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backgammon

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Backgammon is one of the oldest board games known. It is a two player game where playing pieces are moved according to the roll of dice , and a player wins by removing all of his pieces from the board before their opponent. Backgammon is a member of the ...

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ For the rest of the evening they concentrated on backgammon , pushing dimes back and forth across the kitchen table. ▪ If it rained they lolled in the library, playing cards and backgammon . ▪ One of the most popular sites is ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
backgammon \back"gam`mon\, n. [Origin unknown; perhaps fr. Dan. bakke tray + E. game; or very likely the first part is from E. back, adv., and the game is so called because the men are often set back.] A game of chance and skill, played by two persons on ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. a board game for two players; pieces move according to throws of the dice

Usage examples of backgammon.

I saw him so often in the course of the evening, which passed very pleasantly, contemplate Richard and Ada with an interest and a satisfaction that made his fine face remarkably agreeable as he sat at a little distance from the piano listening to the music--and he had small occasion to tell us that he was passionately fond of music, for his face showed it--that I asked my guardian as we sat at the backgammon board whether Mr.

So what with working and housekeeping, and lessons to Charley, and backgammon in the evening with my guardian, and duets with Ada, the three weeks slipped fast away.

As for himself, he said that he lived by playing backgammon, though he was not at all lucky at it, as talent went for more than luck at that game.

I was sufficiently engaged during the remainder of the evening in taking my first lesson in backgammon from Mr. Jarndyce, who was very fond of the game and from whom I wished of course to learn it as quickly as I could in order that I might be of the very small use of being able to play when he had no better adversary.

I saw him so often in the course of the evening, which passed very pleasantly, contemplate Richard and Ada with an interest and a satisfaction that made his fine face remarkably agreeable as he sat at a little distance from the piano listening to the music--and he had small occasion to tell us that he was passionately fond of music, for his face showed it--that I asked my guardian as we sat at the backgammon board whether Mr. Boythorn had ever been married.

It was certainly odd that the one the Fagan woman had seen should present three spots so like those on the other paper, but people did sometimes throw treys at backgammon, and that which not rarely happened with two dice of six faces might happen if they had sixty or six hundred faces.

Afterward, he stopped to play backgammon at a coffee house in Greektown.

The clicking of backgammon dice filled his ears as he pressed the accelerator.

The diamonds of the backgammon board undulated like player piano keys.

Our old backgammon set came out from under a stack of board games, and a few of the older women began to count their worry beads.

Some were already up this morning, drinking coffee, playing backgammon, and reading the Greek newspapers.

I would be dutiful, I thought, and spend Christmas with my mother in Jersey, as she wanted, and we would laugh and play backgammon, and I would sadden her as usual by bringing no girlfriend, no prospective producer of little brutes.

When the wife has educated the husband to such a point that she can invite him to work out a problem in the higher mathematics or to perform a difficult chemical analysis with her as his collaborator, as less instructed dames ask their husbands to play a game of checkers or backgammon, they can have delightful and instructive evenings together.

With most men life is like backgammon, half skill, and half luck, but with him it was like chess.

With no expense spared, Fuad fed caviar and foie gras to jet-setting friends from his hobby worlds of backgammon, night clubs and horseracing.