24 Random Essential Billiards Terms
This is a kind of cue made of only two pieces of wood, and joined together using an advanced adhesive along the points of the cue. This connection gives the cue a flawless look and a fluid feel when shooting.
Playing an opponent for money who has no chance of winning based on disparity of skill levels. The term robbed is also sometimes used humorously in exclamations when a shot that looks like it would work did not, as in "Oh! You got robbed on that one!"
Describes the propensity of a player losing small sums of money at gambling to suddenly sharply increase the stakes; often continuing to lose until broke. Compare Chasing one's money.
Any system for banking or kicking balls multiple rails which uses table diamonds as aiming references.
The ball meant to be struck and sunk in your called shot.
This is to win a game by pocketing enough balls before you opponent.
This refers to a shot that is not banked, does not hit a rail and goes into the pocket without contacting any other balls on the table.
This word is used as slang to define a player as amateur or recreational.
This term is much like rain table and refers to a table is playing soggy due to humid conditions.
Two or more object balls that are touching or are close together.
The break box is a zone in the "kitchen" of the head (British: bottom) of the table, from which the break shot must be taken with the cue ball,
Principally British: In snooker, if a player wins all of the required frames in a match without conceding a frame to their opponent - for example, if a player wins a best-of-nine-frame match with a score of 5-0 - this is referred to as a "whitewash". This term is based on a similar term used in the card game of "patience" in the UK. However, it is not used in the context of a 1-0 winning scoreline in a match consisting of a single frame.
A denigrating slang term for the mechanical bridge.
To move a ball (usually deliberately) from a safe position, e.g. close to the middle of a cushion or in a cluster, so that it becomes pottable.
This is a term used in slang to reference the bridge tool.
This is when you win a game of one pocket on your opponents break.
An imaginary line running horizontally across a billiards table from the second diamond (from the foot end of the table) on one long rail to the corresponding second diamond on the other long rail. The foot string intersects the long string at the foot spot. It is rarely drawn on the table.
Any standard pool cue used to shoot the majority of shots in a match.
This is a kind of cue made of four pieces of wood, the butt sleeve, the points, the handle, and the forearm, with each piece pinned, doweled, and glued together.
A type of nurse shot used in English billiards in which two coloured balls are positioned on either side of the mouth of a snooker table pocket but not touching and, thus placed, can be successively contacted and scored off over and over by the cue ball without moving them.
A tournament format in which a player must lose two matches in order to be eliminated.
This is another name for One Pocket pool.
This is your pocket for sinking balls in a one pocket game.
Three Ball is a pocket billiards folk game played with three standard pool object balls and a cue ball. The goal is to pocket the three object balls in as few shots as possible.
