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  1. 1. n. The buttock or thigh of a hog, salted and smoked or dried; the lower end of a flitch. Source: opted
  2. 2. v. t. To make bacon of; to salt and dry in smoke. Source: opted
  3. 3. n. Backgammon. Source: opted
  4. 4. n. An imposition or hoax; humbug. Source: opted
  5. 5. v. t. 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. Source: opted
  6. 6. v. t. To impose on; to hoax; to cajole. Source: opted
  7. 7. v. t. To fasten (a bowsprit) to the stem of a vessel by lashings of rope or chain, or by a band of iron. Source: opted
  8. 8. n. meat cut from the thigh of a hog (usually smoked) Source: wordnet
  9. 9. n. hind portion of a side of bacon Source: wordnet
  10. 10. The buttock or tight of a hog, salted and smoked or dried; the lower end of a flitch. Goldsmith. To make bacon of; to salt and dry in smoke. 1. Backgammon. 2. An imposition or hoax; humbug. [Colloq.] 1. 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. 2. To impose on; to hoax; to cajole. [Colloq.] Hood. To fasten (a bowsprit) to the stem of a vessel by lashings of rope or chain, or by a band of iron. Totten. Source: webster
  11. 11. The buttock or tight of a hog, salted and smoked or dried; thelower end of a flitch. Goldsmith. Source: adambom
  12. 12. n. hind portion of a side of bacon Source: ecdict

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