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▸ verb: To cure bacon by salting.
▸ verb: (dialectal) To joke, kid around, play.
▸ verb: (backgammon) To beat by a gammon (without the opponent bearing off a stone).
▸ noun: (dialectal) A joke, trick; play, sport, merriment.
▸ noun: (backgammon) A victory in backgammon achieved when the opponent has not borne off a single stone.
▸ noun: (rare) Backgammon (the game itself).
▸ noun: (nautical) A rope fastening a bowsprit to the stem of a ship (usually called a gammoning).
▸ verb: To lash with ropes (on a ship).
▸ noun: (dated) Chatter, ridiculous nonsense.
▸ verb: (colloquial, dated, transitive) To deceive; to lie plausibly to.
▸ adjective: (Papua New Guinea, Australian Aboriginal, chiefly Queensland, Northern Territory) Fake, pretend; bullshit.
▸ noun: (neologism, derogatory, UK) A middle-aged or older right-wing, reactionary white man, or such men collectively.
▸ noun: (Ireland) the Shelta or Cant language of the Irish Travelling Community.
Similar:
jambon,
ham,
mutton ham,
picnic,
bacon square,
guanciale,
sidemeat,
charcuterie,
bacon,
long pork,
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Types:
smoked gammon,
unsmoked gammon,
cooked gammon,
raw gammon,
ham gammon,
steak gammon,
roast gammon,
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