a form of pool played with 15 red balls and six balls of other colors and a cue ball leave one's opponent unable to take a direct shot fool or dupe; "He was snookered by the con-man's smooth talk
If you are snookered by something, it is difficult or impossible for you to take action or do what you want to do. The President has been snookered on this issue. a game played especially in Britain on a special table covered in green cloth, in which two people use long sticks to hit coloured balls into holes at the sides and corners of the table billiards snooker table/room/hall. to make it impossible for someone to do what they want to do. Variation of English billiards. It is played with 15 red balls and 6 variously coloured balls. Snooker arose, probably in India, as a game for soldiers in the 1870s. Players try to pocket first the red and then the nonred balls, scoring one point for each red ball and the number value of the others. "Snooker" refers to the position of the cue ball when it cannot hit a required ball
Snooker is a game involving balls on a large table. The players use a long stick to hit a white ball, and score points by knocking coloured balls into the pockets at the sides of the table. a game of snooker They were playing snooker