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BAR BILLIARDS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does bar billiards mean? 

BAR BILLIARDS (noun)
  The noun BAR BILLIARDS has 1 sense:

1. a table game in which short cues are used to knock balls into holes that are guarded by wooden pegs; penalties are incurred if the pegs are knocked overplay

  Familiarity information: BAR BILLIARDS used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


BAR BILLIARDS (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A table game in which short cues are used to knock balls into holes that are guarded by wooden pegs; penalties are incurred if the pegs are knocked over

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

bagatelle; bar billiards

Hypernyms ("bar billiards" is a kind of...):

table game (a game that is played on a table)

Domain region:

Britain; Great Britain; U.K.; UK; United Kingdom; United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (a monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles; divided into England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland; 'Great Britain' is often used loosely to refer to the United Kingdom)


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