pool hall

(redirected from Poolhall)

pool hall

or

poolhall

n
(Billiards & Snooker) a hall or establishment where pool, billiards, etc, are played
Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014
References in periodicals archive ?
Devoted to commerce, Belmont was home to the Army National Bank, Pfeifer's Cantonment Store, the Hippodrome Theatre, Camp Pike Officers Club and the Dixie-land Poolhall and more.
Even their sportscasters don't know how to loosen up ("How did that pahss find its intended recipient?" Eurosport 2 wonders, while down in the poolhall, if someone happens to "pot" a few balls he will have made a fine "contribution" on his "visit" to the table and perhaps "reduce the deficit" [i.e., cut his opponent's lead]).
Shot on HD over the course of a week, calling-card pic looks and sounds like an Off Off Broadway play, although Callahan's constant "Swingers'-style banter could earn more work for the underemployed "Poolhall Junkies" writer-director.
Freddie Prinze Jr (left) and Ving Rhames will star in Poolhall Prophets about a street-smart hustler who finds himself in the middle of a high-stakes match between his boss and a corrupt cop.
Veteran western character actor Ben Johnson, as Sam the Lion, the town's poolhall operator and resident conscience, won the Oscar over Jeff Bridges, and Cloris Leachman, best known for her role in TV's "Mary Tyler Moore Show," outpolled Ellen Burstyn.
WHAT DOES IT TAKE to turn a mom-and-pop poolhall into the largest full-line sporting goods store in Utah?
To help bring much-needed money into the household, the stalwart student set pins at the local bowling alley and poolhall. Since the Mormon Church forbids the consumption of alcohol, bowling was a popular past-time in Cardston in 1956 and he earned up to $600 a month setting pins for the bowling leagues in southern Alberta, a lot of money in those days.
What we get is the impression of a man who, in the excellent poolhall phrase, too rarely stopped talking and started chalking.