gammon
noun/ˈɡæmən/
/ˈɡæmən/
[uncountable] (British English)- meat from the back leg or side of a pig that has been cured (= preserved using salt or smoke), usually served in thick slices
- gammon steaks
Oxford Collocations DictionaryGammon is used before these nouns:- steak
Word Originlate 15th cent. (denoting the haunch of a pig): from Old Northern French gambon, from gambe ‘leg’.Definitions on the go
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