Kelly pool in English

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        "A pocket billiards game using numbered markers, called peas or pills, and a standard set of sixteen pool balls. Players draw peas at random from a shake bottle, which assigns to them the correspondingly numbered pool ball, kept secret from their opponents, but which they must pocket in order to win the game."
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          "pea",
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          "pill",
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          "pool",
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"Kelly pool" meaning in English

Noun