ricochet (v.) Look up ricochet at Dictionary.com
1758, originally in a military sense, from French ricochet (n.) "the skipping of a shot, or of a flat stone on water," in earliest use only in phrase fable du ricochet, an entertainment in which the teller of a tale skillfully evades questions, and chanson du ricochet, a kind of repetitious song; of uncertain origin. The noun is attested from 1769.