noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a ping-pong/billiard/snooker etc ball
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He was bouncing around like a ping-pong ball.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
hall
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Fat Vince doubles as the popular and permissive assistant-manager of a snooker hall in Victoria.
room
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On the lower ground floor you pass through the snooker room , the ballroom and a store room.
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The table in the snooker room is waterlogged, its baize stained and its wooden sides cracked.
table
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She slashed wildly at the ball with the edge of the bat, and the ball bounced under the snooker table .
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Nowadays, prisons are like leisure complexes, with snooker tables and televisions.
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A small snooker table requires to be re-covered.
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She hacked at the ball, which bounced along the snooker table and rolled into a pocket.
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His desk was roughly the size of a championship snooker table .
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The snooker table stood, dark and forlorn, in the centre of the room.
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Park Methodist Day Centre, Middlesbrough, £500, towards the purchase of a snooker table .
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At twelve, I acquired a snooker table , and became cross-eyed as I perfected my strokes.
■ VERB
play
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He's forgotten how to play snooker .
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But Edwards had a love for sports, too, playing tennis, snooker , soccer.
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Some of them must be playing snooker three and four times a week in two or three different leagues.
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He played snooker one-handed, and swam.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
snooker/billiard/ping-pong etc table
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And time is measured out by the di-dock, di-dock of a Ping-pong table .
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By the production line stand basketball nets and ping-pong tables for use during breaks.
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Gretel, looking half awake, was standing on the other side of the Ping-Pong table .
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In front of the platform stood a pair of billiard tables , as shown overleaf.
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Leaning against the Ping-Pong table , he picked up the stethoscope and felt its peculiar rubbery tubes.
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She slashed wildly at the ball with the edge of the bat, and the ball bounced under the snooker table .
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The room was bare except for a ping-pong table on folding trestle legs.
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The youth leader conveyed her thanks for the re-covering of the snooker table .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But Edwards had a love for sports, too, playing tennis, snooker , soccer.
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Cricket can be boring when Botham behaves, and snooker needs Alex Higgins even if it does not like to say so.
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Finally, I admit our shared deficiency: that of not being very good at snooker .
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He's forgotten how to play snooker .
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Hendry missed a red three times from a snooker in the sixth and lost by eight points as his rival levelled.
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Lorton spent the evening drinking bottled Guinness and watching snooker on the television.
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She slashed wildly at the ball with the edge of the bat, and the ball bounced under the snooker table.