carrom

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car⋅rom

[kar-uh

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–noun, verb (used without object)

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car⋅om

[kar-uh

–noun

1.	Billiards, Pool. a shot in which the cue ball hits two balls in succession.

2.	any strike and rebound, as a ball striking a wall and glancing off.

–verb (used without object)

3.	to make a carom.

4.	to strike and rebound.

Also, carrom.

Origin:
1770–80; by false analysis of carambole (taken as carom ball) < F < Sp carambola, special use of fruit name; see carambola

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Word Origin & History

carom (n.)

1779, from Sp. carombola "the red ball in billiards," originally an orange tropical Asian fruit supposed to resemble a red billiard ball, from Marathi (southern Indian) karambal. The verb is 1860, from the noun.

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