Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To rebound at least once from a surface.
- noun The act or an instance of ricocheting.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The motion of an object which rebounds from a flat surface over which it is passing, as in the case of a stone thrown along the surface of water.
- To bound by touching the earth or the surface of water and glancing off, as a cannon-ball.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A rebound or skipping, as of a ball along the ground when a gun is fired at a low angle of elevation, or of a fiat stone thrown along the surface of water.
- noun (Mil.) the firing of guns or howitzers, usually with small charges, at an elevation of only a few degrees, so as to cause the balls or shells to bound or skip along the ground.
- transitive verb rare To operate upon by ricochet firing. See
ricochet , n. - intransitive verb To skip with a rebound or rebounds, as a flat stone on the surface of water, or a cannon ball on the ground. See
ricochet , n.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun military A method of firing a
projectile so that it skips along a surface. - noun An instance of
ricocheting ; aglancing rebound. - verb To
rebound off something wildly in a seemingly random direction.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb spring back; spring away from an impact
- noun a glancing rebound
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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One cannot help jumping when death, in the form of a piece of flying lead, hits the rail beside him, or the mast over his head, or whines away in a ricochet from the steel shrouds.
CHAPTER XLVII 2010
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For a dozen heartbeats Ferrol stared at the display, listening to the word ricochet around his brain.
Warhorse Zahn, Timothy 1990
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One cannot help jumping when death, in the form of a piece of flying lead, hits the rail beside him, or the mast over his head, or whines away in a ricochet from the steel shrouds.
Chapter 47 1914
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I was still hearing Acer's name ricochet around the inside of my head.
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Q: Earlier this year you said you'd prefer the secondary be referred to as ricochet rather than toast.
Inside the Panthers 2008
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I just didn't understand that the ricochet is the second part you can't hide what you intend, it glows in the dark once you start the path of revenge there's no way to stop the more I try to hurt you the more it hurts me strange, it seems like a character mutation though I have all the means of bringing you fuckers down
Killing the Buddha 2009
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I just didn't understand that the ricochet is the second part you can't hide what you intend, it glows in the dark once you start the path of revenge there's no way to stop the more I try to hurt you the more it hurts me strange, it seems like a character mutation though I have all the means of bringing you fuckers down
Killing the Buddha David Griffith 2009
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I just didn't understand that the ricochet is the second part you can't hide what you intend, it glows in the dark once you start the path of revenge there's no way to stop the more I try to hurt you the more it hurts me strange, it seems like a character mutation though I have all the means of bringing you fuckers down
Killing the Buddha 2009
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The angle of fire produces only a rare ricochet which is caught by the aforementioned dirt hill.
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The senator says he'll now "ricochet" among South Carolina, Iowa and New Hampshire, starting with a Southern swing next week.
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