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What (who) is gammon - definition
WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
Gammon joint; Gammon (disambiguation)
gammon
Gammon is smoked or salted meat, similar to bacon, from the back leg or the side of a pig. (BRIT)
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Gammon
·noun An imposition or hoax; humbug.
II. Gammon ·noun Backgammon.
III. Gammon ·vt To make bacon of; to salt and dry in smoke.
V. Gammon ·noun The buttock or thigh of a hog, salted and smoked or dried; the lower end of a flitch.
VI. Gammon ·vt To fasten (a bowsprit) to the stem of a vessel by lashings of rope or chain, or by a band of iron.
VII. Gammon ·vt To beat in the game of backgammon, before an antagonist has been able to get his "men" or counters home and withdraw any of them from the board; as, to gammon a person.
gammon
I. n.
1.
Imposition, hoax, humbug. See cheat, n.
2.
Smoked ham, ham of bacon.
II. v. a.
1.
Deceive, cheat, humbug, hoax, chouse, trick, dupe, gull, cozen, overreach, outwit, bamboozle, circumvent, delude, beguile, mislead, inveigle, impose upon.
2.
Cure and smoke, convert into bacon.
3.
(Naut.) Lash (the bowsprit to the stem).
Examples of use of gammon
1. The apricot–glazed gammon was also good, but it tasted better hot.
2. Graham using the word "clitoris" and George with this forkful of gammon hovering in front of his open mouth.
3. Nonetheless, a handful of such firms, including Hindustan Construction, IVRCL Infrastructures, Nagarjuna Construction and Gammon India Ltd. were considering equity–raisings this year, a market source said.
4. It sucks the moisture right out of the ground." The wind, Nielsen–Gammon said, can be blamed on La Nina, which creates dry, warm winters and causes strong, drying winds from the southwest and west.
5. "We‘ve gotten so much rain this year, we‘ve pretty much made up for the past few years‘ drought conditions in several areas of the state," said John Nielsen–Gammon, the state‘s climatologist. · ANCHORAGE –– Sen.