carom

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"But--you must all know all about it presently, so you may as well hear it at once--Dudley has gone away What Max stopped in the act of trying for a carom, and stared at his sister Why, he only came when I did, ten minutes ago He's gone, I tell you!"

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  1. noun A collision followed by a rebound.
  2. noun A shot in billiards in which the cue ball successively strikes two other balls. Also called billiard.
  3. noun A similar shot in a related game, such as pool.
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  • Five minutes in, the Aristocrats executed a three-carom shot off the dome that was slapped into the corner of the net by a lurking forward. —  Asimov's SF, September 2006
  • Sunday's carom was Masters manna from heaven, made all the better because after a stellar wedge shot, Cabrera made the clutch five-footer to save par and extend the playoff. —  Sports News : CBSSports.com
  • The Asian federation could also seek to find out why Taipei hasn't brought into the fold, a country that has world class players in the Cinderella discipline of cue sports - carom pocketless billiards. —  The Times Of India Sports
  • Two runs came across on 3 hits before Jason Bay threw out Lyle Overbay after taking the carom, Yaz-like, off the wall. —  Peter's Red Sox Forever
  • The carom-ball specialist wove a thousand cobwebs around the famed Indian batting line-up during the just concluded three Test series in the Island country. —  The Times of India
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  1. Short for carambole, a stroke at billiards, from French, a billiard ball, from Spanish carambola, a stroke at billiards, perhaps from Portuguese, carambola; see carambola.

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  1. Short for carambole, n., q. v.
  2. from carom, n., or short for carambole, v., q. v.
 

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