Definition of Stall

This is to watch a match with such intensity that there is worry, usually because of a wager on the game.

The material which covers the bed and cushions of a pool table. The cloth used to cover a pool table is very special and can come in a variety of grades. Along with the general quality of the table itself, the cloth play a very important role in how a particular table plays.

The International Pool Tour is a professional sports tour created in 2005 by Kevin Trudeau and hosted by Rebecca Grant. It aims to elevate pool (pocket billiards) to the level of other modern sports.

This is when you win a game of one pocket on your opponents break.

Describes a ball rolling along a rail in contact or near contact with it, or which makes multiple successive contacts with the rail.

This describes when a player is trapped behind a ball. (n.) - This is also the amount of money a player is down after betting.

When two objects balls are lined up so that you aim to pocket the nearest object ball, the second object ball will pocket. "That was an easy combination shot, the six ball was wired to the four ball". Also wired combination/combo, wired kiss.

This is to execute a shot where the cue ball is controlled perfectly and stops where you want it to exactly.

"Pocket billiards," or a game in which balls are shot into pockets.

This is a player that will regularly loose money to a particular player that is obviously a better player.

This is a timing device for monitoring and restricting shot times for a player.

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.

This is the portion of the butt of your cue just below the handle or wrap. This portion of the cue is made separately and often times cored out to ensure the proper weight balance within the full length of the cue. This portion of the cue is usually made with exotic wood that matches the wood in the forearm or in the points on the forearm. This section is used to highlight the design of the forearm, sometimes a re-creation, a reverse, or a rendition of the same pattern on a smaller scale.

In the carom games, any shot where the end result is all the balls near each other; ideally, in position for the start of a nurse on the next stroke.

This describes a shot where you bank the object ball off of a rail and then sink it in a corner pocket.

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

The angle at which a ball approaches a rail, as measured from the perpendicular to the rail.

When a player is playing flawlessly, just "cannot miss" and the game seems effortless.

The inside walls of a pocket billiards table's pockets.

This is a tool used to keep your cue tip from mushrooming. This small tool slides over the tip and turns to refine the sides, keeping your tip shaped the way it should be.

This is playing to a higher winning score than eight in the game of one pocket.

Also double-century break. In English billiards, a break of 200-299 points (i.e. double a century). Larger multi-centuries are regularly achieved. Rare in amateur play, triple centuries are routine, and quadruples not uncommon at World Professional Billiards Championships; 2007 winner Mike Russell shot four triples in the final round alone, while of sixteen competitors, three shot quadruple centuries (one once, one twice, and Russell three times). Quintuple centuries are rare even at the professional level, with only the 494 shot by nine-time World Champion Russell (who has more such titles than any other player in history as of 2007) coming close in that event. World Champion Geet Sethi holds the world record, at a duodectuple century (and then some) of 1276 consecutive points."

This is your pocket for sinking balls in a one pocket game.

A bank shot that follows a Z shaped pattern as it bounces off of two rails.