massé

[ ma-seyor, especially British, mas-ee ]

noun

, Billiards.

1. a stroke made by hitting the cue ball with the cue held almost or quite perpendicular to the table.

massé

/ ˈmæsɪ /

noun

1. billiards a stroke made by hitting the cue ball off centre with the cue held nearly vertically, esp so as to make the ball move in a curve around another ball before hitting the object ball

Word History and Origins

Origin of massé¹

1870–75; < French: literally, hammered, i.e., struck from above, straight down, equivalent to masse sledge hammer ( Old French mace; mace ¹ ) + -é -ee

Word History and Origins

Origin of massé¹

C19: from French, from masser to hit from above with a hammer, from masse sledgehammer, from Old French mace mace ¹

Example Sentences

“The majority has spoken, and researchers are moving en masse” to Bluesky, says De-Shaine Murray, a neuroscientist at Yale University who has also migrated to Bluesky.

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From BBC

In an election campaign where immigration loomed large as a major concern of US voters, Trump frequently pledged to deport migrants en masse from US soil from his first day in office if he were to return to the presidency.

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And his plans to fire agency employees en masse will run into federal protections and the slow process for dismissing government workers.

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