gammon
/ˈɡæmən/
noun
- Meat from the hind leg of a pig that has been cured like bacon, often served cooked.
- We had gammon with eggs and pineapple for dinner.
- She bought a whole gammon joint to roast for the holiday meal.
- The sandwich was filled with thick slices of gammon and mustard.
- In the game of backgammon, a victory in which the loser has not removed any pieces from the board.
- She was close to winning, but her opponent managed a gammon.
- A gammon is a satisfying way to finish a game of backgammon.
- He won the match with a gammon, scoring double points.
- Nonsense or deceptive talk; humbug.
- She saw through his gammon and asked for the real facts.
- Don't listen to his gammon; he's just trying to confuse you.
- That story is pure gammon — none of it is true.
Synonyms
verb
- To cure or prepare meat (especially pork) as gammon.
- The recipe says to gammon the meat for three days before smoking.
- The butcher gammons the hams using a special brine.
- They learned how to gammon pork at the traditional cooking class.
- To talk nonsense or deceive with false talk.
- Stop gammoning me and tell me the truth.
- She realized he was gammoning when his story kept changing.
- He was gammoning the audience with exaggerated claims.
- In backgammon, to defeat an opponent by a gammon.
- If you gammon your opponent, you get double the points.
- She gammoned her friend in the final round of the tournament.
- He practiced for weeks to learn how to gammon more often.