Definitions for ricochet

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ricochet ric·o·chet

Spelling: [rik-uh-shey, rik-uh-shey Ricochet is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 246 anagrams from letters in ricochet (ccehiort).

Definitions for ricochet

noun

1. the motion of an object or a projectile in rebounding or deflecting one or more times from the surface over which it is passing or against which it hits a glancing blow.

verb (used without object)

1. to move in this way, as a projectile.

Origin of ricochet

1760-70; French; origin uncertain

Examples for ricochet

Henceforward I could only learn, as it were, by ricochet what was going on.

At the same time, there are those who ricochet between denial and rationalization.

So I tache, as they say at musketry-instruction, by direct and ricochet fire.

Overnight, a bar owner was shot in the leg by a ricochet bullet.

Perhaps he had mistaken it for the ricochet of a round shot.

The similarity of this bullet to that seen in the ricochet in fig. 32 was exact.

The nose of the bullet is slightly deformed by ricochet at long range.

But there has been an accident, a ricochet off one of those rocks.

Effect of ricochet in the production of severe forms of injury.

The missile was deformed by ricochet before striking the bone.