Sekirov Dictionary

gammon

/ˈɡæmən/

noun 7
verb 5
adjective 1
forms 5
phrases 1

noun7

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A cut of quick-cured pork leg.
- I bake a piece of gammon that will be served both hot and, later, as cold cuts. — 2022
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(UK, offensive) A middle-aged or older right-wing, reactionary white man, or such men collectively.
- Yeah, let the bitch drown / Got the gammons all feeling sick now / Great Britannia's lost all hope, she's broke — 2022
A victory in backgammon achieved when the opponent has not borne off a single stone.
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(rare) Backgammon (the game itself).
- We started about 7:00 drinking beers and playing gammon. Then after getting a little “loose” we went to a girls dorm. — 2008
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(old-fashioned) Chatter, ridiculous nonsense.
- Some people maintains^([sic]) that an Englishman's house is his castle. That's gammon. — 1836
(dialect) A joke, trick; play, sport, merriment.
A rope fastening a bowsprit to the stem of a ship (usually called a gammoning).

verb5

(informal, old-fashioned) To deceive; to lie plausibly to.
To beat by a gammon (without the opponent bearing off a stone).
To cure bacon by salting.
(dialect) To joke, kid around, play.
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To lash with ropes (on a ship).
- “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.” — 1881

adjective1

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Fake, pretend; bullshit.
- I was just being gammon.

forms

gammoned · gammoning · gammons · more gammon · most gammon

Phrases with gammon

back gammon player
A person, chiefly a homosexual, who has anal sex.

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