Billiard, Pool, Snooker Dictionary

Billiard Terms – A

A Game

Above

Across The String

Action

Adjust

Ahead Race

Aiming Line

Air Barrel

Angle of Incidence

Angle of Reflection

Angle Shot

Angled

Answer

Apex Ball

Apex of the Triangle

Arc

Around the World

Artistic Pool

Ahead Session

Anchor Nurse

Anchor Space

Angled Shot

Apex

Around the Table

Apex of the Rack

American Poolplayers Association

APA

American Cue Sports

ACS

American Cuemakers Association

ACA

Billiard Terms – B

Back

Back Cut

Back Scratch

Back Spin

Backing

Backspin

Bad Hit

Baize

Balance

Balance Point

Balkline

Ball Return System

Ball In Hand

Ball On

Banger

Bank Shot

Banked Ball

Banking Lane

Bar League Player

Bar Player

Bar Pool

Bar Rules

Bar Table

Barking

Barrels

Baulk

Baulk Color

Baulk Cushion

Baulk Line

BCA

Beating The Opponent To The Shot

Bed

Below

Big

Big Ball

Big Ball Position

Big Balls

Big Ones

Big Pocket

Bigs

Billiard Congress of America

Billiard Shot

Billiard Table

Billiards

Black Ball

Blind Draw

Blocker

Blood Test

Blue

Body English

Bottle

Bottom Spin

Brain Lock

Break

Break and Dish

Break and Run

Break Down a Cue

Break Serve

Breaking Violation

Bridge

Bridge Hand

Brown

Bumper

Burnish

Burst

Business

Bust

Butt

Butt Cap

By The Game

Backer

Bays

Balls On

Ball Return

Bank

Billiard

Blue Ball

Burnishing

Bridge Stick

Birilli

Birillo

Bottomspin

Bottom

Brown Ball

Break And Run Out

Ball And Pocket

Break Shot

Brazilian Nuts

Billiard Terms – C

Calcutta

Call

Call Shot

Called Ball

Called Pocket

Cannon

Carom

Carrying

Center Pocket

Center Spot

Center String

Centre String

Century

Chalk

Chasing Your Money

Cheat The Pocket

Cheating the Pocket

Check Side

Chicago

Chin Lock

Chinese Snooker

Choke

Choking

Chopped Up

Chuck Nurse

Cinching a Shot

Clean

Clean Bank

Cling

Closed Bridge

Cloth

Cluster

Cod Lock

Combination

Combination On

Come With A Shot

Contact Point

Corner Ball

Corner Hooked

Corners

Count

Cover

Cowboy Billiards

Cripple

Cross Corner

Cross Corner Bank

Cross Over Bank

Cross Side

Crutch

Cub

Cue

Cue Ball

Cue Shot

Cue Tip

Cueing

Cushion

Cut Up

Cutthroat

Cue Ball In Hand

Catch A Stroke

Cocked Hat Double

Color Ball

Colors

Colored Balls

Colours

Coloured Balls

Colour Balls

Catching

Catcher

Cross

Cross Rake

Crotch

Crucible Curse

Century Break

Clearance

Creep

Called Shot

Call It All

Call The Ball And Pocket

Call Everything

Call Pocket

Collision Induced English

Carambole

Carambola

Clean Shot

Centre Pocket

Centre Spot

Corner Pocket

Chase The Money

Combination Shot

Combo

Containing Safety

Collision Induced Throw

Cribbage

Cross Double

Cue Stick

Cuestick

Cue Action

Cue Ball Control

Cue Power

Cut Shot

Curve Shot

Billiard Terms – D

Dead

Dead Punch

Dead Stroke

Dead Ball Shot

Diamond System

Diamonds

Disrespectful

Dog It

Dot

Double Elimination

Double Hit

Double Kiss

Double Or Nothing

Double Up

Down Table

Draw

Draw Shot

Drawback

Drill

Drop Pockets

Duck

Dump

Draw Back

Duck Shot

Dog

Doing Business

Deliberate Foul

Deflection

Dead Combo

Dart Stroke

Dead Rail

Deadweight

Develop

Down Trou

Drag Shot

Doubles

Double Shimmed

Dish

Dots

Double The Rail

Double Cheeseburger

Double Hill

Double

Billiard Terms – E

Eight And Out

Eight Ball

End Rail

English

Escape

Even

Even Money

Even Up

Equalizer

Extension

Equator

Billiard Terms – F

Fan

Fantaisie Classique

Fantasy Billiards

Feather Shot

Feel

Ferrule

Firing Air Barrels

Fish

Five In The Corner

Five In The Side

Five Rails

Flat Draw

Flyer

Follow

Follow That Car

Follow Through

Foot Rail

Foot Spot

Foot String

Force Draw

Force Follow

Forearm

Forty One

Foul

Four In The Corner

Four In The Side

Four Rails

Fourteen One Continuous

Fram

Frame

Free Shot

Free Wheeling

Freeze Out

Front Runner

Frozen

Fundamentals

Felt

Flagrant Foul

Fault

Flat Back Pack

Frame Ball

Force Follow Shot

Follow Shot

Feather

Free Ball

Free Stroking

Full

Full Ball

Fat

Firewood

Fluke

Forced Shot

Freeze Up

Billiard Terms – G

Gather

Get In Gear

Get Out

Get Out of Jail Shot

Ghost

Ghost Ball

Give A Ball

Give Up Shot

Go

Go Off

Grade A Shot

Grade B Shot

Grade C Shot

Granny Stick

Grip

Gully

Gully Table

Gully System

Goose Neck

Goose Neck Rest

Gentlemens Call

Gentlemans Call

Game Ball

Gapper

Group

Game

Games On The Wire

Gather Shot

Golden Break

Green

Green Ball

Green Pocket

Billiard Terms – H

Half Ball Hit

Half Pool

Hand Bridge

Handcuff Artist

Handicap

Hanger

Hanging in the Pocket

Head Ball

Head Rail

Head Spot

Head String

Head Up

Heap

Heart

Helping English

High

High Karate

Hit

Hit And The Pick

Hold Up English

Hold Your Man

Holding the Pocket

Hole

Hook

House Cue

House Rules

House Wins

Hustler

Handicapping

Hugging the Rail

Hand Chalk

Highest Snooker Break

Horn

Hill Hill

Having The Cue Ball On A String

Half Century

Have The Nuts

Heads Up

Hustle

Hooked

Hook Rest

House Man

House Rack

Billiard Terms – I

In Play

In The Kitchen

In The Money

In The One Hole

Inlay

Inning

In Off

Inside English

Insurance Ball

Intentional Foul

In Hand

In Stroke

In Turn

Irish Linnen

In Jail

Billiard Terms – J

Jack Up

Jail

Jaw

Jawed

Jelly Roll

Joint

Jump Shot

Jump The Table

Jigger

Jawed Ball

Joint Protectors

Jump Cue

Jump Stick

Jump

Jenny

Jam Up

Billiard Terms – K

Kick

Kick Shot

Kiss

Kiss Back Bank

Kitchen

Kelly Bottle

Knuckle

Kill

Kill Shot

Kiss Shot

Key Ball

Key shot

Billiard Terms – L

Lag

Last

Leave

Lemon

Lengthen A Bank

Lie Of The Balls

Liking It

Lock

Locksmith

Long

Long Bank

Long Count

Long String

Losing Hazard

Lagging for the Break

Large Ball

Left

Low

Little

Look Back

Lemonade Stroke

Lock Artist

Long Rail

Long Double

Let Out

Locked Up

Billiard Terms – M

Make A Game

Masse Shot

Match

Match Up

Mechancal Bridge

Miscue

Money Ball

Move

Mover

Miss

Miss Rule

Maximum Break

Maximum

Middle Pocket

Masse

Mushroom

Money Table

Missable

Mark

Match Ball

Billiard Terms – N

Natural English

New Cloth Slide

Nine Ball

Nit

No Slop

Nut

Nuts

Nurse

Nurse Shot

Nip Draw

Natural

Nap

Nut Hunter

Billiard Terms – O

Object Ball

On

On A String

On The Hill

On The Lemon

On The Side

On The Snap

On The Wire

One Hole

One Pocket

One Rail

Open Break

Open Bridge

Opening Break Shot

OPM

Out Ball

Out Of Play

Out Of The Break

Outside English

Owe A Ball

Overs

Overcut

Overcutting

On Combo

On The Lemonade

Out

Orange Crush

Open Table

Open

Billiard Terms – P

Package

Parking The Cue Ball

Pay

Pea

Pearl

Pile

Pin Ball

Play The Cue Ball

Playing The Ghost

Playing The Score

Pocket Apiece

Pocket Billiards

Pocket Shelf

Pocket Speed

Pockets

Points

Poker Pool

Pool Table

Position

Position Play

Post Up

Power Shot

Power Through

Protect

Push

Pushout

Potter

Pitching

Pitcher

Pill Bottle

Pill

Peas

Pills

Pea Bottle

Pin

Pins

Professional Foul

Point

Plant

Power Thru

Prograde Follow

Prograde Topspin

Push Out

Push Shot

Professional Side Of The Pocket

Pro Side Of The Pocket

Professional Side

Pro Side

Pack

Paper Cut

Parkers Box

Pink Ball

Pique

Piquet

Pocket

Pool Shark

Potting Angle

Pot And Tuck

Pot

Putting Money In The Rack

Billiard Terms – Q

Billiard Terms – R

Race

Rack

Rail

Rail First

Rain Table

Rake

Rat In

Reading the Stack

Rearrange the Furniture

Removal Shot

Return

Reverse English

Ring Game

Road Agent

Rob

Roll

Rolling The Cheese

Rotation

Run

Run Out

Running English

Rattle In

Round Robin

Rock

Racking

Re-Rack

Rest

Run The Table

Runout

Running Side

Right

Rocking Cannon

Reds

Red Ball

Referee

Road Map

Ratting In

Re Spot

Respot

Re Spotted Black

Road Player

Road Warrior

Round

Ruckus

Round The Angles

Roll Up

Rubber Match

Riding The Nine

Billiard Terms – S

Safe

Safety

Sandbagging

Scratch

Screw Back

Sell Out

Session

Set

Shaft

Shake Bottle

Sharking

Shooting Air Barrels

Shooting System

Short

Short Bank

Short Count

Short Money

Short Stop

Shorten a Bank

Shortstop

Shot

Shot Clock

Side English

Side Pocket

Sideboards

Single Elimination

Skid

Slang

Slate

Sleep a Scratch

Slide

Slop

Sneaky Pete

Snooker

Snookered

Snooze You Lose

Speed

Splash

Split Shot

Spot

Spot Shot

Squirt

Stack

Staking

Stall

Stance

Stake

Stakehorse

Stick

Stick Your Rock

Stiff

Stop Shot

Straight Back

Straight Back Three Times

Straight Back Twice

Straight Back Underneath

Straight Pool

Straight Rail Billiards

Straight Up

String

Stroke

Strong to the Pocket

Stuck

Stun Shot

Sweat

Sweater

Sweating The Action

Scotch Doubles

Stakes

Six Ball

Seven Ball

Stripes

Striped Ones

Striped Balls

Spider

Spider Rest

Swan

Swan Rest

Shake Balls

Skittle

Skittles

Smash Through

Snookers Required

Screw

Slop Shot

Short Rail

Side

Side Spin

Sidespin

Siding

Safety Break

Semi Masse

Semi Masse Shot

Swerve Shot

Solids

Small

Sitter

Snake Shot

Stun

Stun Run Through

Snick

Swerve

Surgeon

Suit

Sandbag

Snap

Side Rail

Straight Back Bank

Speed Control

Same Speed

Shark

Sharp

Shape

Shit In

Shitting In

Sucker Shot

Seeding

Sellout

Sell The Farm

Session To Spare

Split

Split Hit

Sewer

Short Rack

Shot For Nothing

Straight Eight

Straight Eight Ball

Straight 8 Ball

Stay Shot

Sink

Skunked

Skunk

Squeeze Shot

Sliding Ball

Slip Stroke

Steering

Billiard Terms – T

Table

Table Roll

Take A Scratch

Take Out

Tanngent Line

Tapper

The Count

The Score

Thick Shot

Thousand Years

Threat

Three In The Corner

Three In The Side

Three Rails

Three Times Across

Throw

Ticky

Time Shot

Tip

Top Spin

Tournament Tough

Toy

Transferred English

Trap

Triangle

Trick Shot

Turn On The Heat

Twice

Twice Across In The Corner

Twice Across In The Side

Two In The Corner

Two In The Side

Two Rails

Two Way Shot

Ten Ball

Test Change

Two Shot Carry

Two Visits Rule

Two Shots Rule

Triple

Treble

Two Cushion Double

Touching Ball

Total Snooker

Total Clearance

Timing

The Black

The Blues

Tickie

Tight

Thread The Needle

Threading The Needle

Tied Up

Three Foul Rule

Tally Bottle

Tally Balls

Tittie

Tit

Tits

Titties

Tittie Hooked

Table Cloth

Taking Care of Whitey

The D

Tip Tapper

Taper

Topspin

Top Cushion

Thick

Table Scratch

Top Speed

Billiard Terms – U

Under the Break

Undercut

Up Table

Unintentional English

Unders

Undercutting

Umbrella Shot

Up To Speed

Billiard Terms – V

Velcro

Velcroing

Visit

Billiard Terms – W

Walk The Dog

Warrior

Way

Weak to the Pocket

Wedge

Weight

Wet Table

White Ball

Whitney

Wild

Wild Handicap

Wing Ball

Wing Shot

Wipe Its Feet

Wire

Wired

Wood

World Championships

Wrap

Wrapping

Wild 8

Whitey

Whitewash

World Snooker Championship

Billiard Terms – X

Billiard Terms – Y

Yellow Ball

Yellow Pocket

Yellows

Billiard Terms – Z

Z Bank

Billiard Terms – 0-9

0-2 Barbecue

14.1 Continuous

7 Ball

8 Ball

9 Ball

6 Ball

10 Ball

3 Foul Rule