billiards
noun/ˈbɪliədz/
/ˈbɪljərdz/
[uncountable]- 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
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.Want to learn more?
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