From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Gammon \Gam"mon\ (g[a^]m"m[u^]n), noun [See 2d {Game}.]
1. Backgammon.
2. A victory in the game of backgammon in which one player gammons another, i. e., the winner bears off all of his pieces before his opponent bears off any pieces; as, he won the match with three gammons in a row. [PJC]
3. An imposition or hoax; humbug. [Colloq.]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Gammon \Gam"mon\, verb (used with an object)
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. In certain variants of the game one who gammons an opponent scores twice the normal value of the game. [1913 Webster +PJC]
2. To impose on; to hoax; to cajole. [Colloq.] --Hood.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Gammon \Gam"mon\, verb (used with an object) [Etymol. unknown.] (Naut.) To fasten (a bowsprit) to the stem of a vessel by lashings of rope or chain, or by a band of iron. --Totten.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Gammon \Gam"mon\ (g[a^]m"m[u^]n), noun [OF. gambon, F. jambon, fr. OF. gambe leg, F. jambe. See {Gambol}, noun, and cf. {Ham}.] The buttock or thigh of a hog, salted and smoked or dried; the lower end of a flitch. --Goldsmith.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Gammon \Gam"mon\ (g[a^]m"m[u^]n), verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Gammoned} (g[a^]m"m[u^]nd); p. pr. & vb. n. {Gammoning}.] To make bacon of; to salt and dry in smoke.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
noun
1: meat cut from the thigh of a hog (usually smoked) [syn: {ham}, {jambon}]
2: hind portion of a side of bacon
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
156 Moby Thesaurus words for "gammon": absurdity, act, act a part, affect, amphigory, assume, babble, babblement, bacon, balderdash, balls, baloney, bamboozle, beguile, betray, bibble-babble, blabber, blague, blather, bluff, bombast, bosh, bull, bullshit, bunk, bunkum, butt, cajole, cheat on, chitterlings, circumvent, claptrap, cochon de lait, conjure, counterfeit, cover up, cracklings, crap, deceive, delude, diddle, dissemble, dissimulate, double-cross, double-talk, drivel, drool, dupe, eyewash, fake, fat back, feign, fiddle-faddle, fiddledeedee, flam, flimflam, flitch, flummery, folderol, forestall, four-flush, fudge, fustian, gabble, galimatias, get around, gibber, gibberish, gibble-gabble, gobbledygook, gull, ham, ham steak, haslet, headcheese, hoax, hocus-pocus, hogwash, hoke, hokum, hooey, hornswaggle, humbug, humbuggery, jabber, jambon, jambonneau, jargon, jiggery-pokery, juggle, lard, let down, let on, let on like, make a pretense, make as if, make believe, make like, mock, moonshine, mumbo jumbo, narrishkeit, niaiserie, nonsense, outmaneuver, outreach, outsmart, outwit, overreach, pack of nonsense, palaver, picnic ham, pieds de cochon, pig, pigeon, play, play a part, play one false, play possum, playact, pork, porkpie, prate, prattle, pretend, profess, put on, put something over, rant, rigamarole, rigmarole, rodomontade, rubbish, salt pork, sham, side of bacon, simulate, skimble-skamble, small ham, snow, sowbelly, string along, stuff and nonsense, stultiloquence, suckling pig, take in, trash, trick, trotters, trumpery, twaddle, twattle, twiddle-twaddle, two-time, vaporing, waffling
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