Verb
I can't believe you managed to snooker me with that story about being an orphan.
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Noun
Facing the end of a wildly successful but turbulent career, the snooker legend found himself on the verge of a career-defining tournament to win the snooker World Championship for a seventh time.—Max Goldbart, Deadline, 23 Sep. 2024 The 2023 version of the event is sports heavy, with boxing, snooker, soccer, MMA, tennis and wrestling.—Dylan Manfre, Sportico.com, 3 Sep. 2019
Verb
Nike ‘had snookered me’ The culprits, Rentmeester and Dey claim, were the Nike art directors who reneged on a promise to credit him for his work.—Bypaolo Confino, Fortune, 17 June 2024 But Kuperman goes much further, arguing that the situation that led to NATO’s intervention wasn’t so bad—that Qaddafi’s threat to civilians was overblown and that the United States and Europe were snookered into thinking there was a humanitarian emergency.—Derek Chollet, Foreign Affairs, 20 Apr. 2015 See all Example Sentences for snooker
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