angling, paintball and pocket billiards.

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You wouldn’t tolerate that if we were choosing who should go first in a game of pocket billiards, but in medicine, it’s accepted as the norm.

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