noun
backgammon
BAK-gam-uhn
noun
1
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.
"They played backgammon on the porch every summer evening."
2
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.
"He won by a backgammon, tripling the stakes."
How to Use Backgammon
Learner’s notesIn plain EnglishA classic dice-and-board race game, or the term for its most decisive kind of win.
Common pairings
play backgammon
a game of backgammon
Word Forms
backgammoned past tense, backgammons plural, backgammons singular
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Etymology
Probably from back + an old word for "game."