pocket billiards

Questions about pocket billiards

What does pocket billiards mean?

pocket billiards means "any of various games played on a pool table having 6 pockets".

What is another word for pocket billiards?

Close synonyms include pool. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is pocket billiards a common word?

pocket billiards is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.