bottle pool

bottle pool
noun
: pool played with a cue ball, two object balls, and a leather bottle placed upside down, points being scored for caroming, pocketing an object ball, or overturning the bottle after hitting an object ball; broadly : any pool game in which a leather bottle is used on the table

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