the buttock or thigh of a hog, salted and smoked or dried; the lower end of a flitch.-to make bacon of; to salt and dry in smoke.-backgammon.-an imposition or hoax; humbug.-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.-to impose on; to hoax; to cajole.-to fasten (a bowsprit) to the stem of a vessel by lashings of rope or chain, or by a band of iron.