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snookerVariation of English billiards. It is played with 15 red balls and 6 variously coloured balls. Snooker arose, probably in India, as a game for soldiers in the 1870s. Players try to pocket first the red and then the nonred balls, scoring one point for each red ball and the number value of the others. “Snooker” refers to the position of the cue ball when it cannot hit a required ball. snooker 1. a game played on a billiard table with 15 red balls, six balls of other colours, and a white cue ball. The object is to pot the balls in a certain order 2. a shot in which the cue ball is left in a position such that another ball blocks the object ball. The opponent is then usually forced to play the cue ball off a cushion www.worldsnooker.com How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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But if it ends up being the whole deal, Valley residents are getting snookered again. His book Reading Educational Research Between the Lines: How Not to Get Statistically Snookered will be published by Heinemann in February. Despite--and sometimes because of--the Food and Drug Administration's efforts to clean up serving-size confusion, you can still get snookered into eating far more calories, sat fat, and sodium than you think. |
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