carom billiards

English

Noun

carom billiards (uncountable)

1. A 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

Hypernyms

• billiards
• cue sport

Translations

family of billiards games

• Catalan: billar de caramboles (ca) m
• Czech: karambol (cs) m
• Danish: bob n
• Faroese: bobb n
• Finnish: kara (fi), karamboli (fi)
• German: Karambolagebillard n
• Macedonian: карамбол m (karambol)