carom
English edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology 1 edit
Probably corrupted from French carambole (the red ball in billiards).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
carom (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.
- Synonym: (UK) cannon
- (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.
Derived terms edit
Translations edit
shot in which the cue ball strikes two balls
board game
Verb edit
carom (third-person singular simple present caroms, present participle caroming, simple past and past participle caromed)
- (intransitive) To make a carom (shot in billiards).
- To strike and bounce back; to strike (something) and rebound.
- 2012, John Branch, “Snow Fall : The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek”, in New York Time[1]:
- 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 edit
“carom”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Etymology 2 edit
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Noun edit
carom (uncountable)
References edit
- “carom”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
Anagrams edit
Polish edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
carom m
Welsh edit
Pronunciation edit
- (North Wales) IPA(key): /ˈkarɔm/
- (South Wales) IPA(key): /ˈkaːrɔm/, /ˈkarɔm/
Verb edit
carom
Mutation edit
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radical | soft | nasal | aspirate |
carom | garom | ngharom | charom |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |