Now updated for CSW19. New words, if any, and new inflections of existing words, are shown in red.
baize | a coarse woollen green cloth used to cover the surface of the table; (verb) to cover with baize. |
balk baulk | the part of a snooker table marked off by the BALKLINE. |
balkline baulkline | a line drawn across a billiard table. |
bank | a cushion of a snooker or billiard table; (verb) to propel a snooker ball against the cushion. |
billiard | a particular kind of shot in BILLIARDS. |
billiards | any of various games played with a cue and balls on a rectangular table |
bouclee | a support for a CUE in billiards. |
break | a consecutive series of successful strokes, or the number of points scored from such a series. |
brickwall | a corruption of BRICOLE, a shot in billiards, involving a rebound. |
bricole | a kind of shot in billiards, involving a rebound. |
bridge | a support for a snooker CUE. |
cannon | a stroke in billiards in which the cue ball hits both the red and the opponent's ball; a similar stroke in snooker; (verb) to make a cannon shot. |
carambole | a CANNON shot in billiards; (verb) to make a CANNON shot. |
carom carrom | a cannon in billiards; (verb) to make a CANNON shot. |
contrecoup | a KISS, a light touch of a moving snooker ball on another. |
coup | in billiards, the act of putting a ball in a pocket without having hit another ball. |
cue | the stick you hit the ball with. |
cueist | a billiards-player. |
cush cushion | the padded lining on the inside of the table. |
double | to cause a ball to rebound. |
eightball | the black ball in POOL. |
english | to cause a billiard ball to spin around its vertical axis. |
hazard | in billiards, the pocketing of the object ball (winning hazard), or of the player's own ball after contact (losing hazard); |
jigger | an old name for a REST for a billiard cue. |
kiss | a light touch of a moving snooker ball on another. |
mace | an old name for a billiard CUE. |
masse | a vertical shot in billiards. The e has an accent. |
miscue | to cue a ball wrongly > MISCUES, MISCUING or MISCUEING, MISCUED. |
pique | a shot with backspin, made with the cue vertical or nearly so (cf. MASSÉ). The e has an accent. |
plant | a shot in which one pockets, or tries to pocket, a ball by causing it to be propelled by another ball which has been struck by the cue ball. |
one of a number of net bags at the side of the table. | |
pool | a game like snooker but played on a smaller table. |
pooler | a person taking part in pool. |
pot | to put a ball in a POCKET. |
respot | to put a ball back on its spot. |
rest | a support for a snooker cue. |
screw | to put SIDESPIN or BACKSPIN on the cue ball. |
side sidespin | a spin given to a ball causing it to swerve and regulating its angle of rebound. |
snooker | a situation where the path between the cue ball and the ball to be played is blocked, forcing an indirect shot to be played; (verb) to place another player in this situation. |
spider | a rest for a cue in snooker or billiards, specifically one with legs arched wide and offering several cueing positions. |
unpotted | not potted. |