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Carom   Listen
noun
Carom  n.  (Billiards) A shot in which the ball struck with the cue comes in contact with two or more balls on the table; a hitting of two or more balls with the player's ball. In England it is called cannon.


verb
Carom  v. i.  (Billiards) To make a carom.





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"Carom" Quotes from Famous Books



... to the reverse English carom Sadie takes after we'd got into a cab and started for her hotel. Was there a jolly for me, or a "Thank you, Shorty, I've had the time of my life?" Nothin' like it. She just slumped into her corner and switched on the boo-hoos like a girl that's been ...
— Shorty McCabe • Sewell Ford
... nimble with mace or cue; at the billiard-table, it is hinted, he can distinguish a kiss from a carom; at the sideboard (and here, if I were Mr. Charles Reade, I would whisper, in small type) he confounds not cocktails with cobblers; when, being in trade, he would sell you saltpetre, he tries you with flax-seed; when he would ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. II, No. 8, June 1858 • Various


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