backgammon
verbEtymology Probably from back + Middle English gamen, from Old English gamen (“amusement, game”).
1
To win at a backgammon game with the opponent having one or more pieces in the winner’s inner home row or on the bar.
backgammon
noun/ˈbæk.ɡæm.ən/
Etymology Probably from back + Middle English gamen, from Old English gamen (“amusement, game”).
1
A board game for two players in which each has 15 stones which move between 24 triangular points according to the roll of a pair of dice; the object is to move all of one's pieces around, and bear them off the board.
- "I have borrowed Mrs. Palmer's backgammon-board," said Isabella, whose notion of an elderly gentleman's amusements of an evening was derived from what she had seen Mr. Palmer do.1838 (date written), L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter VII, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], published 1842, →OCLC, page 90:
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Backgammon, Games A victory in the game when the loser has not borne off a stone, and still has one or more stones in the winner's inner home row or on the bar.
- Derived terms
- Dutch backgammon, Russian backgammon
- Related terms
- gammon, tick-tack, tric-trac, trick-track