/'bɪlɪədz; `bɪljɚdz/
n [sing v] game for two people played with cues and three balls on an oblong cloth-covered table 台球戏; 弹子戏
*have a game of billiards 打一局台球
* Billiards is played by women as well as men. 打台球男女皆宜.

n[U]
[Date: 1500-1600; Language: French;Origin: billard '(stick used in) billiards', from bille 'piece of wood, stick']
a game played on a cloth-covered table in which balls are hit with a cue (=a long stick) against each other and into pockets at the edge of the table
→pool, snooker snooker
>billiardadj [only before noun]
　a billiard table