billiards

/ˈbɪlɪədz//ˈbɪl.jɚdz/

noun

  1. 1

    (games) A two-player cue sport played with two cue balls and one red ball, on a snooker sized table.

  2. 2

    (games) The collective noun for games played on a tabletop, usually with several balls, one or more of which is hit by a cue.

Synonyms

noun

  1. 1

    A shot in billiards or snooker in which the cue ball strikes two other balls; a carom.

  2. 2

    Pertaining to the game of billiards.

    “a billiard table; a billiard ball”
  3. 3

    A dynamical system in which a particle alternates between motion in a straight line and specular reflections from a boundary.

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