0 to hit something and bounce back, especially at an angle:
1 in billiards or pool, an occasion when the ball hits two other balls one after the other:
2 a seed that is used as a spice, especially in South Asian cooking:
If you're not careful your ball will carom left off the severely sloped fairway into the rough.
After losing one of its propellers, the plane caroms off a neighbour's palm tree.
Vehicles striking the guardrails or sheer mountainsides can carom across the traffic lanes.
The kids grab their food and carom away in different directions.
Bounding about the stage, she caroms from girlish giddiness to boyish bluster and back again.
The plot caroms between the self-consciously camp and the unapologetically bizarre.
Sometimes two balls are extremely close to being at the correct angle for a carom but not quite.
The truckers have a transport office where they relax and play carom, a sort of cross between draughts and billiards.
