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car⋅rom

  [kar-uhm]
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–noun, verb (used without object)
carom.
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car⋅om

  [kar-uhm]
–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.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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