[gam-uh
n] 
Backgammon.| 1. | the game of backgammon. |
| 2. | a victory in which the winner throws off all his or her pieces before the opponent throws off any. |
| 3. | to win a gammon over. |
[gam-uhn] | 1. | a smoked or cured ham. |
| 2. | the lower end of a side of bacon. |
[gam-uhn] British Informal.| 1. | deceitful nonsense; bosh. |
| 2. | to talk gammon. |
| 3. | to make pretense. |
| 4. | to humbug. |
| gam·mon 1 (gām'ən) n. A victory in backgammon reached before the loser has succeeded in removing a single piece. tr.v. gam·moned, gam·mon·ing, gam·mons To defeat in backgammon by scoring a gammon. [Probably from Middle English gamen, gammen, game, from Old English gamen.] |
| gam·mon 2 (gām'ən) n.
v. tr. To mislead by deceptive talk. v. intr. To talk misleadingly or deceptively. [Origin unknown.] gam'mon·er n. |
| gam·mon 3 (gām'ən) n.
[Middle English gambon, from Old North French, from gambe, leg, from Late Latin gamba, hoof; see gambol.] |
| gam·mon 4 (gām'ən) tr.v. gam·moned, gam·mon·ing, gam·mons To fasten (a bowsprit) to the stem of a ship. [Origin unknown.] |
| Shel·ta (shěl'tə) n. A secret jargon used by traditionally itinerant people in Great Britain and Ireland, based on systematic inversion or alteration of the initial consonants of Gaelic words. Also called Cant, Gammon. [From Shelta Sheldrū, perhaps alteration of Irish Gaelic béarla, language, English, from Old Irish bélrae, language, from bél, mouth.] |
