1 [U] a game for two people played on a long table covered with green fabric. Players use CUES (= long sticks) to hit a white ball against other balls (15 red and 6 of other colours) in order to get the coloured balls into pockets at the edge of the table, in a particular set order:
a snooker player / table
compareBILLIARDS, POOL
2 [C] a position in snooker in which one player has made it very difficult for the opponent to play a shot within the rules
verb [VN] [usuallypassive]
1 (in the game of snooker) to have your opponent in a snooker(2)
2 (BrE, informal) to make it impossible for sb to do sth, especially sth they want to do:
Any plans I'd had for the weekend were by now well and truly snookered.
3 (AmE, informal) to deceive or trick sb
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