- carom billiards
- a game resembling billiards and depending on cannon shots for scoring.→ carom
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carom billiards
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Carom billiards — Carom billiards, sometimes called carambole billiards or simply carambole and, in some cases, used as a synonym for the game of straight rail from which many carom games derive, is the overarching title of a family of billiards games generally… … Wikipedia
carom billiards — ▪ game also called French billiards, game played with three balls (two white and one red) on a table without pockets, in which the object is to drive one of the white balls (cue ball) into both of the other balls. Each carom thus… … Universalium
carom billiards — noun plural but usually singular in construction : any of several games of billiards played with a cue and three balls on a pocketless table, points being scored by a player s causing the cue ball to carom from one object ball to another compare… … Useful english dictionary
carom billiards — noun A family of billiards games generally played on cloth covered, pocketless tables, which often feature heated slate beds, typically having as the objective to score points or counts by caroming ones own cue ball off both the opponents cue… … Wiktionary
Carom — may refer to: * Ricochet * Carom billiards * Carom seeds or Ajwain, a spiceee also* Carrom, a family of tabletop games * Caromb, a commune in Vaucluse, France … Wikipedia
billiards — billiardist, n. /bil yeuhrdz/, n. (used with a sing. v.) any of several games played with hard balls of ivory or of a similar material that are driven with a cue on a cloth covered table enclosed by a raised rim of rubber, esp. a game played with … Universalium
carom — [ karəm] chiefly N. Amer. noun 1》 a cannon shot in billiards or pool. 2》 (also carom billiards) a game resembling billiards and depending on cannon shots for scoring. verb make a carom. Origin C18: abbrev. of carambole, from Sp. carambola, appar … English new terms dictionary
Billiards World Cup Association — The Billiards World Cup Association (BWA) was a governing body for carom billiards, like its competitor and successor, Union Mondiale de Billard.After staging several three cushion billiards championships, BWA met its demise in 2004 due to… … Wikipedia
carom — car·om || kærÉ™m n. hitting of two balls in succession (Billiards); striking and bouncing back v. hit and bounce back (of a ball); make a carom (Billiards) … English contemporary dictionary
Carom — Car om, n. [Prob. corrupted fr. F. carumboler to carom, carambolage a carom, carambole the red ball in billiards.] (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… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
