billiards

noun

/ˈbɪliədz/

/ˈbɪljərdz/

[uncountable]

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a game for two people played with cues (= long sticks) and three balls on a long table covered with green cloth. Players try to hit the balls against each other and into pockets at the edge of the table.
- a game of billiards
compare pool, snookerTopics Sports: other sportsc2, Games and toysc2
Word Originlate 16th cent.: from French billard, denoting both the game and the cue, diminutive of bille ‘tree trunk’, from medieval Latin billa, billus ‘branch, trunk’, probably of Celtic origin.

单词	billiards
释义	billiards noun /ˈbɪliədz/ /ˈbɪljərdz/ [uncountable] jump to other results a game for two people played with cues (= long sticks) and three balls on a long table covered with green cloth. Players try to hit the balls against each other and into pockets at the edge of the table. a game of billiards compare pool, snookerTopics Sports: other sportsc2, Games and toysc2 Word Originlate 16th cent.: from French billard, denoting both the game and the cue, diminutive of bille ‘tree trunk’, from medieval Latin billa, billus ‘branch, trunk’, probably of Celtic origin.
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