Definition of Billiards

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Billiards

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.

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Billiards Quotations

Thus so wretched is man that he would weary even without any cause for weariness... and so frivolous is he that, though full of a thousand reasons for weariness, the least thing, such as playing billiards or hitting a ball, is sufficient enough to amuse him.
Blaise Pascal

It is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf.
H. L. Mencken

I learned to approach racing like a game of billiards. If you bash the ball too hard, you get nowhere. As you handle the cue properly, you drive with more finesse.
Juan Manuel Fangio

We're playing strip billiards.
Roger Vadim

Billiards Translations

billiards in Afrikaans is biljart
billiards in Danish is billard
billiards in Dutch is biljartspel, biljart
billiards in German is Billarde, Billards
billiards in Norwegian is biljard
billiards in Spanish is billar

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