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[worksmart]

Hi,

I was watching CSI the other night. And they referred to a bullet that hurt a bystander, or a person the criminal was not intended to hurt as a "rickashay." How is that word spelled?

Thanks!

[redset]

Ricochet - it's borrowed from French and it means 'to hit a surface and bounce off', so the bullet must have hit an object and accidentally rebounded into the bystander.