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For advanced players it is important to understand how the use of english can cause the cue ball to veer off its aiming line (an effect called deflection or "squirt"). An above-center hit on the cue ball is more precisely referred to as "follow" ("top" in the UK), while a below-center hit is "draw", "bottom", or "back-spin". Any time the cue ...
The following is a glossary of traditional English-language terms used in the three overarching cue sports disciplines: carom billiards referring to the various carom games played on a billiard table without pockets; pool, which denotes a host of games played on a table with six pockets; and snooker, played on a large pocket table, and which has a sport culture unto itself distinct from pool.
Winning hazards: potting the red ball (3 points); potting the other cue ball (2 points). Losing hazards (or "in-offs"): potting one's cue ball by cannoning off another ball (3 points if the red ball was hit first; 2 points if the other cue ball was hit first, or if the red and other cue ball were "split", i.e., hit simultaneously).
The cue ball contacts an object ball with draw (backspin) and pockets another. Follow : A cue ball is hit with follow (topspin) and goes forth and hits in an object ball. Bank/Kick : Bank, meaning to hit object ball(s) into cushion(s), and kicks meaning to hit cue ball into "x" number of cushions first and then to object ball(s).
Historically, the second cue ball was white with red or black spots to differentiate it; both types of ball sets are permitted in tournament play. [8] The balls are significantly larger and heavier than their pool or snooker counterparts, with a diameter of 61 to 61.5 millimetres (2.40 to 2.42 in), and a weight ranging between 205 and 220 grams ...
The canonical name format for the game [in English] for Wikipedia purposes is "nine-ball". Using nine-ball as the canonical example, the correct names of the game, outside the Wikipedia context, are (and grammatically must be) "nine-ball" or "9-ball", but we eschew "9-ball" on Wikipedia as a name of the game to avoid confusion between the game and the numbered ball.
To send the cue ball into a first object ball, and have something desirable (pot or position) happen to the first object ball by having it careen into a second object ball, is a kiss shot (I don't know if there's a chiefly-British alternative name for that); basically a plant/combo except the first object ball is the one that the shooter is ...
Cutthroat or cut-throat, also sometimes referred to as three-man-screw, is a typically three-player or team pocket billiards game, played on a pool table, with a full standard set of pool balls (15 numbered object ball s and a cue ball); the game cannot be played with three or more players with an unnumbered reds-and-yellows ball set, as used ...