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Welcome to the billiard, pool, and snooker glossary of terms. This is the definition of Red Ball as it relates to cue sports. You can also view the entire billiard dictionary.
In cue sports, the term red ball has several different contexts. In snooker, a red ball refers to any one of the 15 red balls in the set of snooker balls that are each worth 1 point. In carom billiards games, the red ball is the ball that not allocated to either of the players. In the game of blackball, the red ball is one of two groups of seven object balls that need to be pocketed before the black ball is pocketed. The red ball is spotted before the yellow ball.
You need to shoot at a red ball Ross, since you just potted a blue.
The red ball definition was entered on 1/7/2008 7:46:19 PM and was updated on 1/7/2008 7:46:19 PM. It is a cue sport term that is related to billiard accessories. It was entered in to the database by the Billiards Forum Editor. See also: yellow ball, yellows for more on the meaning of red ball.
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