poolroom

[ pool-room, -room ]

noun

1. an establishment or room for the playing of pool or billiards.
2. a place where betting is carried on, especially illegally; a bookmaker's establishment.

poolroom

/ ˈpuːlˌruːm; -ˌrʊm /

noun

1. a hall or establishment where pool, billiards, etc, are played

Word History and Origins

Origin of poolroom¹

First recorded in 1860–65; pool ² + room

Example Sentences

In Los Angeles, he witnesses a police shooting in a poolroom and laments the despair and dissolution in his own community.

From Los Angeles Times

Theirs was the Cadillac of clubhouses, sporting several parlors and a poolroom, a bounty of boxing gloves, baseball team jerseys, bats, and cleats, all paid for by their political patron, Frank Ragen.

From Literature

These boys, now, who stood before drugstore windows, before poolrooms, on every street corner, who whistled after her, whose lean bodies fairly rang, it seemed, with idleness, and malice, and frustration.

From Literature

The Street of the Turks echoed with a Saturday that lasted for several days and in the poolroom at the Hotel Jacob they had to arrange twenty-four-hour shifts.

From Literature

When home from the hotel circuit, Howard’s longings were for the simplicities of small-town life: spending time with family and friends and working in the family’s poolroom.

From Literature