User:Bioneural

A Prior is a snooker maneuver where the player pots any ball and the white ball, normatively in the same pocket white after colour ball.

However there are also a number of variations on the maneuver:

=Variations=

Reverse-Prior
An especially hard shot, this requires the white ball to enter the pocket before the colour ball enters the same pocket. Accolades must be given upon its completion.

Split-Prior
An slightly easier shot, it requires the white ball to enter the opposite pocket to the colour ball, normally due to a rebound from the original pocket

Half-Prior
This is a common maneuver, where only the white ball enters the pocket and the coloured one doesn't. Not to be commended, as it is a foul shot without much glory.

=Mythology= The history of the term is complicated, but it seems to have originated in the city of Oxford, and also seems to have been prevalent in the patious of BTh/CTh students of the city's first university. Despite the maneuvers themselves pre-dating the terms of description, a decline in time spent studying by the students aforementioned resulted in the formation of a unique categorisation system that linguists are only just starting to understand.