backgammon Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a board game for two players; pieces move according to throws of the dice

WordNet

Back"gam`mon noun
Etymology
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.
Definitions
  1. A game of chance and skill, played by two persons on a "board" marked off into twenty-four spaces called "points". Each player has fifteen pieces, or "men", the movements of which from point to point are determined by throwing dice. Formerly called tables.
Back"gam`mon intransitive verb
Definitions
  1. In the game of backgammon, to beat by ending the game before the loser is clear of his first "table".

Webster 1913