A pocket billiards (pool) game played with sixteen balls (a cue ball and fifteen object balls) on a pool table with six pockets.
The billards ball, almost always black, bearing the number eight.
(slang) A portion of cocaine or methamphetamine weighing 1/8 of an ounce, or 3.5 grams.
2003, House of Sand and Fog (film), 00:43:39:(a policeman confiding to a friend) ".. She had welts and bruises all over. So, one night we get called out there again, and I slip down their hallway and stuff two eight balls in his closet. Turns out he was on parole. He goes back to jail, she's safe, and I slept like a baby."
(pool) To pot all one's colour balls and then the black ball (or eight-ball) without the opponent potting a single one.
2008, Edward Keating , The Joy of Ex: A NovelShe whips me in the first game of pool, I do not even get a shot. Eight-balled from the break.“Have you been practising?†I ask my sister.“Some,†she says, “play again?â€â€œOne more.â€My sister beats me at pool in public a second time. I claim some dignity back by potting two of my balls before Tammy sinks the black.
