Backgammon

Quick meaning: Backgammon is a noun meaning To win at a backgammon game with the opponent having one or more pieces in the winner’s inner home row or on the bar.

Meaning

To win at a backgammon game with the opponent having one or more pieces in the winner’s inner home row or on the bar.

More Meanings

1. A board game for two players in which each has 15 stones which move between 24 triangular points according to the roll of a pair of dice; the object is to move all of one's pieces around, and bear them off the board.
2. (backgammon) A victory in the game when the loser has not borne off a stone, and still has one or more stones in the winner's inner home row or on the bar.

Example Sentences

"I have borrowed Mrs. Palmer's backgammon-board," said Isabella, whose notion of an elderly gentleman's amusements of an evening was derived from what she had seen Mr. Palmer do.

Word Forms

• backgammons
• backgammoning
• backgammoned

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include table, gammon, tables, backgame, point, stone.

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