backgammon

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[edit] English

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Probably from back + Middle English, Old English gamen (amusement)

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  • enPR: ʹbākgāmōn, IPA: /ˈbæk.gæm.ən/

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A backgammon board shown in starting position.

Singular
backgammon

Plural
uncountable

backgammon (uncountable)

  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.
  2. (backgammon) 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.

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[edit] Verb

Infinitive
to backgammon

Third person singular
backgammons

Simple past
backgammoned

Past participle
backgammoned

Present participle
backgammoning

to backgammon (third-person singular simple present backgammons, present participle backgammoning, simple past and past participle backgammoned)

  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.

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Borrowed from English

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  • IPA: /ˈbæk.gæm.ən/

[edit] Noun

backgammon m (usually uncountable)

  1. backgammon

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