| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| gammon1 |
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| SYLLABICATION: | gam·mon |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  g m  n |
| NOUN: | A victory in backgammon reached before the loser has succeeded in removing a single piece. | | TRANSITIVE VERB: | Inflected forms: gam·moned, gam·mon·ing, gam·mons
To defeat in backgammon by scoring a gammon. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Probably from Middle English gamen, gammen, game, from Old English gamen.
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