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/ˈkæɹəm/ · noun
(countable, billiards) A shot in which the ball struck with the cue comes in contact with two or more balls on the table; a hitting of two or more balls with the player's ball..
He loved playing carom in his free time.
[T]he grubit bombs went rolling back and forth over our feet, fetching up against the sides of the car with a crash. The big Red Guard, whose name was Vladimir Nicolaievitch, plied me with questions about America […] while we held on to each other and danced amid the caroming bombs.
Snow filled her mouth. She caromed off things she never saw, tumbling through a cluttered canyon like a steel marble falling through pins in a pachinko machine.
Use carom when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Carom means (countable, billiards) A shot in which the ball struck with the cue comes in contact with two or more balls on the table; a hitting of two or more balls with the player's ball..
Common synonyms include cannon, glance, ricochet.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
He loved playing carom in his free time.
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