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pocket billiards
noun
A family of billiards games played on a specific class of billiards table, having six receptacles called pockets along the rails, in which balls are deposited as the main goal of play.
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The principal governing body of the American pocket billiards games, including the American form of snooker, is the Billiard Congress of America, which has been the ruling body since 1948.
Compare pocket billiards; pyramids.
female pocket billiards player in history.
Many varieties of pocket billiards, or pool, are possible.
There are numerous varieties of each game particularly of carom and pocket billiards.
(For some players, three-cushion is to pocket billiards as Dom Perignon is to Night Train).
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Pocket billiards--pool--is growing.
Pyramids, British pocket-billiards game in which 15 red balls are arranged in a pyramid formation to begin.
Eight ball, also called stripes and solids, popular American pocket-billiards game in which 15 balls numbered consecutively and a white cue ball are used.
He did however win the National Pocket Billiards Championship held in Chicago at Bensinger's Billiards in 1958.
Moore was inducted into the International Pocket Billiards Hall of Fame in 1982, the Billiard Congress of America's Hall of Fame in 1994, and the Albuquerque Sports Hall of Fame in 1998.
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