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Welcome to the billiard, pool, and snooker glossary of terms. This is the definition of Hugging the Rail as it relates to cue sports. You can also view the entire billiard dictionary.
Hugging the Rail is a billiard term used in North America to describe a ball that is stuck to the rail and touching it. This is usually achieved by shooting the cue ball as such that it strikes the cushion and the object ball at virtually the same time, sending the object ball straight down the rail while it is hugging the rail. Hugging the rail is a term that can be applied to any ball, cue or object, that is either rolling tightly along a rail while either in contact with it, or near contact with it. It can also be applied to a ball that is rolling along a rail while making multiple successive touches to the rail in the process.
That nine ball is just hugging the rail.
The term "hugging the rail" is considered to be a slang term related to billiard technique. The hugging the rail definition was entered on 12/1/2007 12:55:02 AM and was updated on 12/1/2007 12:55:02 AM. 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: velcro, velcroing for more on the meaning of hugging the rail.
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