Probably derived fromFrenchcarambole (the red ball inbilliards).
carom (countable anduncountable,pluralcaroms)
- (countable, cue sports, especially billiards) Ashot in which theballstruck with thecue comes in contact with two or moreballs on thetable; a hitting of two or more balls with the player's ball.
- Synonym:(UK)cannon
- (uncountable) A billiard-likeIndian game in which players take turns flicking checker-like pieces into one of four goals on the corners of a board measuring one meter by one meter.
shot in which the cue ball strikes two balls
carom (third-person singular simple presentcaroms,present participlecaroming,simple past and past participlecaromed)
- (intransitive) To make acarom(shot in billiards).
- Tostrike andbounce back; to strike (something) andrebound.
2012, John Branch, “Snow Fall : The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek”, inNew York Time[1]:Snow filled her mouth. Shecaromed 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]hegrubit 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 thecaroming bombs.
“carom”, inWebster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.:G. & C. Merriam,1913,→OCLC.
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carom (uncountable)
- Ajwain.
- “carom”, inOneLook Dictionary Search.
- IPA(key): /ˈt͡sa.rɔm/
- Rhymes:-arɔm
- Syllabification:ca‧rom
carom m
- dativeplural ofcar
carom
- (literary)first-personpluralpresentsubjunctive ofcaru
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