snooker
See also: Snooker
snooker - English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: sno͞oʹkə(r), IPA: /ˈsnuːkə(ɹ)/
- (General American) enPR: sno͝oʹkər, IPA: /ˈsnʊkɚ/
Noun
snooker (countable and uncountable, plural snookers)
- A cue sport, popular in the UK and other Commonwealth of Nations countries.
- (snooker, pool) The situation where the cue ball is in such a position that the player cannot directly hit a legal ball with it.
- She put her opponent in a snooker.
Derived terms
Translations
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Verb
snooker (third-person singular simple present snookers, present participle snookering, simple past and past participle snookered)
- (intransitive) To play the game of snooker.
- (transitive) To fool or bamboozle.
- (transitive, snooker, pool) To place the cue ball in such a position that (the opponent) cannot directly hit the required ball with it.
- (transitive, by extension) To put (someone) in a difficult situation.
- To become or cause to become inebriated.
snooker - Dutch
Pronunciation
- Hyphenation: snoo‧ker
Noun
snooker m (plural snookers, diminutive snookertje n)
snooker - Finnish
Alternative forms
- snuukkeri (colloquial)
Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈsnuːker/, [ˈs̠nuːk̟e̞r]
- IPA: /ˈsnuːkːer/, [ˈs̠nuːkːe̞r]
Noun
snooker
Declension
| Inflection of snooker (Kotus type 6/paperi, no gradation) | ||||
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| nominative | snooker | snookerit | ||
| genitive | snookerin | snookerien snookereiden snookereitten | ||
| partitive | snookeria | snookereita snookereja | ||
| illative | snookeriin | snookereihin | ||
| singular | plural | |||
| nominative | snooker | snookerit | ||
| accusative | nom. | snooker | snookerit | |
| gen. | snookerin | |||
| genitive | snookerin | snookerien snookereiden snookereitten | ||
| partitive | snookeria | snookereita snookereja | ||
| inessive | snookerissa | snookereissa | ||
| elative | snookerista | snookereista | ||
| illative | snookeriin | snookereihin | ||
| adessive | snookerilla | snookereilla | ||
| ablative | snookerilta | snookereilta | ||
| allative | snookerille | snookereille | ||
| essive | snookerina | snookereina | ||
| translative | snookeriksi | snookereiksi | ||
| instructive | — | snookerein | ||
| abessive | snookeritta | snookereitta | ||
| comitative | See the possessive forms below. | |||
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snooker - French
Pronunciation
- IPA: /snu.kœʁ/
Noun
snooker m (plural snookers)
snooker - Manx
Noun
snooker m (genitive singular [please provide], plural [please provide])
Mutation
| Manx mutation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
| snooker | nooker after "yn", tnooker | unchanged |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||
snooker - Polish
Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈsnu.kɛr/
- Syllabification: snoo‧ker
Noun
snooker m inan
- snooker (cue sport)