Definition of Hustle

This is to take all the money from a player or to have lost all of your own money.

Random method for pairing of opponents when setting up a bracket system for a tournament.

In snooker and British pool, the successful potting of all object balls-on in a single frame.

When complete focus allows you to execute quality billiards play with simplicity and seeming ease.

This is a bank in one pocket pool that is sitting at an angle that makes it unsafe to play.

Same as side rail.

In snooker, the abandonment of a frame upon agreement between the players, so that the balls can be set up again and the frame restarted with no change to the score since the last completed frame. This is the result of situations, such as trading of containing safeties, where there is no foreseeable change to the pattern of shots being played, so the frame could go on indefinitely.
In pool, placing of the object balls back in the rack, after a foul break.

The forward rotation of the cue ball that results from a follow shot. Also known as top spin or top, follow is applied to the cue ball by hitting it above its equator, causing it to spin more rapidly in the direction of travel than it would simply by rolling on the cloth from a center-ball hit. Follow speeds the cue ball up, and widens both the carom angle after contact with an object ball, and angle of reflection off a cushion.

Also solid, solid ones, solid balls. The non-striped ball suit (group) of a fifteen ball set that are numbered 1 through 7 and have a solid color scheme (i.e., not including the 8 ball). As in, "I'm solid", or "you've got the solids". Compare low, small, little, reds, spots, dots, unders; contrast stripes.

Making all of the required shots in a game (rack) without the opponent ever getting to the table or getting back to the table.

When a successful non penalized break is achieved which gives the object balls a broad spread on the table.

This is an imaginary line that separates the halves of the table by crossing at the middle of the side of pockets.

Same as gapper

Three equally spaced diamonds are normally between each pocket on a pool table. On a carom table, the pockets themselves are replaced by additional diamonds. Diamonds get their name from the shape of the markings traditionally used; though many today are round, square, etc., these rail markings are still referred to as "diamonds".

A two-piece cue constructed to resemble a house cue, with a near-invisible wood-to-wood joint. The subterfuge often enables a hustler to temporarily fool unsuspecting fish into thinking that he or she is an unskilled banger with no regard for finesse or equipment quality. Many league players also use cheap but solid sneaky petes as their break cues.

Adjectival expression for a player's deadly game; "watch out, he plays jam up.

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.

The upper portion of a cue which slides on a player's bridge hand and upon which the tip of the cue is mounted at its terminus. It also applies to the main, unsegmented body of a mechanical bridge.

This is when, after playing an opponent for a while you both break even as far as money exchange, and the only person to get paid is the house for use of their table.

This is a very easy and safe shot to execute in the game of one pocket.

To play a shot with the stroke and speed that makes it easiest to pocket the object ball, even at the expense of sacrificing position.

A game of pool played on a table shaped like a rectangle, with or without pockets.

This is the running score of a player during his inning of play. The sum of the continuously scored points, or where the player stands in the run on the table.

When a player is on the receiving end of a devastating safety where it is very difficult or near impossible to make a legal hit on an object ball.