carom

or car·rom

[ kar-uhm ]

/ ˈkær əm /

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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.

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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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How to use carom in a sentence

The ping of the ball caroming off the right post cut through the vuvuzelas for an instant.
U.S. Falls to Ghana|Joshua Robinson|June 24, 2010|DAILY BEAST
Close in the fork he was protected on either side from the hammering blows of the caroming timber.
The Promise|James B. Hendryx
Rick followed through with a battering charge that sent a clerk caroming into a stack of copper jars.
The Egyptian Cat Mystery|Harold Leland Goodwin
Kenniston's shoulder hit the captain and sent him caroming into Murdock.
The World with a Thousand Moons|Edmond Hamilton

We simply fell over the cliff, plunging, caroming, and ricocheting down through the masses of vegetation.
In Africa|John T. McCutcheon
There are seldom any sidewalks, and when there are, they are not often wide enough to pass a man on without caroming on him.
The Innocents Abroad|Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)

British Dictionary definitions for carom

carom

/ (ˈkærəm) /

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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carom

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