gammon vs hip

gammon

verb
  • To beat by a gammon (without the opponent bearing off a stone). 

  • To lash with ropes (on a ship). 

  • To cure bacon by salting. 

noun
  • Backgammon (the game itself). 

  • A rope fastening a bowsprit to the stem of a ship (usually called a gammoning). 

  • A victory in backgammon achieved when the opponent has not borne off a single stone. 

  • A cut of quick-cured pork leg. 

  • A middle-aged or older right-wing, reactionary white man, or such men collectively. 

hip

verb
  • To throw (one's adversary) over one's hip ("cross-buttock"). 

  • To dislocate or sprain the hip of, to fracture or injure the hip bone of (a quadruped) in such a manner as to produce a permanent depression of that side. 

  • To inform, to make knowledgeable. 

  • To use one's hips to bump into someone. 

  • To make with a hip or hips, as a roof. 

adj
  • Aware, informed, up-to-date, trendy. 

intj
  • An exclamation to invoke a united cheer: hip hip hooray. 

noun
  • The fruit of a rose. 

  • The inclined external angle formed by the intersection of two sloping roof planes. 

  • The outward-projecting parts of the pelvis and top of the femur and the overlying tissue. 

  • In a bridge truss, the place where an inclined end post meets the top chord. 

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