gammon

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Couples who fail to convince are given a bit of gammon as a consolation prize and must walk through the town behind an empty chair.

From BBC • Jul. 13, 2024

Her ham in cola is a treasure of a dish that calls for boiling a gammon in two liters of Coca-Cola, with an onion chucked in for mellow savoriness.

From New York Times • Dec. 8, 2021

My mom was the kind of mom who’d make sticky buns from scratch on Christmas morning, and she’d have canned vegetables for the day months before, so we’d have fresh green beans with our gammon.

From The Guardian • Dec. 23, 2018

They say the bookie always wins - but in 1898 a mystery syndicate managed to gammon the establishment and make themselves a tidy sum with an audacious scam.

From BBC • Mar. 30, 2018

I should’ve just gone while I had the chance, but the dogs had prehistoric fangs, deranged eyes, gammon tongues, and steel chains round their necks.

From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell