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Definition of 'carom'English
Alternative forms
* carrom
Noun
( en-noun)
(cue sports|especially billiards) A shot in which the ball struck with the cue comes in contact with two or more balls on the table; a hitting of two or more balls with the player's ball.
A billiard-like Indian game in which players take turns flicking checker-like pieces into one of four goals on the corners of (one meter by one meter square) board.
Synonyms
* (shot in which the cue ball strikes two balls) cannon (UK)
Verb
( en-verb)
To make a carom (shot in billiards).
To strike and bounce back; to strike (something) and rebound.
* '>citation
- Snow filled her mouth. She caromed off things she never saw, tumbling through a cluttered canyon like a steel marble falling through pins in a pachinko machine.
* 1922 , John Reed, Ten Days that Shook the World :
- [T]he grubit bombs went rolling back and forth over our feet, fetching up against the sides of the car with a crash. The big Red Guard, whose name was Vladimir Nicolaievitch, plied me with questions about America while we held on to each other and danced amid the caroming bombs.
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Similar to 'carom'cream, charm, cerium, curium, cram, corium, crim, carrom, corm, crum, chirm
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