backgammoner

Definitions

A player of backgammon.

Examples

“I strove to enlist the sympathies of the backgammoners and the crocheters, even the embroiderers, but in vain; I found with chagrin that I could not awaken one throb of interest⟳ in their unfeeling breasts, regarding my “geranium lady.””

“The castle arkwright put⟳ in a chequered staircase certainly. It has only one square step, to be steady, yet notwithstumbling are they stalemating backgammoner supstairs by skips and trestles tiltop double⟳ corner.”

“A young intercontinental crowd injects a bit of life into old backgammoners.”

“Numbers are somewhat diminished at breakfast—Peter and Ellen have⟳ their own⟳ table, so do the backgammoners, Liz is attending a bar mitzvah in Jerusalem, and Dan and Davide are at a wedding in Wales, so we just have⟳ Georgie, Janet, Hanna, and Ronnie.”

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