Snooker

//ˈsnuːkə(ɹ)// noun, verb

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A cue sport, popular in the UK and other Commonwealth of Nations countries. countable, uncountable
  2. 2
    a form of pool played with 15 red balls and six balls of other colors and a cue ball wordnet
  3. 3
    The situation where the cue ball is in such a position that the player cannot directly hit a legal ball with it. countable, uncountable

    "She put her opponent in a snooker."

Verb
  1. 1
    To play the game of snooker. intransitive
  2. 2
    leave one's opponent unable to take a direct shot wordnet
  3. 3
    To fool or bamboozle. transitive

    "But to critics like the New York Times's Paul Krugman, Ryan was an obvious con man weaponizing the deficit to hamstring Obama's presidency, weaken the recovery, and snooker Beltway centrists eager to champion a reasonable-seeming Republican."

  4. 4
    fool or dupe wordnet
  5. 5
    To place the cue ball in such a position that (the opponent) cannot directly hit the required ball with it. ambitransitive
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  1. 6
    To put (someone) in a difficult situation. broadly, transitive

    "Sam McDougall, Operations Director for NR's East Coast Route, explains: "Until recently, if anything went wrong in the two-track section between Stoke and Doncaster, we were snookered."

  2. 7
    To cause to become inebriated. transitive

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