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- (uncountable) A pocket billiards (pool) game played with sixteen balls (a cue ball and fifteen object balls) on a pool table with six pockets.
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Meaning
- [Noun]
- (uncountable) A pocket billiards (pool) game played with sixteen balls (a cue ball and fifteen object balls) on a pool table with six pockets.
- (countable) The billiard ball, almost always black, bearing the number eight.
- (countable, slang) A portion of cocaine or methamphetamine weighing 1⁄8 of an ounce, or 3.5 grams.
- (countable, slang, ethnic slur) A black person.
- (countable, aviation, slang) A spherical attitude indicator.
- (countable, broadcasting) A kind of spherical microphone.
- [Verb]
- (pool, transitive) To outplay (an opponent) by potting all one's color balls and then the black (or eight-ball) without the opponent potting a single one.
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