billiards

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A game played on a cloth-covered table in which players use long sticks to hit balls into one another or into pockets.

   They spent the evening playing billiards at the club.

Common collocations

• pocket billiards Noun + noun

From French billard, originally referring to the wooden cue stick, diminutive of Old French bille (“log, tree trunk”), from Vulgar Latin *bilia, probably of Gaulish origin (compare Old Irish bile (“large tree, tree trunk”)), from Proto-Celtic *belyos (“tree”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰolh₃yos (“leaf”), from *bʰleh₃- (“blossom, flower”).

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