snooker

Universal Words noun, verb noun 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