All ricochet synonyms
ric·o·chet
R r verb ricochet
- come home to roost — If bad or wrong things that someone has done in the past have come home to roost, or if their chickens have come home to roost, they are now experiencing the unpleasant effects of these actions.
- carom — a shot in which the cue ball is caused to contact one object ball after another
- hold off — to have or keep in the hand; keep fast; grasp: She held the purse in her right hand. He held the child's hand in his.
- bob — If something bobs, it moves up and down, like something does when it is floating on water.
- deflect — If you deflect something that is moving, you make it go in a slightly different direction, for example by hitting or blocking it.
- backfire — If a plan or project backfires, it has the opposite result to the one that was intended.
- cover up — If you cover something or someone up, you put something over them in order to protect or hide them.
- jump — to spring clear of the ground or other support by a sudden muscular effort; leap: to jump into the air; to jump out a window.
- glance — to look quickly or briefly.
- dancing — When people dance for enjoyment or to entertain others, you can refer to this activity as dancing.
- lollop — British Dialect. to loll; lounge.
- bounce — When an object such as a ball bounces or when you bounce it, it moves upwards from a surface or away from it immediately after hitting it.
- curvet — a low leap with all four feet off the ground
- graze — to touch or rub something lightly, or so as to produce slight abrasion, in passing: to graze against a rough wall.
- boomerang — A boomerang is a curved piece of wood which comes back to you if you throw it in the correct way. Boomerangs were first used by the people who were living in Australia when Europeans arrived there.
- backlashed — a sudden, forceful backward movement; recoil.
- backlashing — a sudden, forceful backward movement; recoil.
- bound — Bound is the past tense and past participle of bind.
- barged — a capacious, flat-bottomed vessel, usually intended to be pushed or towed, for transporting freight or passengers; lighter.
noun ricochet
- echo — a repetition of sound produced by the reflection of sound waves from a wall, mountain, or other obstructing surface.
- deflection — The deflection of something means making it change direction.