September 2009
3 posts
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WotD
carom \KAIR-uhm, noun:
1. A rebound following a collision; a glancing off. 2. A shot in billiards in which the cue ball successively strikes two other balls on the table. 3. To strike and rebound; to glance.
Three blocks away, in the Rue des Jardiniers, four Moroccan children were kicking a filthy soccer ball up and down the street. It caromed off the parked cars, rolled into the gutter, was...