Crossword-Solution: RICOCHET
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Ricochet | n. | A rebound or skipping, as of a ball along the ground when a gun is fired at a low angle of elevation, or of a fiat stone thrown along the surface of water. |
| Ricochet | v. t. | To operate upon by ricochet firing. See Ricochet, n. |
| Ricochet | v. i. | To skip with a rebound or rebounds, as a flat stone on the surface of water, or a cannon ball on the ground. See Ricochet, n. |
We have 31 clues for the answer “RICOCHET”
| Clue | Answers |
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| a glancing rebound | 1 answer |
| Rebounding shot | 1 answer |
| Rebound at an angle | 1 answer |
| One almost killed Ronald Reagan | 1 answer |
| Glancing bullet | 1 answer |
| Carom off | 1 answer |
| Bullet bounce | 1 answer |
| BULLET, bounce of | 1 answer |
| BOUNCE of bullet | 1 answer |
| *Bounce (4 & 4) | 1 answer |
| GLANCING rebound | 2 answers |
| glance off | 4 answers |
| Carom | 8 answers |
| BOUNCE OFF THE WALL | 10 answers |
| Spring Back | 16 answers |
| Reverberation | 21 answers |
| jounce | 27 answers |
| Backfire | 27 answers |
| BOUNCE off | 34 answers |
| Rever-berate | 36 answers |
| Graze | 36 answers |
| -- glance | 41 answers |
| Skip __ | 43 answers |
| Reflect | 43 answers |
| Backlash | 44 answers |
| Rebound | 47 answers |
| Bounce Back | 49 answers |
| Deflect | 54 answers |
| Recoil | 71 answers |
| Echo | 81 answers |
| Bounce | 85 answers |
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Sentences with RICOCHET (5)
Scott cringed, awaiting the worst but instead heard the bullet ricochet off a metal object above him.
The ping of the bullet and the scream of the ricochet warned the man and the girl that those behind them were becoming desperate—the bullet had struck one of the rear fenders.
Our intention and endeavour should be directed, not on some vague end of money or applause, which shall come to us by a ricochet in a month or a year, or twenty years, but on the act itself; not on the approval of others, but on the rightness of that act.
The man, you will perceive, was making reminiscences—a sort of pleasure by ricochet, which comforts many in distress, and turns some others into sentimental libertines: and the whole book, if you will but look at it in that way, is seen to be a work of art to Pepys’s own address.
The last bullet of all, making a double ricochet from two different trees and losing most of its momentum, struck Sheldon a sharp blow on the forehead and dropped at his feet.
Quotes with RICOCHET (3)
How can you ricochet from a moment where you are on top of the world to one where you are crawling at rock bottom
Time changed in an instant. One minute, you’re drinking a beer with your friends, talking about the increasingly scary storm outside; the next, you’re flying through the air with your body slamming into the nearest wall when lightning strikes. Or rather, when lightning strikes inside the room and hits you and six of your friends dead center. Eliana Sawyer’s life changed the moment she felt the energy of the gods ricochet through her body. The world as she knew it became grey,…
The very next day after Miss West and I’d talked about her son and missions, she was the same as she’d always been: volatile and unhappy with a hatred that spewed out of her like missiles. I thought I understood why. She must have hated us for being alive when her son was dead. Lately the class has been turning against her. They’re openly hostile, and they whisper plots for revenge. It seems unfair, the way unhappiness flows out of a person, just to ricochet. “Adam…do you thi…
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYT, Slate, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 20 times in crossword archives (1998–2023).