However, due to the predominance of US-originating terminology in most internationally competitive pool (as opposed to snooker), US terms are also common in the pool context in other countries in which English is at least a minority language, and US (and borrowed French) terms predominate in carom billiards.
Similarly, British terms predominate in the world of snooker, English billiards, and blackball, regardless of the players' nationalities.
Blackball was chosen because it is less ambiguous ("eight-ball pool" is too easily confused with the international standardized "eight-ball"), and blackball is globally standardized by an International Olympic Committee-recognized governing body, the World Pool-Billiard Association (WPA); meanwhile, its ancestor, eight-ball pool, is largely a folk game, like North American bar pool, and to the extent that its rules have been codified, they have been done so by competing authorities with different rulesets.
Foreign-language terms are generally not within the scope of this list, unless they have become an integral part of billiards terminology in English (e.g. massé), or they are crucial to meaningful discussion of a game not widely known in the English-speaking world.
A colour ball must be potted after each red in the continuation of a break, and are re-spotted until the reds run out, after which the colours must be potted in their order: Also point of contact.Also counting rack, counter ball rack,[52] etc.Also dog it.Also double elimination.
Sometimes interchangeable with scratch, though the latter is often used only to refer to the foul of pocketing the cue ball.A violation of a particular game's rules for which a set penalty is imposed.
In addition, some variations of the game allow the player to pot one of the opposition's balls, on the first visit only, without the loss of a "free shot".
Main article: Cue sports techniques § Semi-masséUsually set-up in non-verb form, sometimes setup in noun form particularly.Also pool shark, poolshark (US); sharp, pool sharp (British)Also topspin, top-spin, top.Also treble century, triple-century break, treble-century break.Also under-cut.Also the white.Also yellow(s), the yellow(s).