They are addicted to online backgammon and trying to lure me into playing too.
gammon (GAM-uhn) noun
1. Backgammon.
2. A victory in a backgammon game before the loser has removed any piece.
[Probably from Middle English gamen (game).]
3. A cured or smoked ham.
4. The bottom piece of a side of bacon.
[From Old French gambon (ham), from gambe (leg), from Late Latin gamba
(hoof), from Greek kampe (bend).]
verb tr., intr.
To deceive or to fool.
[Of uncertain origin, perhaps from the game of backgammon.]
From A Word A Day
1 comment:
OK. I am addicted to backgammon, but I do not understand the "online" fixation. Playing backgammon ilst sitting at a hookah bar or cafe and rolling real dice... this I see. But online?
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