Crossword-Solution: BILLIARDS 9 letters, 19 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 12

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Billiards n. A game played with ivory balls o a cloth-covered,
rectangular table, bounded by elastic cushions. The player seeks to
impel his ball with his cue so that it shall either strike (carom upon)
two other balls, or drive another ball into one of the pockets with
which the table sometimes is furnished.

We have 19 clues for the answer “BILLIARDS”

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game played on a table with balls and a cue 1 answer
cue sport 1 answer
Two-person table game 1 answer
Table game with many collisions 1 answer
THREE-cushion game 1 answer
BAGATELLE-like game 1 answer
Clinton's pastime? 1 answer
Game played by poets nursing sick setter 1 answer
Snooker's relative 1 answer
It starts with a break 1 answer
Its motto could be "stick it to 'em!" 1 answer
Game played in a hall 2 answers
BANKING game 4 answers
TABLE game 13 answers
POOL game 14 answers
INDOOR game 14 answers
ENGLISH game 15 answers
GAME, type of 58 answers
Pool? 67 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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greedy person
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Sentences with BILLIARDS (5)

Sometimes she played billiards with me after dinner, but she was usually too tired to play, and went early to bed.
What Is Man? And Other Stories Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) 1993
Three or four years ago he graduated at a small college in this neighborhood, where I am afraid he had given a good deal more attention to novels and billiards than to mathematics and Greek.
Roderick Hudson Henry James 2006
Seldom serious -- doing business just as 'twere a friendly game -- Cards or billiards -- nothing graver.
In the Days When the World Was Wide and Other Verses Henry Lawson 2008
All the life that Bestwood offered he enjoyed, from the sixpenny-hops down Church Street, to sports and billiards.
Sons and Lovers David Herbert Lawrence 1995
The Professor armed himself with a double-barreled shot gun, started out in search of his brother-in-law, found him playing billiards in a saloon, and blew his brains out.
Life On The Mississippi, Complete Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) 2006

Quotes with BILLIARDS (3)

Nature, it seems, is the popular namefor milliards and milliards and milliardsof particles playing their infinite gameof billiards and billiards and billiards.
Piet Hein
Speaking about time’s relentless passage, Powell’s narrator compares certain stages of experience to the game of Russian Billiards as once he used to play it with a long vanished girlfriend. A game in which, he says, “... at the termination of a given passage of time... the hidden gate goes down... and all scoring is doubled. This is perhaps an image of how we live. For reasons not always at the time explicable, there are specific occasions when events begin suddenly to take …
Anthony Powell A Dance to the Music of Time: 1st Movement
I was merely observing; I have no agenda." He looked at his hand, still touching hers. "Where did you get that ring?" She contracted her hand into a fist as she pulled it away from him. The amethyst in her ring glowed in the firelight. "It was a gift.""From whom?""That's none of your concern." He shrugged, though she knew betterthan to tell him who'd really given it to her - rather, she knew Chaol wouldn't want Dorian to know. "I'd like to know who's been giving rings to my C…
Sarah J. Maas Throne of Glass
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Appears in: Crossroads, Newsday, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY.

Used 9 times in crossword archives (1987–2024).