A pad, known as a cue tip, is glued to the narrow end (tip) of the cue. A small block of cue chalk is rubbed on the pad to prevent the cue tip sliding off the billiard/snooker/pool balls.
it is chalk
Billiards Chalk.
chalk
Francois Mignaud was the first person to place a leather tip on the end of the cue. A Captain in the French army, Mignaud was imprisoned and perfected his idea of a leather tip in prison. After his release, he put on many exhibitions showing amazing billiards shots. He authored a book in 1827 describing the art of fine billiards, the firs publiched work of its kind.
He enjoyed playing billiards, and also to shoot pool with his good friends! You could even put more games into the sentence!
Each time you stroke the cue ball to the left or right of center, some degree of english is applied. (Note that english is not capitalized, it has nothing to do with England.) How much english you get is based on 4 factors - how far from cue ball center contact is made; how long the cue tip stays in contact with the cue ball; condition of the cue tip; condition of the cue ball and pool table playing surface. To increase the amount of english, a soft cue tip is required and the player must accelerate the cue as contact is made with the cue ball, resulting in staying in contact for a longer period. In addition, if you have a cue that you know you will use english with quite regularly, the tip should have the "dime" shape. Cue tips are typically shaped to the curvature of either a nickel or a dime. The shape of a dime allows the tip to stay in contact with the cue ball longer than the nickel shape, improving english.
"cue-shoo" (to put an approximate pronunciation)
Oh, dude, it's chalk. Yeah, you know, like the stuff teachers use on blackboards? Well, in billiards, we use it on the cue tip to reduce slippage and help us nail those shots. So, don't forget to chalk up before you break!
By "out" I assume you mean off the table. If you hit the cue ball off the table it is a scratch, and is taken in the kitchen. If you hit a playing ball off the table, it is put in the pocket or in the center of the table depending on the rules you decide before the game (traditionally it is pocketed), and it becomes the other players turn. If you hit the 8 ball off the table, you lose. ADD: Good answer, but slightly incomplete. First off, I will assume you don't mean billiards, but pocket billiards, and further assume you mean the traditional game of 8 ball, or "Boston". If the cueball leaves the table(and remains off the playing surface) it is a foul. Except on the break, the incoming player receives ball in hand. On the break, the cueball must be placed "in the kitchen". If the cue ball leaves the table, but returns, without hitting anything (chalk, light fixture, wall, player) it is legal. The cueball may travel down the rail, spin back on the table, this is fine. Any object ball that leaves the table is pocketed, and a foul occurs, unless it is the 8 ball, then loss of game occurs.
No, after a scratch in pool, the cue ball must be placed behind the headstring (imaginary line across the table) for the next shot.
the way i learned is the line that u put the cue behind (idk if that's the head line or not) u cant hit anything behind that unless u hit it to the othe end it bounces back and hits it but u cant aim right at the ball
They misspelled it, they meant to put a c there, as in, that's your cue.