I. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a bullet bounces/ricochets off sth (= hits something and moves away from it again )
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The bullet ricocheted off a wall.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
off
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If it travelled up into the skull it might ricochet off the skull table and bed itself in the bone.
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It looks lovely right up until it ricochets off the backboard.
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If the ball lands directly on the green it will just ricochet off over the nearest iceberg.
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They started whirring up all around like little firecrackers and ricocheting off the windshield by the dozen.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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A bullet ricocheted off the rock he was hiding behind.
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I heard the shot ricochet , then felt a sudden pain in my leg.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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After ricocheting from one emotional moment to another today, she was now face to face with possible disaster.
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At one point, laughing, they fired off a couple of rounds, ricocheting the bullets against a wall.
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Every day, billions of dollars ricochet around in the globalized economy.
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I fled to my bedroom, terror, indignation, and confusion ricocheting in me.
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If it travelled up into the skull it might ricochet off the skull table and bed itself in the bone.
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It looks lovely right up until it ricochets off the backboard.
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The distributed mass of ricocheting impulses which form the foundation of intelligence forbid deterministic results for a given starting point.
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What agriculture fires at nature ricochets back, and the injury is great.
II. noun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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He was hit by a ricochet .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A few ricochets have made all the difference.
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He heard the clang of metal on metal, and a ricochet whined viciously past his head.
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Modern fashion writers interpret this hemline ricochet with sociological spins.
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This ricochet process is normal enough.