backgammon
noun/ˈbækɡæmən/
/ˈbækɡæmən/
[uncountable]- a game for two people played on a board marked with long thin triangles. Players throw dice and move pieces around the board.Topics Games and toysc2Word Originmid 17th cent.: from back + gammon, mid 18th cent.: apparently from Old English gamen or gamenian (see game), with survival of the -n ending.
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