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2018, Ezra Klein, “Paul Ryan's Long Con”, in Vox.com:
But to critics like the New York Times's Paul Krugman, Ryan was an obvious con man weaponizing the deficit to hamstring Obama's presidency, weaken the recovery, and snooker Beltway centrists eager to champion a reasonable-seeming Republican.
2023, Daniel Duane, “It’s August. Californians Are Still Skiing. Don’t Ask.”, in nytimes.com:
Los Angeles would still be a piddling little town in a desert if it weren’t for Sierra snowmelt and city officials crafty enough to snooker eastern California farmers out of their water rights.
(transitive,snooker, pool) To place the cue ball in such a position that (the opponent) cannot directly hit the required ball with it.
(transitive, by extension) To put (someone) in a difficult situation.
2023 July 12, Ben Jones, “'Thunderbirds' are go on the ECML...”, in RAIL, number 987, page 34:
Sam McDougall, Operations Director for NR's East Coast Route, explains: "Until recently, if anything went wrong in the two-track section between Stoke and Doncaster, we were snookered.
To become or cause to become inebriated. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
“snooker”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03