billiards 
billiards
Definition
bil·liards (-yərdz)
noun
- a game played with three hard balls on a rectangular table covered with cloth, esp. baize, and having raised, cushioned edges: a long, tapering stick (called a cue) is used to hit and move the balls
- any of a number of similar games: pool is sometimes called pocket billiards
Etymology: Fr billard, the game; orig., a stick, cue < OFr bille: see billet
billiards
Usage Examples
Adjective modifier
- English: Still the only in-depth guide to the technique and break-building of both snooker and English billiards that is currently available.
Modifies a noun
- championship: Had he not left Wales it is likely he would have dominated the Welsh snooker and billiards championships for many years.
- table: Any insight's into how this works with the full sized billiards table would be welcomed.
- room: Back to top of page Today: the billiards room is a cafe - a welcome stop.
- player: Like all his contemporaries Butler, who originally came from Aberdeen, but later settled in Ealing, was a billiards player.
- game: Posts all sorts billiards game click of all domestic s speaker phone.
- shot: Asteroids as small as 100 meters in diameter, therefore, could be used for a billiards shot.
Noun used with modifier
- bar: There's that increasing rarity, a bar billiards table, with a pool table in a separate room at the back.
billiards Quotes
Up, all of us, and to Billiards.
Billiards is very similar to snooker, except there are only three balls and no one watches it.
It was remarked to me by the late Mr Charles Roupellthat to play billiards well was a sign of an ill- spent youth.
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