Kelly pool

English

Etymology

Reportedly invented by Calistus "Kelly" Mulvaney in 1893.

Noun

Kelly pool (uncountable)

  1. 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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