🇬🇧 Cue meaning: English Vocabulary Flash Card

A cue is a long, thin wooden stick with a tiny piece of leather at the tip. People use it to carefully hit balls on a special table in games like billiards or snooker. You hold the cue in your hands, aim at a ball, and gently push or strike the ball so it rolls across the table and (hopefully!) goes into a pocket.

The cue made a tiny ‘click’ on the ball, followed by a giant ‘NOOOO’ from everyone watching.

The fancy player wiped his cue like it was a royal sword, then missed the easiest shot in the history.

Dad said, “Just tap the ball,” but with my mighty cue swing I sent it flying like it was late for a meeting.

I held the cue like a broom, and the billiards table has never been so badly swept.

When my brother missed the ball completely, he blamed the cue for “being allergic to accuracy.”

At the small pool table, she picked up a cue, a smooth cue long and worn, and placed the tip near the white ball. She rested the cue on her hand, aimed, and stroked so the cue struck clean. Balls jumped, the eight rolled in, and she grinned, tucking the cue back into the rack with relief.

This word is at the C2 level, which means it represents the highest mastery of English. It’s often used in specialized or highly formal contexts and helps you communicate with precision and subtlety, much like a native speaker.

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