pool cue


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Synonyms for pool cue

sports implement consisting of a tapering rod used to strike a cue ball in pool or billiards

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Bilal left, threatening that he was going to get his 'boys' - and five minutes later he returned with Ahmed, who was armed with a pool cue, and Saleem.
"Someone in the hotel got angry, and to the surprise of both the security and the hotel workers, he began to hit us with a pool cue. We ran outside and saw that a lot of people were wounded," one of the teenagers told Ynetnews.
One attacked a firefighter with a pool cue and broke it off his helmet.
Filip, of Otley Street, Halifax, lashed out with the pool cue after tension boiled over between two rival groups in New Street, Bradford, in December last year.
"One of them started hitting me with the pool cue before I fell and grabbed the pool table as they continued their assault.
During this time someone approached Paul, who has cerebral palsy, severe learning difficulties and is wheelchair bound, and stole his beloved pool cue.
"We hit him with chairs, bottles, pool cues. His head was ripped to pieces but he was a tough guy, and got out of the place."
He was in danger; a pool cue (generally made of hard maple) can be lethal.
She got a broken nose and two black eyes when they hit her with a bat but she grabbed a pool cue.
A police spokesman said: "It is understood two males struck the male repeatedly around the head using a broken pool cue, until he was knocked unconscious.
A WALLASEY man knocked his best friend unconscious by hitting him on the neck with a pool cue.
Here is a sample of the 'great stylings' from McG., in his obit titled Minnesota Fats, A Real Hustler With A Pool Cue, Is Dead:
A welshman got skewered on a pool cue when stag-night high jinks went wrong.
Jack Franklin rolled away with a $300 pool cue donated by Viking Cues.
As an example of his technique, Wiedenhoeft describes working with a Texas crime lab last year in studying a splintered pool cue that had been used on someone's skull.