carom

• carrom

Probably corrupted from French carambole (the red ball in billiards).

• IPA^(key): /ˈkæ.ɹəm/
• Rhymes: -æɹʌm

carom (countable and uncountable, plural caroms)

1. (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.
2. (uncountable) 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.

• (shot in which the cue ball strikes two balls): cannon (UK)

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, 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.

carom (uncountable)

1. (spices) ajwain

• AMORC, Comar, Coram, Marco, macro, macro-

carom

1. dative plural of car

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

carom

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