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Billiards

//ˈbɪlɪədz// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A two-player cue sport played with two cue balls and one red ball, on a snooker sized table. British, uncountable

    "He was playing billiards in the casino."

  2. 2
    plural of billiard form-of, plural
  3. 3
    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 wordnet
  4. 4
    Any of various games played on a tabletop, usually with several balls, one or more of which is hit by a cue. US, uncountable

Etymology

From French billard, originally referring to the wooden cue stick, diminutive of Old French bille (“log, tree trunk”), from Vulgar Latin *bilia, probably of Gaulish origin (compare Old Irish bile (“large tree, tree trunk”)), from Proto-Celtic *belyos (“tree”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰolh₃yos (“leaf”), from *bʰleh₃- (“blossom, flower”).

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