Definition of "carom" [car•om]

• A collision followed by a rebound. (noun)
• A shot in billiards in which the cue ball successively strikes two other balls. Also called billiard. (noun)
• A similar shot in a related game, such as pool. (noun)
• To collide and rebound; glance: The car caromed off the guardrail into the ditch. (verb-intransitive)
• To make a carom, as in billiards. (verb-intransitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "But the word "carom" sparked an idea and an invention."
• "He poked his stick behind Kolzig's skate on the first one and wristed in a long carom from the goalie on the second."
• "But even after Paraguay forward Fredy Bareiro scored off a carom from the goalpost in the 67th minute, Iraq pressed hard with substitute Razzaq Farhan scoring in the 83rd."