Pool Terminology

[oldzilla]

The kitchen is one of my favorite terms -- has a great history behind it. Understanding the strings, the spot, and the box would be useful for any beginner.

Thanks, that's a great one that I would have forgotten about.

so your saying you never use the kitchen ?

 

[lizford]

Lots of great stuff here guys, thanks!

 

[oldzilla]

"playing off the wall"

aka using a house cue.

and not to be confused with hitting the cueball into the wall and back onto the table.

 

[lizford]

so your saying you never use the kitchen ?

Dude, it's been years I'm good at cooking when I do it, I just never wanna do it.

 

[oldzilla]

being jacked up to extreme is referred to as being "treetopped".

 

[oldzilla]

and there's the dreaded "air barrel" which nobody wants to except.

of course we know it is playing on guts with no money left to pay for losing.

 

[oldzilla]

then alot of places have one of these. "a trap table"

no it does not have a trap door that opens into a pit of hungry lions.

it is a table with tighter pockets than the standard.

 

[oldzilla]

"sweaters" not the kind you wear ! the kind that bet and watch.

 

[oldzilla]

"lets ring it up" and play a "ring game"

 

[oldzilla]

"cheese" not for your sandwich

 

[MahnaMahna]

"The tittie got me!"

(the corner of the cushion around the side pocket)

 

[oldzilla]

shortstop
tomato can

 

[Nostroke]

skid, sandbag, back cut, shims, high roll, horse, calcutta, move, Diamond system, on the wire.

 

[SKUNKBOY]

A 'tip' (or more) of english...Tom Rossman had a good definition/explaination of that.

Somebody mentioned shark...how about hustle.

Lots of good suggestions here...I hope you can get them all in your article.

L8R...Ken

 

[Junkyarddog]

Felt is made of wool

You learn something new every day.

 

[justadub]

3 pages in and not one mention of "getting shape".

And "drift".

(Except if I missed it! heh)

Looking forward to the article.

 

[WoodyJ]

"The tittie got me!"

(the corner of the cushion around the side pocket)

A variation on the same theme I hear in bars around here after someone tries to shoot a ball down the rail past the side pocket into a far corner pocket and hits the far corner of the side pocket:

It must be cold in here, the nipples on the side tits are sticking out.

 

[LWW]

Yes but felt is never woven.

But wool is often often felt. :groucho::groucho::groucho:

LWW

 

[JoeyA]

Inside English
Outside English

Squerve (Swerve + Squirt) all three....kind of new...

Oh yeah, "accelerate your cue tip through the cue ball".
JoeyA

 

[royzornow]

Back-hand English

Parallel English