| 单词 | straight pool |
| 释义 | > as lemmasstraight pool 2. Any of various types of billiards for two or more players; spec. †(a) a game in which each player uses a cue ball of a distinctive colour to pocket the balls of the other player(s) in a certain order, the winner taking all the stakes submitted at the start of the contest (obsolete); (b) U.S. a game played with balls numbered 1 to 15, the number of each ball pocketed being added to a player's score (also known as straight pool); (c) originally U.S. a game using two sets of seven coloured or patterned balls, together with one black ball and one white cue ball, the aim being to pocket all of one's own balls followed by the black; = eight ball n. a; (d) originally and chiefly U.S. a game using a white cue ball and coloured balls numbered 1 to 9, the object being to pocket the black nine ball by a combination shot at any point in the game, or directly after having pocketed the other balls in numerical order (also known as nine-ball). to shoot pool: see shoot v. 26b. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > billiards, pool, or snooker > [noun] billiards1591 pool1797 snooker1889 pill1896 nine-ball1915 1797 Alexandria (Virginia) Advertiser 21 Oct. 4/4 (advt.) Any gentlemen wishing to play the Game of Pool, can be accommodated with Balls for the purpose. 1819 Adams Centinel (Gettysburg, Pa.) 1 Dec. A party was made up for pool, in which game several played for money, while the lookers on smoked segars and drank brandy and water. 1821 Hoyle's Games Improved 276 Pool..is played by an indefinite number of persons, who each have their several balls. 1851 E. Fitzgerald Euphranor 7 He was waiting till some men had finished a pool of billiards up-stairs. 1873 J. Bennett & ‘Cavendish’ Billiards 5 ‘French billiards’ was essentially single pool. 1934 J. T. Farrell Young Manhood Studs Lonigan x. 163 We'll play fifty straight pool, and I'll spot you ten. 1992 N.Y. Times Mag. 23 Feb. 30/1 A few things hinted that the pool here is not the kind Paul Newman played against Jackie Gleason... Nine-ball (rather than straight pool) was one. 2003 Snooker Scene July 28/1 English 8-ball pool, or Billiard Anglais as it is known in France, if [sic] often thought of as less international than the 9-ball game. < as lemmas |
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