Today's Word "carom"
A rebound following a collision
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carom \KAIR-uhm\ (noun) - 1 : A rebound following a collision; a glancing off. 2 : A shot in billiards in which the cue ball successively strikes two other balls on the table.
(intransitive verb) - 1 : To strike and rebound; to glance. 2 : To make a carom.
(transitive verb) - 1 : To make (an object) bounce off something; to cause to carom.
"Arriving home after a night spent drinking, unable to even work the light switch, Delbert bounced about the room, caroming against seemingly every piece of furniture, before collapsing drunkenly on the unmade bed."
Carom derives from obsolete carambole, from Spanish carambola, "a stroke at billiards."