Added 9 October 2026 snooker /ˈsnuːkə(ɹ)/ noun Categories: ActionsRare Words noun ! Definition from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA). Pronunciation from Wiktionary, via Kaikki.org. More about snooker at Wordnik → Where our words come from → A cue sport, popular in the UK and other Commonwealth of Nations countries. The situation where the cue ball is in such a position that the player cannot directly hit a legal ball with it. She put her opponent in a snooker. verb To play the game of snooker. (Can we add an example for this sense?) To fool or bamboozle. To place the cue ball in such a position that (the opponent) cannot directly hit the required ball with it. Related Words: billiardbilliardswhitecuesportcolorcueballescape Back to today's word