caroming

This is a modified billiards table, covered with green baize, as is normal, but oval rather than rectangular and without pockets — a feature of carambola, where players score points by "caroming" their cue ball off the opponent's cue and object balls on a single shot.

Orozco Proves That Size Isn't Everything Paul Levy 2011

Starring screenwriter Diani as Richard Scarry, the nicest real estate agent to never sell a house, the film finds it's own quirky rhythm even as it's caroming wildly through a chain of sensibilities that run the gamut from The Ghost And Mr. Chicken and Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein to Scary Movie and Shaun Of The Dead.

Marc Hershon: The Selling: Little Charmer in a Good Neighborhood Marc Hershon 2011

They ran as fast as they could, caroming painfully against the walls, but the pursuing footsteps only grew louder.

The Omega Theory Mark Alpert 2011

There have been drifts from east to west and west to east, from north to south and back again, drifts that have criss-crossed one another, and drifts colliding and recoiling and caroming off in new directions.

THE HUMAN DRIFT 2010

The object of this miniaturized billiards was to get those wooden rings into the side pockets by caroming them off other rings or off the side rails.

A Simpler and Safer Time Recalled 2011

Franzen originally was credited with four goals in a span of 5: 36 in the first period, but in the first intermission Bertuzzi was awarded the first goal because Franzen's shot hit his thigh before caroming into the net.

Johan Franzen has four goals; Red Wings stay alive vs. Sharks 2010

Because it's almost as wide as the Taconic State Parkway, I thought I ran an even greater risk than usual of caroming off the roadway's guardrails and rock faces and spending the rest of my life in hock as I tried to repay Range Rover for the repairs.

Driving Like the Other Half Ralph Gardner Jr. 2010

I don't know how Nielsen even manages to measure late-night audiences if they're anything like me, caroming back and forth between Conan O'Brien, Mr. Letterman and Stephen Colbert at every commercial break.

Johnny-Come-Latelies Ralph Gardner Jr. 2011

Though vaguely conscious, he lay without movement while the ice tore by, great cakes of it caroming against the bank, uprooting trees, and gouging out earth by hundreds of tons.

Chapter VIII 2010

They ran as fast as they could, caroming painfully against the walls, but the pursuing footsteps only grew louder.

The Omega Theory Mark Alpert 2011