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carom, carrom|ˈkærəm|
An abbreviation of carambole, applied to the stroke so called in Billiards; now corrupted to cannon n.1 7.
A. n.
1779C. Jones Hoyle's Games Impr. 260 Which stroke is called a Carambole, or for shortness, a Carrom. 1826Hoyle Impr. 396 A carombole or carom. 1850Bohn Handbk. Games 519 A canon (formerly carom or carombole). 1872Mark Twain Innoc. Abr. xii. 84 We accomplished very little in the way of caroms.
B. v. intr. (transf. in quots.) To strike or glance and rebound. Also fig. Chiefly U.S.
1860O. W. Holmes Prof. Breakf.-t. 67 She glanced from every human contact, and ‘caromed’ from one relation to another. 1883Harper's Mag. Mar. 494/2 A single stone was made to ‘carom’. 1911Mulford Bar-20 Days iv. 45 The table skidded through the door on one leg and carromed off the bar at a graceful angle. 1943K. Tennant Ride on Stranger (1968) xvii. 219 It was here that Mrs. Brewster made the mistake..of caroming off a telegraph post into the ditch. 1946H. Croome Faithless Mirror xviii. 192 The car lurched crazily..up the gully, caroming from side to side. 1952B. Wolfe Limbo '90 xix. 284 The phrase caromed through his mind. 1967Boston Globe 18 May 36/8 Rockets carom to the moon. |