Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A billiard-table with pockets, usually 6 in number, one in the middle of each side and one at each corner.
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Examples
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Ya don't beg, ya don't petition, ya don't say 'gee, we've got rights too,' 'cause he don't give a crap about yer rights, ya don't appeal to his sense of decency 'cause he ain't got one -- ya out-shoot him at the freakin 'pool-table!
John Eskow: Time Has Come Today: Or, What Would Abbie Do? 2008
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From the first big televised trial, the New Bedford, Mass., pool-table rape, to William Kennedy Smith and Lyle and Erik Menendez, the smell of the spectacle is the same.
The O.J. Legacy 2008
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It occurred to him that Lottie could aid him, for she had doubtless done her share of pool-table first aid and backroom midwifery in a checkered career that spanned the Natchez riverboats and San Francisco's Barbary Coast.
Ishmael Barbara Hambly 2000
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It occurred to him that Lottie could aid him, for she had doubtless done her share of pool-table first aid and backroom midwifery in a checkered career that spanned the Natchez riverboats and San Francisco's Barbary Coast.
Ishmael Barbara Hambly 2000
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You see, what I'd heard under Sale's pool-table had been the strains of salvation, and I'll tell you why.
Flashman And The Mountain Of Light Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1990
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You see, what I'd heard under Sale's pool-table had been the strains of salvation, and I'll tell you why.
Flashman and the Mountain of Light Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1990
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In one end were a dozen "rooms," separated by partitions reaching half way to the sheet-iron roof, and in the other a single combination of grocery and general store, saloon and pool-table, assorted filth and the other attributes of outposts of civilization.
Tramping Through Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras — Being the Random Notes of an Incurable Vagabond Harry Alverson Franck 1921
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Whereupon a dozen strong men, each shouldering a cue, formed in line and marched around the pool-table, pausing now and then to slap one another on the back and utter some horrible imprecation against Caleb Coppins.
Knowledge is Power 1916
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Down at the pool-table, one night, Mr. Calkins paused over his shot and remarked to the smoke-embalmed gathering:
Knowledge is Power 1916
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On the right-hand side as you go inside them pool-table doors is another mahogany partition, and back of that is the cutting-room already.
Potash & Perlmutter Their Copartnership Ventures and Adventures Montague Glass 1905
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