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Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from Frenchricochet.
Pronunciation[edit]
- (UK)IPA(key): /ˈɹɪkəʃeɪ/, /ˈɹɪkəʃɛt/
- Rhymes: -eɪ
- Hyphenation: ric‧o‧chet
Noun[edit]
ricochet (pluralricochets)
- (military) A method of firing a projectile so that it skips along a surface.
- An instance of ricocheting; a glancing rebound.
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Verb[edit]
ricochet (third-person singular simple presentricochets, present participlericochetingorricochetting, simple past and past participlericochetedorricochetted)
- To rebound off something wildly in a seemingly random direction.
- 2018 June 24, Sam Wallace, 'Harry Kane scores hat-trick as England hit Panama for six to secure World Cup knock-out qualification,' Telegraph (UK) (retrieved 24 June 2018):
- Everything that could go right for England did although they never felt lucky and they chuckled at Kane’s third that ricocheted off his heel while he was looking the other way.
- 2018 June 24, Sam Wallace, 'Harry Kane scores hat-trick as England hit Panama for six to secure World Cup knock-out qualification,' Telegraph (UK) (retrieved 24 June 2018):
- (military) To operate upon by ricochet firing.
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Etymology[edit]
Origin uncertain.
- The word first appears in the phrases chanson du/de riochet, fable du ricochet. This is apparently related to other story-titles such as the fable du rouge kokelet; other dialectal terms such as ripoton(“duckling”) and Norman recoquet(“chick”) has led to theories that the word originally indicated a 'young cock'. The sense-development is unclear.
Pronunciation[edit]
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- IPA(key): /ʁi.kɔ.ʃɛ/
Noun[edit]

ricochetm (pluralricochets)
- rebound; ricochet
Further reading[edit]
- “ricochet” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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