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noun

Gammon n. The buttock or thigh of a hog, salted and smoked or dried; the lower end of a flitch.

Gammon n.

Backgammon.

A victory in the game of backgammon in which one player gammons another, i. e., the winner bears off all of his pieces before his opponent bears off any pieces; as, he won the match with three gammons in a row.

An imposition or hoax; humbug. (Colloq.)

verb

Gammon v. t. (past & past part. gammoned; pres. part. gammoning) To make bacon of; to salt and dry in smoke.

Gammon v. t.

To beat in the game of backgammon, before an antagonist has been able to get his "men" or counters home and withdraw any of them from the board; as, to gammon a person. In certain variants of the game one who gammons an opponent scores twice the normal value of the game.

To impose on; to hoax; to cajole. (Colloq.)

Gammon v. t. (Naut.) To fasten (a bowsprit) to the stem of a vessel by lashings of rope or chain, or by a band of iron.

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... gone away from here, and has entrusted to me the most important concern of catering. Immortal Gods! how I shall now be slicing necks off of sides; how vast a downfall will befall the gammon [1]; how vast a belabouring the bacon! How great a using-up of udders, how vast a bewailing for the brawn! How great a bestirring for the butchers, how great a preparation for the porksellers! But if ...

— The Captiva and The Mostellaria • Plautus

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— Notes and Queries, No. 28. Saturday, May 11, 1850 • Various

... home on foot, I thought it was all gammon, To build a temple to the LORD Of curses ...

— Punchinello, Vol. II., No. 33, November 12, 1870 • Various

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