gamão — meaning in English
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English meaning
- backgammon noun A board game for two players who race fifteen pieces each around the board according to dice rolls, aiming to bear them all off first.
Senses
gamão is used for these senses in English:
- backgammon 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.
backgammon — full definition
- noun A board game for two players who race fifteen pieces each around the board according to dice rolls, aiming to bear them all off first.
- noun A win where the loser still has a piece in the winner's home row or on the bar — the biggest possible margin of victory.