Some 16th-century Italian clergymen tried to ban coffee because they believed it to be “satanic.” However, Pope Clement VII loved coffee so much that he lifted the ban and had coffee baptized in 1600.
SNOOKER
snooker
(noun) a form of pool played with 15 red balls and six balls of other colors and a cue ball
snooker
(verb) leave one’s opponent unable to take a direct shot
snooker
(verb) fool or dupe; “He was snookered by the con-man’s smooth talk”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
snooker (countable and uncountable, plural snookers)
A cue sport, popular in the UK and other Commonwealth of Nations countries.
(snooker, pool) The situation where the cue ball is in such a position that the opponent cannot directly hit the required ball with it.
Verb
snooker (third-person singular simple present snookers, present participle snookering, simple past and past participle snookered)
(intransitive) To play the game of snooker.
(transitive) To fool or bamboozle.
(transitive, snooker, pool) To place the cue ball in such a position that (the opponent) cannot directly hit the required ball with it.
(transitive, by extension) To put (someone) in a difficult situation.
To become or cause to become inebriated.
Source: Wiktionary
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