caromed
Glanced off something
Caromed is the past tense of carom, meaning to strike and rebound at an angle.
The word comes from billiards, where a carom is a shot in which the cue ball bounces off one ball into another.
The meaning extends to any ricocheting motion: The bullet caromed off the wall, He caromed through the crowd.
cue
Trigger for action
pocket · table · felt · rack · break · eight-ball · snooker · pool · masse · cue ball
bounce
Spring back after impact
redirect · angle · surface · wall · trajectory · impact · collision · glancing blow · tangent · banking
rebounding vs. stopping
caromedstopped
Brought to a halt
halted · stuck · lodged · embedded · stopped dead