Meanings
- uncountableA 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 one's own cue ball off both the opponent's cue ball and the object ball(s) on a single shot.
Synonyms: carambole billiards, carambole
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA 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 one's own cue ball off both the opponent's cue ball and the object ball(s) on a single shot.
Translations
Catalan billar de caramboles
- billar de carambolesfamily of billiards games
Czech karambol
- karambolfamily of billiards games
Danish bob
- bobfamily of billiards games
Finnish kara, karamboli
- karafamily of billiards games
- karambolifamily of billiards games
German Karambolagebillard
- Karambolagebillardfamily of billiards games
Polish karambol
- karambolfamily of billiards games
Cite this entry
carom billiards. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/carom%20billiards
“carom billiards.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/carom%20billiards. Accessed November 5, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “carom billiards,” accessed November 5, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/carom%20billiards.
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