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The most widely canvassed theory of the origins of the word snooker is that it is an adaptation of late 19th-century British army slang snooker "new recruit." The game was invented, as a diversion perhaps from the monotony of billiards, by British army officers serving in India in the 1870s, and the story goes that the term snooker was applied to it by Colonel Sir Neville Chamberlain (1856-1944), at that time a subaltern stationed in Jubbulpore, in allusion to the inept play of one of his brother officers.
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