snooker

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A cue sport, popular in the UK and other Commonwealth of Nations countries.
2. isim The situation where the cue ball is in such a position that the player cannot directly hit a legal ball with it.

   “She put her opponent in a snooker.”

3. fiil To play the game of snooker.
4. fiil To fool or bamboozle.

   “But to critics like the New York Times's Paul Krugman, Ryan was an obvious con man weaponizing the deficit to hamstring Obama's presidency, weaken the recovery, and snooker Beltway centrists eager to champion a reasonable-seeming Republican.”

5. fiil To place the cue ball in such a position that (the opponent) cannot directly hit the required ball with it.
6. fiil To put (someone) in a difficult situation.

   “Sam McDougall, Operations Director for NR's East Coast Route, explains: "Until recently, if anything went wrong in the two-track section between Stoke and Doncaster, we were snookered.”

7. fiil To cause to become inebriated.