English

Alternative forms

• carrom

Noun

carom ‎(plural caroms)

1. (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.
2. 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)

Translations

Verb

carom ‎(third-person singular simple present caroms, present participle caroming, simple past and past participle caromed)

1. (intransitive) To make a carom (shot in billiards).
2. To strike and bounce back; to strike (something) and rebound.
   • 2012 November 14, John Branch, “Snow Fall : The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek”, in New York Time:

     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.

References

Anagrams

• macro
• Marco

Polish

Noun

carom

1. dative plural of car

Welsh

Pronunciation

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈkarɔm/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈkɑːrɔm/

Verb

carom

1. (literary) first-person plural subjunctive of caru

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