Definition of Cross over bank

Short for right english (side), i.e. side spin imparted to the cue ball by stroking it to the right-hand side of its vertical axis. Contrast left.

This is the ball that sits in the front, or apex, position in the rack.

This is a blemish added to the table in order to help execute a shot; these marks are not allowed and result in a foul.

A requirement under some pocket billiards rulesets that either an object ball be pocketed, or at least four object balls be driven to contact the cushions, on the opening break shot.

The ACS Canadian affiliate organization, the Canadian Cue Sport Association.

This describes a shot in carom games where the cue ball is driven all the way across the long rail, crossing the table, to score a point.

A players skill level, ball advantage or match advantage when using a handicapping system.

The three-foul rule describes a situation in which a player is assessed a defined penalty after committing a third successive foul. The exact penalty, its prerequisites and whether it is in place at all, vary depending on the games. In nine-ball and straight pool, a player must be the told he is on two fouls in order to transgress the rule, and if violated, results in a loss of game for the former and a special point penalty of a loss of fifteen points (plus one for the foul itself) in the latter together with the ability to require the violator to rerack and rebreak. In Irish standard pool and English billiards, it is a loss of game if a player commits a third foul while shooting at the black. In snooker, three successive fouls from an unsnookered position result in forfeiting the frame. Repeat fouls from a snookered position are quite common - Dave Harold holds the record in a competitive match, missing the same shot 14 successive times.

This is a fine powdery substance used to assist the sliding of the cue over the hand bridge.

A set practice routine.
In British terminology, a bank shot.

A barrel is how much money per game a player is betting. As in, "I have ten barrels at $20 a game".

A player who during the course of a tournament does not lose focus. Typically said of those players that regularly make it to the finals of a tournament.

Also in the zone. Describes an extended period of functioning in dead stroke ("She's in the zone").

This term is much like rain table and refers to a table is playing soggy due to humid conditions.

Same as gutter table. A table with a ball return system, as opposed to a drop pocket table.

English Amateur Billiards Association. The EABA is the governing body of amateur billiards in England, and as such is responsible for organizing various tournaments and events.

The inside walls of a pocket billiards table's pockets.

A fast paced offensive game similar to 9-ball but only using balls numbered 1 through 7.
Pocketing the 7-ball wins the game. Under the current pro rules of 7-ball, any missed shot gives your opponent ball-in-hand.

This is a tip tool for cleaning the edges of you tip after mushrooming occurs.

A type of nurse used in carom billiards games. With one object ball frozen to a cushion and the second object ball just slightly away from the rail, the cue ball is gently rebounded across the face of both balls, freezing the away ball to the rail and moving the frozen ball away the same distance its partner was previously, resulting in an identical but reversed configuration, in position to be struck again by the cue ball from the opposite side.

The person who is a provider of all or part of a player's stake (money) for a gambling session in which one is not a player.

When a player is on the receiving end of a devastating safety where it is very difficult or near impossible to make a legal hit on an object ball.

Playing an opponent for money who has no chance of winning based on disparity of skill levels. The term robbed is also sometimes used humorously in exclamations when a shot that looks like it would work did not, as in "Oh! You got robbed on that one!"

An unintentional and often barely perceptible curve imparted to the path of the cue ball from the use of english without a level cue. Not to be confused with a swerve shot.