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noun

Ham n. Home. (North of Eng.)

Ham n.

(Anat.) The region back of the knee joint; the popliteal space; the hock.

The thigh of any animal; especially, the thigh of a hog cured by salting and smoking. "A plentiful lack of wit, together with most weak hams."

Ham n.

A person who performs in a showy or exaggerated style; used especially of actors. Also used attributively, as, a ham actor.

The licensed operator of an amateur radio station.

verb

Ham v. i. (Theater) To act with exaggerated voice and gestures; to overact.

ham it up to act in a showy fashion or to act so as to attract attention; to ham. (Colloq.)

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Etymology of 'Ham'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Ham" Quotes from Famous Books

... for a table, the grass to sit upon, and the bubbling music of the little stream that flowed from the spring as an accompaniment, the ham and bread and butter, the pickles and the hard-boiled eggs, and even the pie with its mysterious leather crust and its doubtful inside of dried peaches, tasted wonderfully well. We did not venture out ...

— Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, October, 1877, Vol. XX. No. 118 • Various

... spreading a cover of blue denim edged with white braid, which showed off the silver and the set of delft—her great and never-ending joy—to great effect. Then she tied her apron about her, and went into the kitchen to make the mayonnaise dressing for the potato salad, to slice the ham, and to help the cook (a most inefficient Irish person, taken on only for that month during the absence of the family's beloved and venerated Sing Wo) in the matter of preparing the Sunday ...

— Blix • Frank Norris

... ages was Bromwicham called, But historians, their readers to bam, Have Brom, Wich, and Ham so corrupted and maul'd, That their strictures ...

— Showell's Dictionary of Birmingham - A History And Guide Arranged Alphabetically • Thomas T. Harman and Walter Showell

... wagon for $25 to take us to the Casino, near Golden Gate Park, where we stayed Wednesday night. On Thursday morning we managed to get a conveyance at enormous cost and spent the entire day in getting to the Palace. We paid $1 apiece for eggs and $2 for a loaf of bread. On these and a little ham we had ...

— Complete Story of the San Francisco Horror • Richard Linthicum

... go first, when I have had One foot in the grave for hard on eleven-year! I little looked to taste her funeral ham. ...

— Krindlesyke • Wilfrid Wilson Gibson

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