noun

• 1A place for playing pool.

  ‘The sharp-dressed young ‘cats’ who hung on the corners and in the poolrooms, bars and restaurants, and who obviously didn't work anywhere completely entranced me.’

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  • ‘He used to run a small gymnasium over a poolroom on Fourteenth Street, near Luchow's, and he still owns it.’
  • ‘Robbers struck saloons, poolrooms, and restaurants shortly after the workers in nearby factories received their pay.’
  • ‘Throughout the day, people play cards or leisurely shoot some stick in the poolroom.’
  • ‘A boy had taken some balls from the poolroom and was juggling then when they clashed in mid air.’

• 2A betting shop.

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  • ‘At this time he was already gambling at the poolroom.’