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n. A collision followed by a rebound.

n. A shot in billiards in which the cue ball successively strikes two other balls. Also called billiard.

n. A similar shot in a related game, such as pool.

verb-intransitive. To collide and rebound; glance: The car caromed off the guardrail into the ditch.

verb-intransitive. To make a carom, as in billiards.

v. To cause to carom.

n. 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; in England it is called cannon.

n. An Indian game played on a board measuring one meter by one meter square. Players take turns flicking checker-like pieces into one of four goals on the corners of the table. This billiard-like game is played entirely with the fingers, and usually while sitting on the floor.

v. To make a carom.

n. 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. In England it is called cannon.

verb-intransitive. To make a carom.

n. In billiards, the hitting of two or three balls in succession by the cue-ball from one stroke of the cue: in Great Britain sometimes called cannon. Also spelled carrom.

In billiards, to make a carom (which see).

To strike or collide against a thing and then rebound or glance off again; cannon: usually with on, and common in racing slang: as, Eclipse caromed on High-flyer and injured his chance of winning.

Also spelled carrom.

v. rebound after hitting

n. a glancing rebound

v. make a carom

n. a shot in billiards in which the cue ball contacts one object ball and then the other

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