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Welcome to the billiard, pool, and snooker glossary of terms. This is the definition of Bank as it relates to cue sports. You can also view the entire billiard dictionary.
In billiards, bank loosely refers to a cushion. It also can be used to refer to a bank shot, which means to shoot the object ball into a cushion in order to rebound it off toward the intended pocket. It can also be used to describe the action of shooting the object ball first toward a cushion with the intent of directing someplace. It would be said that the shooting player intended to bank the object ball off of the cushion.
Why don't you try to bank the shot off of the side rail.
You can shoot an object ball off a bank and into a pocket.
You can bank the six ball off the side cushion in to the corner pocket.
The term "bank" is considered to be a slang term related to billiard technique. The bank definition was entered on 12/20/2007 10:27:00 PM and was updated on 12/20/2007 10:27:00 PM. It is a cue sport term that is related to billiard technique. It was entered in to the database by the Billiards Forum Editor. See also: bank shot, banked ball, bank, banking lane, cross corner bank, cross over bank, cross side, short bank, shorten a bank, z-bank for more on the meaning of bank.
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