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snooker
verb- to trick someone; to place someone in an impossible position UK, 1915
From the game played with balls on a billiard table. - Delvin, knowing he’s been snookered, too, gives Cooley half a wink, thanks everybody and turns the chair and the job over to me to another round of spontaneous applause. — Robert Campbell, In a Pig’s Eye, p. 8, 1991
- “[S]oon as we turn our backs he goes and jumps out a window. I’m telling you, you can’t trust nobody anymore.” “He snookered us.” — Janet Evanovich, Seven Up, p. 12, 2001
- to conceal something or someone AUSTRALIA, 1950
- Billy’s plan was to “stay snookered” at my place until we could organise a car and some bugs bunny. — Kathy Lette, Girls’ Night Out, p. 169, 1987
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