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   The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition.  2000.
 
snooker
 
SYLLABICATION:snook·er
PRONUNCIATION:  snkr
NOUN: Pocket billiards played with 15 red balls and 6 balls of other colors.
TRANSITIVE VERB:Inflected forms: snook·ered, snook·er·ing, snook·ers
1. Slang a. To lead (another) into a situation in which all possible choices are undesirable; trap. b. To fool; dupe: “Snookered by a lot of malarkey about drilling costs, a Texas jury … added $3 billion of punitive damages” (New Republic). 2. To leave one's opponent in the game of snooker unable to take a direct shot without striking a ball out of the required order.
ETYMOLOGY:Origin unknown.
 
 
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