1
chiefly British
: ham sense 2
2
chiefly British
a
: a side of bacon
b
: the lower end of a side of bacon
1
archaic
: backgammon
2
: the winning of a backgammon game before the loser removes any men from the board
gammoned; gammoning; gammons
: talk intended to deceive
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Examples of gammon in a Sentence
Verb (2)
good-hearted contributors have been gammoned into believing that most of the charity's funds go to the needy and not into the pockets of the administrators
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Noun
Her ham in cola is a treasure of a dish that calls for boiling a gammon in two liters of Coca-Cola, with an onion chucked in for mellow savoriness.
—New York Times, 8 Dec. 2021
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“Gammon.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gammon. Accessed 22 Nov. 2024.
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