meat from the back leg or side of a pig that has been cured (= preserved using salt or smoke), usually served in thick slices 腌猪后腿;熏腿;熏猪肋肉 gammon steaks 火腿肉片
Oxford Collocations DictionaryGammon is used before these nouns:- steak
Word Originlate 15th cent. (denoting the haunch of a pig): from Old Northern French gambon, from gambe ‘leg’.