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bil⋅liard

  [bil-yerd]
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–adjective
1. of or used in billiards.
–noun
2. carom (def. 1).
Origin:
1630–40; < F billard cue, equiv. to bille stick (see billet 2 ) + -ard -ard
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bil·liard   (bĭl'yərd)   
adj.  Of, relating to, or used in billiards.
n.  See carom.
car·om   (kār'əm)   
n.  

  1. A collision followed by a rebound.

    1. A shot in billiards in which the cue ball successively strikes two other balls. Also called billiard.

    2. A similar shot in a related game, such as pool.

v.   car·omed, car·om·ing, car·oms

v.   intr.

  1. To collide and rebound; glance: The car caromed off the guardrail into the ditch.

  2. To make a carom, as in billiards.

v.   tr.
To cause to carom.

[Short for carambole, a stroke at billiards, from French, a billiard ball, from Spanish carambola, a stroke at billiards, perhaps from Portuguese, carambola; see carambola.]
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