POCKET BILLIARDS Synonyms

• an excavation that is (usually) filled with water

• a small lake

• an organization of people or resources that can be shared

• an association of companies for some definite purpose

• any communal combination of funds

• a small body of standing water (rainwater) or other liquid

• the combined stakes of the betters

• something resembling a pool of liquid

• any of various games played on a pool table having 6 pockets

• combine into a common fund

• join or form a pool of people

• any of several games played on rectangular cloth-covered table (with cushioned edges) in which long tapering cue sticks are used to propel ivory (or composition) balls

• a glancing rebound

• a shot in billiards in which the cue ball contacts one object ball and then the other

• rebound after hitting

• make a carom

• a massive monument with a square base and four triangular sides; begun by Cheops around 2700 BC as royal tombs in ancient Egypt

• a polyhedron having a polygonal base and triangular sides with a common vertex

• (stock market) a series of transactions in which the speculator increases his holdings by using the rising market value of those holdings as margin for further purchases

• enlarge one's holdings on an exchange on a continued rise by using paper profits as margin to buy additional amounts

• use or deal in (as of stock or commercial transaction) in a pyramid deal

• arrange or build up as if on the base of a pyramid

• increase rapidly and progressively step by step on a broad base

• a form of pool played with 15 red balls and six balls of other colors and a cue ball

• fool or dupe

• leave one's opponent unable to take a direct shot