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Pocket pool

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pocket-poolnounAlternative spelling of pocket pool. [A variation of the game of pool.]
pocket billiardsnounAny of a family of billiards games played on a specific class of billiards table, having six receptacles called pockets along the rails, into which balls are deposited as the main goal of play.
pocketnoun(clothing) A bag stitched to an item of clothing, used for carrying small items.
one-pocketnoun(billiards) A pool game in which points are scored by potting balls into specific designated pockets.
pin poolnounA variety of the game of billiards in which small wooden pins are set up to be knocked down by the balls.
pool tablenounA table used for playing pool.
sticknounAn elongated piece of wood or similar material, typically put to some use, for example as a wand or baton.
shell outverb(computing, especially Unix) To use a program's "shell escape" function to execute an unrelated command or to invoke a subsidiary, interactive shell.
poolnounA small and rather deep area of (usually) fresh water, as one supplied by a spring, or occurring in the course of a stream or river; a reservoir for water.
billiardsnoun(games, US) Any of various games played on a tabletop, usually with several balls, one or more of which is hit by a cue.
bagatellenounA trifle; an insubstantial thing.
novussnouna game closely related to carom, and pocket billiards.
bank poolnounA form of pool (pocket billiards) in which all scoring shots are made by banking a called ball off a cushion and into a called pocket.
black poolnounA form of the game of pool, mainly played in the 19th century, which later merged with pyramid pool to become the game of snooker.
kelly poolnounA pocket billiards game using numbered markers, called peas or pills, and a standard set of sixteen pool balls. Players draw peas at random from a shake bottle, which assigns to them the correspondingly numbered pool ball, kept secret from their opponents, but which they must pocket in order to win the game.
russian pyramidnounA form of pocket billiards played on a modified snooker table with narrower pockets.
cribbagenoun(card games) A point-counting card game for two players, with variants for three or four players; the cribbage board used for scoring to 61 or 121 points in numerous small increments is characteristic.
bar billiardsnoun(UK) A game resembling billiards, sometimes found in public houses, with pegs and holes in the surface of the table instead of side and corner pockets.
eight-ballnoun(uncountable) A pocket billiards (pool) game played with sixteen balls (a cue ball and fifteen object balls) on a pool table with six pockets.
billiard ballnounAny of the balls used in billiards.

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