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Welcome to the billiard, pool, and snooker glossary of terms. This is the definition of Scratch as it relates to cue sports. You can also view the entire billiard dictionary.
Scratch refers to the undesirable act of pocketing the cue ball in pocket billiard games. A scratch in most games is considered a foul. In a more general and unofficial sense, the term scratch refers to all types of fouls.
Be careful not to scratch on the 3 ball.
The scratch definition was entered on 3/15/2006 and was updated on 1/13/2008 9:49:56 AM. It is a cue sport term that is related to game rules. It was entered in to the database by the Billiards Forum Editor. See also: foul for more on the meaning of scratch.
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