Meaning

A cut of quick-cured pork leg..

Definitions by Sense

1. A cut of quick-cured pork leg.
2. To cure bacon by salting.
3. (dialectal) To joke, kid around, play.
4. (backgammon) To beat by a gammon (without the opponent bearing off a stone).
5. (dialectal) A joke, trick; play, sport, merriment.
6. (backgammon) A victory in backgammon achieved when the opponent has not borne off a single stone.
7. (rare) Backgammon (the game itself).
8. (nautical) A rope fastening a bowsprit to the stem of a ship (usually called a gammoning).

Example Sentences

[T]he cooks were laying a refection before him of sack and anchovies and garlic sausage and gammons of bacon and - this was the important item - a great pudding dish out of which rose the noble dome of a crisp brown pie-crust.

I bake a piece of gammon that will be served both hot and, later, as cold cuts.

Toward the end of the game Roger had not borne off a single stone belonging to Roseanna, and she scored a gammon. She could not hide the triumph in her eyes. “Perhaps you will play a better game if we play for something closer to your heart,” she suggested.

We started about 7:00 drinking beers and playing gammon. Then after getting a little “loose” we went to a girls dorm.

“No, by thunder !” he cried, “it's us must break the treaty when the time comes; and till then I'll gammon that doctor, if I have to ile his boots with brandy.”

Some people maintains^([sic]) that an Englishman's house is his castle. That's gammon.

“Gammon, Pen—go on,” Foker said.

He swore that all other religions were gammon, / And wore out his knees in the worship of Mammon.

Word Forms

• gammons
• gammoning
• gammoned
• gamen
• gammen
• gammin
• gamon
• more gammon
• most gammon

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Use gammon when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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