snooker

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verb frustrate, hinder

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Word Origin & History

1889, the game and the word said in an oft-told story to have been invented in India by British officers as a diversion from billiards. The name is perhaps a reference (with regard to the rawness of play by a fellow officer) to British slang snooker "newly joined cadet" (1872). Tradition ascribes the coinage to Col. Sir Neville Chamberlain (not the later prime minister of the same name), at the time subaltern in the Devonshire Regiment in Jubbulpore.

Example Sentences forsnooker

But Snooker, as usual, tried to sneak away, his tail between his legs.

A year ago young Snooker had done a month for one of those very trout.

But Snooker spent all his spare time biting and snuffling, and he stank abominably.

In some rooms it is considered fair and part of the game to snooker an opponent deliberately; in others the practice is condemned.

A four-handed game of snooker is in as rapid progress as is reasonably possible.

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