Definition of Reverse english

This is a table that offers poor conditions for play; it is either dirty, wet, or overall poor quality.

This term is much like rain table and refers to a table is playing soggy due to humid conditions.

A set practice routine.
In British terminology, a bank shot.

This is the act of disturbing you opponents good looking balls in the hope that they might move over and help you out in the game of one pocket.

The United States Snooker Association (USSA) is the internationally recognized governing body of the sport of snooker in the United States. Founded in 1991 by the British-born Michael Collins, the USSA is a member of the International Billiards and Snooker Federation (IBSF), the world governing body of non-professional English billiards and snooker, and is affiliated with the American CueSports Alliance (ACS).

This is the way a ball rolls when impeded by something on the table or a blemish in the cloth, often times regular players will remember certain rolls and play to them.

When the contact between the cue ball and object ball is dead center.

The effect of shooting regulation-weight object balls with an old-fashioned over-weight bar table cue ball, such that the cue ball moves forward to occupy (sometimes only temporarily), or go beyond, the original position of the object ball, even on a draw or stop shot, because the mass of the cue ball exceeds that of the object ball. Players who understand smash-through well can use it intentionally for position play, such as to nudge other object balls nearby the target ball. Smash-through also makes it dangerous in bar pool (when equipped with such a cue ball) to pocket straight-on ducks with a stop shot instead of by cheating the pocket because of the likelihood of scratching the cue ball.

This refers to the distance of deflection that the ball comes off of the cue stick after a hit is applied with side spin on it.

This is the state after which the person returning the break has had the opportunity to catch and even the field after the breakers advantage.

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.

This is a shot that attempts to move a number of balls onto your side of the table in a kind of herding attempt.

Side spin on a cue ball on the opposite side of the direction of the cut angle to be played (right-hand english when cutting an object ball to the left, and vice versa). In addition to affecting cue ball position, outside english can be used to decrease throw.

This is a bank shot that goes off of the head rail and then straight to the pocket at the other end of the table.

(Jack and Jill) Mixed doubles match (each team has one male and one female).

A shot where the shooter was trying to make the shot but misses. However, the result of the missed shot ends up being a very good defensive play.

To indicate where something is to be done. To "mark the pocket" means to indicate which pocket you intend to sink an object ball.

This describes balls that are not able to be made in a pocket, either because they are high up on the table, in a different pocket, or in a cluster that makes the shot difficult. This condition of being out of play obviously exists on different difficulty levels.

Hitting the object ball with not enough of a cut angle; hitting the object ball too full or "fat". It is a well-known maxim that overcutting is preferable to undercutting.

This word is used as slang to define a player as amateur or recreational.

The normal phenomenon where the object ball is pushed in a direction very slightly off the pure contact angle between the two balls. Caused by the friction imparted by the first ball sliding past or rotating against the other ball.

Also string off. Chiefly British; Obsolete: Same as string or lag.

The point in match play where both players (or teams) need only one more game (frame) victory to win the match or race.

Same as position. "She got good shape for the next shot". See also position play, leave.