Gammon
English Meaning
The buttock or thigh of a hog, salted and smoked or dried; the lower end of a flitch.
- A victory in backgammon reached before the loser has succeeded in removing a single piece.
- To defeat in backgammon by scoring a gammon.
- Misleading or nonsensical talk; humbug.
- See Shelta.
- To mislead by deceptive talk.
- To talk misleadingly or deceptively.
- A cured or smoked ham.
- The lower part of a side of bacon.
- To fasten (a bowsprit) to the stem of a ship.