carom

noun

1. (countable)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.
2. (uncountable)A billiard-like Indian game in which players take turns flicking checker-like pieces into one of four goals on the corners of a board measuring one meter by one meter.

   “He loved playing carom in his free time.”

3. (uncountable)Ajwain.

verb

1. (intransitive)To make a carom (shot in billiards).
2. To strike and bounce back; to strike (something) and rebound.

   “[T]he grubit bombs went rolling back and forth over our feet, fetching up against the sides of the car with a crash. The big Red Guard, whose name was Vladimir Nicolaievitch, plied me with questions about America […] while we held on to each other and danced amid the caroming bombs.”

   “Snow filled her mouth. She caromed off things she never saw, tumbling through a cluttered canyon like a steel marble falling through pins in a pachinko machine.”