caromn.v.
/ˈkarəm/, /ˈkarm̩/, U.S. /ˈkɛrəm/ A. n.
A stroke in Billiards; = carambole n. 2; now also called cannon n.1 11.
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > billiards, pool, or snooker > [noun] > actions or types of play > type of stroke
hazard1674
carambole1775
carom1779
cannon1802
screw1825
sidestroke1834
following stroke1837
cannonade1844
five-stroke1847
follow1850
scratch1850
fluke1857
jenny1857
bank shot1859
angle shot1860
draw shot1860
six-stroke1861
run-through1862
spot1868
quill1869
dead-stroke1873
loser1873
push1873
push stroke1873
stab1873
stab screw1873
draw1881
force1881
plant1884
anchor cannon1893
massé1901
angle1902
cradle-cannon1907
pot1907
jump shot1909
carry-along1913
snooker1924
1779 C. Jones Hoyle's Games Impr. 260 Which stroke is called a Carambole, or for shortness, a Carrom.
1826 Hoyle Impr. 396 A carombole or carom.
1850 H. G. Bohn et al. Hand-bk. Games 519 A canon (formerly carom or carombole).
1869 ‘M. Twain’ Innocents Abroad xii. 116 We accomplished very little in the way of caroms.
B. v.
intransitive. To strike or glance and rebound. In quots. transferred and figurative. Chiefly U.S.
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the world > movement > impact > impinge [verb (intransitive)] > collide > with rebound
cannon1842
carom1860
society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > billiards, pool, or snooker > [verb (intransitive)] > actions or types of play
carambole1775
string1814
cannon1825
to make a baulk1839
star1839
push1851
to play for safety1857
run1857
carom1860
to knock the balls about1864
miscue1889
snooker1889
break1893
break1893
scratch1909
to call one's shot1953
1860 O. W. Holmes Professor at Breakfast-table 67 She glanced from every human contact, and ‘caromed’ from one relation to another.
1883 Harper's Mag. Mar. 494/2 A single stone was made to ‘carom’.
1911 C. E. Mulford Bar-20 Days iv. 45 The table skidded through the door on one leg and carromed off the bar at a graceful angle.
1943 K. Tennant Ride on Stranger xvii. 193 It was here that Mrs. Brewster made the mistake..of caroming off a telegraph post into the ditch.
1946 H. Croome Faithless Mirror xviii. 192 The car lurched crazily..up the gully, caroming from side to side.
1952 B. Wolfe Limbo xix. 284 The phrase caromed through his mind.
1967 Boston Globe 18 May 36/8 Rockets carom to the moon.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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