backgammon

Speech parts

1. backgammon - Noun

2. backgammon - Verb

Meaning

A game of chance and skill, played by two persons on a "board" marked off into twenty-four spaces called "points". Each player has fifteen pieces, or "men", the movements of which from point to point are determined by throwing dice. Formerly called tables.

In the game of backgammon, to beat by ending the game before the loser is clear of his first "table".

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Examples

The only athletic sport I ever mastered was backgammon. Douglas William Jerrold

The only things I'm competitive in are backgammon and poker. Kate Hudson

I have mad luck. I'm super-good at games like backgammon or anything that requires rolling dice. Zoe Kazan

Acey-deucey is a variant of backgammon in which players start with no checkers on the board, and must bear them on at the beginning of the game. Source: Internet

Great Britain A Short Treatise on the Game of Back-Gammon, by Edmond Hoyle In the sixteenth century, Elizabethan laws and church regulations prohibited playing tables, but by the eighteenth century backgammon was popular among the English clergy. Source: Internet

Before the commercialization of neural network programs, proposition bets on specific positions were very common among backgammon players and gamblers. Source: Internet

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