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- noun Plural form of
carrom .
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Examples
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"Because every one of his carroms was a _tick-it_ to the _ball_."
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 39, January, 1861 Various
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He misses those glancing hits which the hard-featured young professional person calls "carroms," and insists on pocketing his own ball instead of the other one.
Medical Essays, 1842-1882 Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851
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He misses those glancing hits which the hard-featured young professional person calls "carroms," and insists on pocketing his own ball instead of the other one.
Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851
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It's bad enough to stub your toe on a rock, but when your boot then carroms off the rock into your bare calf, that is just adding insult to injury.
badger Diary Entry badger 2003
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Every time the ball carroms off a pin it shifts the course through a fairly large, but unpredictable angle.
Galactic Patrol Smith, E. E. 1950
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They would rather play snooker or carroms, he said.
Kuensel Newspaper 2009
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