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Welcome to the billiard, pool, and snooker glossary of terms. This is the definition of Long as it relates to cue sports. You can also view the entire billiard dictionary.
On bank shots, to come up long means to miss towards the far side of the pocket, in the direction that too much running English would tend to send the object ball. Also, a table could be said to be playing long, when it appears to have a tendency towards longer, more open rebound angles.
It was a great try on that shot on the 6 ball, but it came up long.
The long definition was entered on 4/16/2006 and was updated on 10/24/2007 9:49:33 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.
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