Gammon




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Gammon \Gam"mon\, v. t.

1. 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.
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2. To impose on; to hoax; to cajole. [Colloq.] --Hood.
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Gammon \Gam"mon\, v. t. [Etymol. unknown.] (Naut.)
To fasten (a bowsprit) to the stem of a vessel by lashings of
rope or chain, or by a band of iron. --Totten.
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Gammon \Gam"mon\ (g[a^]m"m[u^]n), n. [OF. gambon, F. jambon, fr.
OF. gambe leg, F. jambe. See Gambol, n., and cf. Ham.]
The buttock or thigh of a hog, salted and smoked or dried;
the lower end of a flitch. --Goldsmith.
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Gammon \Gam"mon\ (g[a^]m"m[u^]n), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Gammoned
(g[a^]m"m[u^]nd); p. pr. & vb. n. Gammoning.]
To make bacon of; to salt and dry in smoke.
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Gammon \Gam"mon\ (g[a^]m"m[u^]n), n. [See 2d Game.]

1. Backgammon.
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2. 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.
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3. An imposition or hoax; humbug. [Colloq.]
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gammon
n 1: meat cut from the thigh of a hog (usually smoked) [syn:
ham, jambon, gammon]

2: hind portion of a side of bacon
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gammon [gæmən]
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156 Moby Thesaurus words for "gammon":
absurdity, act, act a part, affect, amphigory, assume, babble,
babblement, bacon, balderdash, balls, baloney, bamboozle, beguile,
betray, bibble-babble, blabber, blague, blather, bluff, bombast,
bosh, bull, bullshit, bunk, bunkum, butt, cajole, cheat on,
chitterlings, circumvent, claptrap, cochon de lait, conjure,
counterfeit, cover up, cracklings, crap, deceive, delude, diddle,
dissemble, dissimulate, double-cross, double-talk, drivel, drool,
dupe, eyewash, fake, fat back, feign, fiddle-faddle, fiddledeedee,
flam, flimflam, flitch, flummery, folderol, forestall, four-flush,
fudge, fustian, gabble, galimatias, get around, gibber, gibberish,
gibble-gabble, gobbledygook, gull, ham, ham steak, haslet,
headcheese, hoax, hocus-pocus, hogwash, hoke, hokum, hooey,
hornswaggle, humbug, humbuggery, jabber, jambon, jambonneau,
jargon, jiggery-pokery, juggle, lard, let down, let on,
let on like, make a pretense, make as if, make believe, make like,
mock, moonshine, mumbo jumbo, narrishkeit, niaiserie, nonsense,
outmaneuver, outreach, outsmart, outwit, overreach,
pack of nonsense, palaver, picnic ham, pieds de cochon, pig,
pigeon, play, play a part, play one false, play possum, playact,
pork, porkpie, prate, prattle, pretend, profess, put on,
put something over, rant, rigamarole, rigmarole, rodomontade,
rubbish, salt pork, sham, side of bacon, simulate, skimble-skamble,
small ham, snow, sowbelly, string along, stuff and nonsense,
stultiloquence, suckling pig, take in, trash, trick, trotters,
trumpery, twaddle, twattle, twiddle-twaddle, two-time, vaporing,
waffling



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