Ricochet

Noun

 * 1)  A method of firing a projectile so that it skips along a surface.
 * 2) An instance of ricocheting; a glancing rebound.

Verb

 * 1) To rebound off something wildly in a seemingly random direction.

Thesaurus
backfire, backlash, backlashing, boomerang, bounce, bounce back, bound, bound back, cannon, cannon off, carom, contrecoup, dap, fly back, graze, have repercussions, kick, kick back, kickback, lash back, rebound, rebuff, recalcitrate, recalcitration, recoil, repercuss, repercussion, repulse, resile, resilience, skim, skip, snap back, spring, spring back

Etymology
From ricochet:.

Noun

 * Finnish:
 * French:


 * Icelandic: endurkast, skopp
 * Russian:

Verb

 * Finnish:
 * French: ricocher, faire ricochet


 * Icelandic: endurkastast, kastast frá, skoppa, fleyta kerlingar

Noun

 * 1) rebound; ricochet

Etymology
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: and Norman recoquet: has led to theories that the word originally indicated a "young cock".  The sense-development is unclear.