snooker
verb1
To play the game of snooker.
2
To fool or bamboozle.
- But to critics like the New York Times's Paul Krugman, Ryan was an obvious con man weaponizing the deficit to hamstring Obama's presidency, weaken the recovery, and snooker Beltway centrists eager to champion a reasonable-seeming Republican.2018, Ezra Klein, “Paul Ryan's Long Con”, in Vox.com:
- Los Angeles would still be a piddling little town in a desert if it weren’t for Sierra snowmelt and city officials crafty enough to snooker eastern California farmers out of their water rights.2023 August 6, Daniel Duane, “It’s August. Californians Are Still Skiing. Don’t Ask.”, in The New York Times:
3
Ball games, Games, Hobbies, Lifestyle, Pool, Snooker, Sports Ambitransitive To place the cue ball in such a position that (the opponent) cannot directly hit the required ball with it.
4
Broadly To put (someone) in a difficult situation.
- Sam McDougall, Operations Director for NR's East Coast Route, explains: "Until recently, if anything went wrong in the two-track section between Stoke and Doncaster, we were snookered.2023 July 12, Ben Jones, “'Thunderbirds' are go on the ECML...”, in RAIL, number 987, page 34:
5
To cause to become inebriated.