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Welcome to the billiard, pool, and snooker glossary of terms. This is the definition of Jail as it relates to cue sports. You can also view the entire billiard dictionary.
A player is considered in jail when he or she is on the receiving side of a safety situation where that player is faced with an impossible, or very difficult time of making a legal shot on the object ball. Used in one pocket, to put your opponent in jail means to leave the cue ball locked up in a particularly confining trap.
Jeff, you are in jail because no matter what you do, you are probably going to end up fouling.
The term "jail" is considered to be a slang term related to billiard technique. The jail definition was entered on 4/16/2006 and was updated on 10/24/2007 9:49:27 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: get out of jail shot, snooker, snookered, hook, hooked for more on the meaning of jail.
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