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Games Terms: D – Z
Billiards, part 2 includes the unique terms Feather Shot, Gather Shot, Gully Table, Jawed Ball, Pills and Stop Shot. This concludes the Billiards Games Glossary.
Billiards Games Terms: D
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Billiards, part 2 includes the unique terms Feather Shot, Gather Shot, Gully Table, Jawed Ball, Pills and Stop Shot. This concludes the Billiards Games Glossary.
Billiards Games Terms: D
- Dead Ball: term for cue ball that loses speed after contact with object ball. Also Kill Shot.
- Drop Pockets: term for ball returns that do not drop to end of pocket table.
- Double Elimination: term for player eliminated after 2 match losses.
- Double Hit: when the billiard cue tip strikes the cue ball twice on the same shot.
- Double Round
Robin: each participant in these tournaments
plays all their opponents twice.
- Feather Shot: jargon for cue ball that only brushes the object ball.
- Follow Shot: occurs when cue ball moves forward after touching object ball.
- Foot of Table: located at the end of a table where the balls are racked.
- Force Draw: shot aimed directly at the intended ball with vigor.
- Force: the power applied on the cue ball that affects the movement of the ball.
- Foul: a violation of the rules that results in a penalty.
- Foul Stroke: shot that results in a foul.
- Frame: term for a snooker game.
- Free Ball: occurs after a foul when a free ball is called. An opposing player that did not receive the foul may select a ball as on and receive the value.
- Frozen: refers to one ball touching another and/or cushion.
- Full Ball:
jargon for cue ball touching an intended ball at
a line split.
- Game Ball: last ball if completed concludes the game and names a winner.
- Gather Shot: term for strategic shot that when completed will allow for an easy score on the follow-up shot.
- Grip: manner in which the thicker end of the cue is held.
- Gully Table:
term for design that provides return of
pocketed balls to the end of the table.
- Handicapping: variations of scoring or rules given to less experienced players thus allowing an even game for all participants.
- Head of Table: position where the opening break of the game occurs.
- Inning: an undetermined amount of time that a player takes his/her turn.
- Hickey: refers to any foul committed by a player.
- Jaw: term for angled portion of the table just before the pocket.
- Jawed Ball: lingo for ball that does not drop but remains just outside the pocket.
- Joint: term for device in the middle of the cue in order to allow for separation into 2 sections.
- Jump Shot: shot that causes the cue or object ball to rise off the table.
- Jumped Ball:
jargon for hit ball that has 'jumped off' the
table or another ball.
- Kick Shot: refers to shot where the ball hits a cushion before touching the object ball.
- Kiss: refers to the contact between balls.
- Lag: refers to hit ball that contact 3 cushions before the object ball.
- Lag for Break: system where each participant shoots a returning ball and the closest to the head cushion is the starting player.
- Leave: position of the balls after a strike has been made by a player.
- Losing Hazard: occurs when the cue ball is pocketed after contact with an object ball.
- Lot: methods employed (drawing cards, peas or pills and a flip of a coin) to establish a starting player.
- Masse: action that changes the cue ball direction and pockets two balls on a single shot.
- Match: established by the lag start and conclusion within no set time limit.
- Miscue: flawed contact between cue tip and ball.
- Miss: occurs when a player fails to execute a proper shot.
- Natural: a shot in carom games that is easy and completed as expected.
- Object Ball: specific shot at a ball outside the cue ball.
- Open Break: rule that a player needs to strike 4 object balls towards the cushions.
- Opening Break
Shot: the first shot made by a player in a
game.
- Peas or Pills:
small plastic or wooden balls
numbered 1 through 15/16.
- Position: strategy to place the cue ball in order to be advantageous for the follow-up shot.
- Pot: when the object ball is pocketed.
- Power Draw Shot: term for excessive draw applied to cue ball.
- Push Shot: shot where the contact between the cue and the cue ball is longer than the time allowed in a legal shot.
- Pyramid:
the triangular positioning of the object balls in
a rack before a game starts.
- Race: term for established amount of games required to win a match or game sets.
- Rails: term for area of the table not covered by cloth. Due to the shape of the table, there are short and long rails.
- Red Ball: term for red object ball.
- Rest: jargon for mechanical bridge in snooker.
- Round Robin: each participant in these tournaments plays all their opponents once.
- Run: term for total of points/counts and consecutive scores by a player for 1 inning.
- Safety: strategic positioning by a skillful player to reduce the opportunities for an opponent to score.
- Scratch: occurs when a point is scored by an unplanned shot or when the cue ball is pocketed on a stroke.
- Seeding: occurs during tournaments when pairing and positioning is established.
- Set: term for established number of games required to win a match.
- Shot: term for contact between cue and ball concluding when all action on the table has stopped.
- Shot Clock: timer used to monitor game action.
- Short-rack: pocket games using less than 15 object balls.
- Single Elimination: term for a tournament where one loss will result in elimination.
- Snookered: following a safety shot, the next shot becomes an unfavorable position for the next player or opponent. This opponent is said 'to be snookered.'
- Split Double Elimination: occurs when 2 winning section players vie for the championship.
- Split Hit: jargon for a shot that cannot be established because the object ball is in a group of other balls.
- Spot: another term for a handicap wherein a player is given points based on level of play.
- Spot Ball: white ball that has markings.
- Spot Shot: a ball shot on foot spot.
- Spotting Balls: term for subbing specific balls according to the game rules.
- Stance: body position during shooting.
- Stop Shot: jargon for a shot at the intended ball where the cue ball stops abruptly.
- Striker: player who is about to make a shot.
- Successive
Fouls: term for pocket game fouls, one after
another.
- Table in Position: occurs when the expected ball does not move after a shot taken.
- Time Shot: term for sequence where a cue ball moves others, yet drives to score from one of the moved balls.
- Top Cushion: located at the foot of a snooker table.
- Triangle: term for piece of equipment used to position the ball to begin a game.
- Yellow Ball:
replaces the spot ball in international games.
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