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View synonyms for pool hall

pool hall

or poolhall

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Word History and Origins

Origin of pool hall1

An Americanism dating back to 1925–30

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Example Sentences

The 1961 trial involved Clarence Earl Gideon, who was charged in a Florida court with the felony burglary of a local pool hall.

Clarence Earl Gideon was arrested in 1961 and charged with breaking into a Florida pool hall.

He was gone when we got there and we found him down at a pool hall telling all his buddies about the operation.

He envisaged a future free of pool hall smells and the glandular malfunctioning of his predator owner.

Several horses splashed across the creek and their riders disappeared inside the portals of the pool hall.

At eleven, when they were still in a pool-hall playing "solo" for a cent a chip, he decided to go home.

The proprietor of the pool hall agreed to watch the “Seagull” and warn all curious boys to stay away from it.

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