pocket billiardsn.
/ˌpɒkɪt ˈbɪljədz/, U.S. /ˌpɑkət ˈbɪljərdz/ 1. North American. Any of various types of pool (pool n.3 2).
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > billiards, pool, or snooker > [noun] > varieties of game
carambole1775
portobello1777
carambole game1807
go-back game1839
pyramid1850
pin pool1864
shell-out1866
pocket billiards1871
pocket pool1877
snooker('s) pool1889
puff billiards1897
kelly1898
slosh1938
bar billiards1966
1871 U.S. Patent 117,995 To increase the elasticity of the cushion and provide an elastic end for pocket-billiards.
1910 N.Y. Times 17 Mar. 10/3 She will meet women competitors both morning and afternoon, in pocket billiards.
1917 Billiards Mag. Dec. 13/1 Greenleaf..began to play pocket billiards 6 years ago... His ambition is to win the pocket billiard championship.
1993 Times 20 Sept. 19/5 It was Mosconi's constant preoccupation with the reputation of the game—which he always called pocket billiards and would never permit himself to utter the word ‘pool’.
2004 Palm Beach (Florida) Post (Nexis) 29 Sept. 3 (caption) Curtis Krauel..watches the roll of the cue ball after he places his shot during a game of pocket billiards with Joseph Casale.
2. British slang (originally School slang). The activity by a male of manipulating (or appearing to manipulate) the genitals through a trouser pocket. Frequently to play pocket billiards.
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the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual activity > masturbation > [noun]
onanism1600
masturbation1603
mastupration1616
self-pollution1619
self-abuse1718
manustupration1728
self-stimulation1860
jerking1889
friggingc1890
autoeroticism1898
autoerotism1898
automanipulation1920
pocket billiards1940
wanking1944
the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual activity > masturbation > masturbate [verb (intransitive)]
frig1598
mastuprate1623
masturbate1839
to jerk off1865
rub1902
to rub up1902
wank1905
to jack off1916
to pull one's (or the) pud (also pudding, wire, etc.)1927
to toss off1927
to play pocket billiards1940
to beat one's meat1948
to wank off1951
whack1969
to choke the chicken1975
fap2001
the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual activity > other types of sexual activity or intercourse > engage in other types of sexual activity or intercourse [verb (intransitive)] > stimulate genitals
to play pocket billiards1971
1940 S. Spender Backward Son ii. 94 He paused, feeling in his trouser pockets with his hands, with a familiar gesture of the class room which the boys knew as ‘pocket billiards’.
1971 ‘A. Burgess’ MF ii. 31 Saint Face, as if wishing to play pocket-billiards with my balls, thrust his hands in from the rear.
1990 Independent on Sunday 1 July (Mag.) 8/1 Schoolboys call it playing pocket billiards. He puts his hand down inside his tracksuit and sort of rearranges things..or sometimes doesn't rearrange them so much as just hangs on for dear life.
2002 Daily Mail (Nexis) 5 Nov. 14 He..just sat at the back of the Chamber, left hand in trouser pocket, busy jangling keys or something. Among the low company I keep in London, we'd say he was playing pocket billiards.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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