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Welcome to the billiard, pool, and snooker glossary of terms. This is the definition of Around the World as it relates to cue sports. You can also view the entire billiard dictionary.
Refers to the use of coins as way to keep track of games won when playing for small money. Billiard players use a coin that is placed under the rail and next to the diamonds or spots. The center diamond at the head rail of the table is zero, and each diamond away from that is considered to be one game. To go "around the world" is to beat your opponent enough times that the coin travels all the way around the diamonds on the billiards table.
Robert went around the world and beat Jimmy in the set.
The term "around the world" is considered to be a slang term related to scoring. The around the world definition was entered on 4/10/2006 and was updated on 10/24/2007 9:47:58 AM. It is a cue sport term that is related to scoring. It was entered in to the database by the Billiards Forum Editor.
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