Snookerとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: sno͞oʹkə(r), IPA: /ˈsnuːkə(ɹ)/
• (General American) enPR: sno͝oʹkər, IPA: /ˈsnʊkɚ/
• 韻: -uːkə(ɹ), -ʊkə(ɹ)

名詞

snooker (countable and uncountable, plural snookers)

1. A cue sport, popular in the UK and other Commonwealth of Nations countries.
2. (snooker, pool) 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.

派生語

動詞

snooker (third-person singular simple present snookers, present participle snookering, simple past and past participle snookered)

1. (intransitive) To play the game of snooker. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
2. (transitive) To fool or bamboozle.
   • 2018, Ezra Klein, “Paul Ryan's Long Con”, in Vox.com‎:

     But to critics like the New York Times's Paul Krugman, Ryan was an obvious con man weaponizing the deficit to hamstring Obama's presidency, weaken the recovery, and snooker Beltway centrists eager to champion a reasonable-seeming Republican.

   • 2023 August 6, Daniel Duane, “It’s August. Californians Are Still Skiing. Don’t Ask.”, in The New York Times‎:

     Los Angeles would still be a piddling little town in a desert if it weren’t for Sierra snowmelt and city officials crafty enough to snooker eastern California farmers out of their water rights.

3. (transitive, snooker, pool) To place the cue ball in such a position that (the opponent) cannot directly hit the required ball with it.
4. (transitive, by extension) To put (someone) in a difficult situation.
   • 2023 July 12, Ben Jones, “'Thunderbirds' are go on the ECML...”, in RAIL, number 987, page 34:

     Sam McDougall, Operations Director for NR's East Coast Route, explains: "Until recently, if anything went wrong in the two-track section between Stoke and Doncaster, we were snookered.

5. (transitive) To cause to become inebriated. (Can we add an example for this sense?)

参考

• billiards
• pool