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Snooker vs Snooked - What's the difference?

snooker | snooked |

As verbs the difference between snooker and snooked

is that snooker is to play snooker while snooked is past tense of snook.

As a noun snooker

is a cue sport, popular in the UK and other Commonwealth of Nations countries.

snooker

English

Noun

(wikipedia snooker) (en noun)
  • A cue sport, popular in the UK and other Commonwealth of Nations countries.
  • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To play snooker.
  • To fool or bamboozle.
  • (snooker, pool) To place the cue ball in such a position that the opponent cannot directly hit the required ball with it; (by extension ) To put someone in a difficult situation.
  • To become or cause to become inebriated.
  • See also

    * billiards * pool ----

    snooked

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (snook)

  • snook

    English

    (wikipedia snook)

    Alternative forms

    * snoek

    Etymology 1

    (etyl)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A freshwater and marine fish of the family Centropomidae in the order Perciformes, especially
  • # , the common snook.
  • Any of various other fishes. See (pedialite).
  • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To fish for snook.
  • Derived terms
    * bay snook * common snook

    Etymology 2

    From the 19th century. origin, possibly related to (snoot) or (snout). (rfphoto)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (UK, pejorative, as a gesture) A disrespectful gesture, performed by placing the tip of a thumb on one's nose with the fingers spread, and typically while wiggling the fingers back and forth.
  • Derived terms
    * cock a snook * cocking of a snook * snook-cocker * snook-cocking

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete) To sniff out.
  • (obsolete) To lurk; to lie in ambush.
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