Definitions for ricochets

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ricochets ric·o·chet

Spelling: [rik-uh-shey, rik-uh-shey Ricochets is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 516 anagrams from letters in ricochets (ccehiorst).

Definitions for ricochets

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 ricochets

1760-70; French; origin uncertain

Examples for ricochets

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

The missile was deformed by ricochet before striking the bone.

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