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Welcome to the billiard, pool, and snooker glossary of terms. This is the definition of Kitchen as it relates to cue sports. You can also view the entire billiard dictionary.
The kitchen is the area of a pool table behind the head string. Break shots are performed from the kitchen, and the kitchen is the normally required area from where ball in hand shots are executed.
You have ball in hand in the kitchen so you must shoot from behind the head string.
The term "kitchen" is considered to be a slang term related to pool tables. The kitchen definition was entered on 3/13/2006 and was updated on 10/24/2007 9:49:30 AM. It is a cue sport term that is related to pool tables. It was entered in to the database by the Billiards Forum Editor.the term Kitchen has some origin and/or history information on file. The origin of the term kitchen is unknown, but is thought to date back to the 1800s. In this era, homes were generally not large enough to accommodate a separate room for a billiard table. Because of this, many homeowners decided put their billiard tables in their dining room which were adjacent to the actual kitchen. Placement of the billiard table had to be strategic since the dining rooms were not extremely large. This usually meant aligning the head string end of the table near the door or archway to the kitchen. This allowed the billiard players to literally stand in the kitchen or half in the kitchen while performing the break shot. See also: in the kitchen, baulk for more on the meaning of kitchen.
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