Meaning of Gammon | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A cut of quick-cured pork leg.
   countable, uncountable
2. A joke, trick; play, sport, merriment.
   countable, dialectal, uncountable
3. A rope fastening a bowsprit to the stem of a ship (usually called a gammoning).
4. Chatter, ridiculous nonsense.
   dated, uncountable
5. A middle-aged or older right-wing, reactionary white man, or such men collectively.
   UK, countable, derogatory, neologism, uncountable
6. the Shelta or Cant language of the Irish Travelling Community.
   Ireland
7. A victory in backgammon achieved when the opponent has not borne off a single stone.
   countable, uncountable
8. Backgammon (the game itself).
   countable, rare, uncountable

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Examples

“[T]he cooks were laying a refection before him of sack and anchovies and garlic sausage and gammons of bacon and - this was the important item - a great pudding dish out of which rose the noble dome of a crisp brown pie-crust.”

“I bake a piece of gammon that will be served both hot and, later, as cold cuts.”

“Toward the end of the game Roger had not borne off a single stone belonging to Roseanna, and she scored a gammon. She could not hide the triumph in her eyes. “Perhaps you will play a better game if we play for something closer to your heart,” she suggested.”

“We started about 7:00 drinking beers and playing gammon. Then after getting a little “loose” we went to a girls dorm.”

“Some people maintains^([sic]) that an Englishman's house is his castle. That's gammon.”

““Gammon, Pen—go on,” Foker said.”

“He swore that all other religions were gammon, / And wore out his knees in the worship of Mammon.”

“Yeah, let the bitch drown / Got the gammons all feeling sick now / Great Britannia's lost all hope, she's broke”

“I was expecting the Guardian to portray me as an old gammon and pair me up with some radical with coloured hair. Then she walked through the door with blue hair, which was rather amusing!”

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