noun
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A method of firing a projectile so that it skips along a surface.
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An instance of ricocheting; a glancing rebound.
verb
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To rebound off something wildly in a seemingly random direction.
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To operate upon by ricochet firing.
Examples of ricochet in a Sentence
The bullet of your thought must have overcome its lateral and ricochet motion and fallen into its last and steady course before it reaches the ear of the hearer, else it may plow out again through the side of his head.
She came bouncing into the room like a ricochet shot.
He crashes it down and a few stray cement shards ricochet off the brick wall behind me.
Stumbling down the corridor they ricochet from wall to wall, a series of loud thumps marking their progress.
The gunfights have some nice details, especially the way Rosette 's bullets ricochet with a little crucifix spark.
They have monitors, but these are not very effective, nor are the echoes which ricochet around the hall.
Cox tried to pick his way through but an attempted clearance saw the ball ricochet off his legs.
Rich Payne pounced on Alex Mugan 's drilled cross, only to see his goalbound shot ricochet off a defender.
A very fortuitous ricochet fell to Hogg only 5 yards from goal.
The gunfights have some nice details, especially the way Rosette's bullets ricochet with a little crucifix spark.
Rich Payne pounced on Alex Mugan's drilled cross, only to see his goalbound shot ricochet off a defender.
Watch as the Hanenbows ricochet back and forth on the leaves and create a beautiful symphony of sound.
The Ricochet mode contains a bouncing rectangle with the game in the middle bouncing off the sides of the screen.