intransitive verb (Billiards) To make a carom.To strike or collide against a thing and then rebound or glance off again cannon: usually with on, and common in racing slang: as, Eclipse caromed on High-flyer and injured his chance of winning.įrom the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
In billiards, to make a carom (which see).noun In billiards, the hitting of two or three balls in succession by the cue-ball from one stroke of the cue: in Great Britain sometimes called cannon.intransitive verb To make a carom, as in billiards.intransitive verb To collide and rebound glance.noun A similar shot in a related game, such as pool.
From The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
