word of the day - carom
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scottobearcarom \KAIR-um\, noun:
1. A rebound following a collision; a glancing off.
2. A shot in billiards in which the cue ball successively
strikes two other balls on the table.
intransitive verb:
1. To strike and rebound; to glance.
2. To make a carom.
transitive verb:
To make (an object) bounce off something; to cause to carom.
Carom derives from obsolete carambole, from Spanish carambola, "a stroke at billiards."
1. A rebound following a collision; a glancing off.
2. A shot in billiards in which the cue ball successively
strikes two other balls on the table.
intransitive verb:
1. To strike and rebound; to glance.
2. To make a carom.
transitive verb:
To make (an object) bounce off something; to cause to carom.
Carom derives from obsolete carambole, from Spanish carambola, "a stroke at billiards."
