carom

or car·rom

[kar-uh m]

noun

Billiards, Pool. a shot in which the cue ball hits two balls in succession.

any strike and rebound, as a ball striking a wall and glancing off.

verb (used without object)

to make a carom.

to strike and rebound.

Origin of carom

1770–80; by false analysis of carambole (taken as carom ball) < French < Spanish carambola, special use of fruit name; see carambola

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Related Words for caromed

glance, skim, ricochet, strike, bump, rebound, graze

Examples from the Web for caromed

Contemporary Examples of caromed

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Historical Examples of caromed

Burke's glasses flew from his face, hit the catwalk and caromed off to the ground.
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Robert Shea
Something wriggled at his knees and caromed off against Verba.
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Irvin S. Cobb
Allen blocked it with his chest and caromed it over to Swift.
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Carey Rockwell
It caromed off at a crazy angle, wobbling in its flight as the mercury within rolled from side to side.
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Carey Rockwell
At the door he tried to move aside but was too slow for the quick moving young woman who caromed off him.
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Dallas McCord Reynolds

British Dictionary definitions for caromed

carom

noun

billiards, US and Canadian

a shot in which the cue ball is caused to contact one object ball after another
the points scored by this

Also called (in Britain and certain other countries): cannon

Word Origin for carom

C18: from earlier carambole (taken as carom ball), from Spanish carambola

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Word Origin and History for caromed

carom

1860, from carom (n.). Related: Caromed; caroming.

carom

1779, earlier carambole (1775), from French carambole "the red ball in billiards," from Spanish carombola "the red ball in billiards," perhaps originally "fruit of the tropical Asian carambola tree," which is round and orange and supposed to resemble a red billiard ball; from Marathi (southern Indian) karambal. Originally a type of stroke involving the red ball:

If the Striker hits the Red and his Adversary's Ball with his own Ball he played with, he wins two Points; which Stroke is called a Carambole, or for Shortness, a Carrom. ["Hoyle's Games Improved," London, 1779]