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countable and uncountable, plural caroms
(countable, 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. examples
(uncountable) A billiard-like Indian 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. examples
third-person singular simple present caroms, present participle caroming, simple past and past participle caromed
(intransitive) To make a carom (shot in billiards). examples
To strike and bounce back; to strike (something) and rebound. quotations examples
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.
2012, John Branch, “Snow Fall : The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek”, in New York Time
[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.
1922, John Reed, Ten Days that Shook the World
uncountable
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