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Carom   Listen
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Carom  n.  (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. In England it is called cannon.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Carom" Quotes from Famous Books



... knock, tap, rap, slap, smack, pat, dab; fillip; slam, bang; hit, whack, thwack; cuff &c. 972; squash, dowse, swap, whap[obs3], punch, thump, pelt, kick, punce|, calcitration[obs3]; ruade[obs3]; arietation|; cut, thrust, lunge, yerk|; carom, carrom[obs3], clip *, jab, plug*, sidewinder* [U.S.], sidewipe[obs3], sideswipe [U.S.]. hammer, sledge hammer, mall, maul, mallet, flail; ram, rammer[obs3]; battering ram, monkey, pile-driving engine, punch, bat; cant hook; cudgel &c. (weapon) 727; ax &c. (sharp) 253. [Science ...
— Roget's Thesaurus



Words linked to "Carom" :   shot, resile, repercussion, bound, ricochet, stroke, bounce, spring, billiards, reverberate, recoil, take a hop, backlash, rebound, shoot, cannon, pocket billiards, pool



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