noun
- The hind leg of a pig, salted and smoked or cured for food; ham.
- In backgammon, a victory in which one player removes all pieces before the opponent removes any.
Usage: gaming
verb
- To win a game of backgammon by a gammon.
- To deceive or mislead with false talk; to humbug.
Usage: gaming
Usage: informal; chiefly British
Examples
- We had roasted gammon for Sunday dinner.
- She achieved a gammon in the final round of the backgammon tournament.
- He tried to gammon his way out of trouble with excuses.
- The butcher sells both bacon and gammon from the pork leg.
- Don't let him gammon you with that story—it's not true.
- In backgammon, a gammon is worth twice as many points as a regular win.