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billiard

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1. billiard - Noun

2. billiard - Adjective

Meaning

Of or pertaining to the game of billiards.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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Let's not pretend that mental phenomena can be mapped on to the characteristics of billiard balls. Gregory Bateson

Organisms are not billiard balls, propelled by simple and measurable external forces to predictable new positions on life's pool table. Sufficiently complex systems have greater richness. Organisms have a history that constrains their future in myriad, subtle ways. Stephen Jay Gould

The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green. Ernest Hemingway

Strictures, reproaches, and intemperate speeches from the Senator of Louisiana are really the wailings of an apostle of despair; he has lost control of himself, he is trying to play billiards with elliptical billiard balls and a spiral cue. Huey Long

Fortunately, it doesn't seem to have made a lot of difference to my audience that I'm as bald as a billiard ball! James Taylor

At 24, my head was as shiny as a cue ball on a billiard table. I naturally thought this meant curtains. Actually, I found it helped. When I was too young to play real character parts, they mistook me for older because of the bald noggin. I got juicy roles right from the start. Frank Cady

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