Gammon

Quick meaning: Gammon is a noun meaning A cut of quick-cured pork leg.

Meaning

A cut of quick-cured pork leg.

More Meanings

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

Example Sentences

“Gammon, Pen—go on,” Foker said.

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

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

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

Synonyms for gammon

Depending on context, synonyms include ham, jambon.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include jambon, ham, td, picnic, guanciale, sidemeat.

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