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"1": "?"
},
"expansion": "dead weight",
"name": "en-adv"
}
],
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"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "adv",
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{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "2015, Steve Davis, Interesting: My Autobiography",
"text": "I had no escape other than trying to roll off a side cushion, just ahead of the middle pocket, and lay on a red, dead weight, about a foot from the pocket in open play.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2017, Hector Nunns, The Crucible's Greatest Matches: Forty Years of Snooker's World Championship",
"text": "I potted a really difficult cut red into the middle pocket, dropping it in dead weight and finishing on the pink for a 59 break that pretty much got me there.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2018, David Horrix, Complete Book of Snooker Shots",
"text": "From behind the Brown, aim to drop in dead-weight into the back of the pack.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"text": "He rolled the red in dead weight, and now he's nicely on the blue."
}
],
"glosses": [
"With just enough weight for a ball to drop into a pocket, or come to rest in a precisely determined position."
],
"links": [
[
"weight",
"weight"
]
],
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"(of a shot in snooker or other cue sports) With just enough weight for a ball to drop into a pocket, or come to rest in a precisely determined position."
],
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"of a shot in snooker or other cue sports"
]
}
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"synonyms": [
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"word": "deadweight"
}
],
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