snooker
/ˈsnʊkɚ/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.03 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A cue sport, popular in the UK and other Commonwealth of Nations countries.
Countable; Uncountable
noun
The situation where the cue ball is in such a position that the player cannot directly hit a legal ball with it.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "She put her opponent in a snooker."
- "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."
- "Los Angeles would still be a piddling little town in a desert if it weren’t for Sierra snowmelt and city officials crafty enough to snooker eastern California farmers out of their water rights."
- "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."
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈsnʊkɚ/
- British English: /ˈsnuːkə(ɹ)/