Definition of Snookered
1. snooker [v] - See also: snooker
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Literary usage of Snookered
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Art of Practical Billiards for Amateurs by Alfred Wilks Drayson (1889)
"A player whose ball is then " snookered " may not give a miss by just touching
his ball, and leaving his adversary the same stroke; he must play out. ..."
2. Billiards by William Broadfoot, Archibald H. Boyd, Sydenham Dixon, William Justice Ford, Dudley David Pontifex, Russell D. Walker (1896)
"In some rooms, the striker is bound, when snookered, to play a bona-fide shot
... In others, if he has to play on a coloured ball and is snookered for them ..."
3. Chamber's Encyclopaedia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge (1891)
"A great point is to avoid being snookered—ie to play on a pyramid ball so ...
If a player is snookered, his adversary adds to his score the value of the ..."
4. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1910)
"A player is " snookered " if his ball is so placed that he cannot hit a ball on
which he is compelled to play. In this case he is allowed in some rooms to ..."
5. The Encyclopedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"A player la " snookered " if his bait is so placed that he cannot hit a ball on
which he is compelled to play. In this case he is allowed in some rooms to ..."
6. The Observatory (1903)
"I think he positively loved being what is called "snookered"' in order that he
might make one billiard-ball jump over another. To such a man the world was ..."
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