ham
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Is ham a Scrabble word?
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What is the meaning of ham?
Definition
noun (English)
1. (anatomy) The region back of the knee joint; the popliteal space; the hock.countableuncountable
2. (countable) A thigh and/or buttock of a hog slaughtered for meat; (occasionally) the corresponding cut from some other animal.Examples: ""I'll have you so your hams will stand out like horse's shanks!" de declared."countable
3. (uncountable) Meat from the thigh and/or buttock of a hog cured for food.Examples: "a little piece of ham for the cat"; "She put some ham in the beans and cut up some sweet potatoes to boil."uncountable
4. (Internet, informal, uncommon) Electronic mail that is wanted; email that is not spam or junk mail.Synonyms: ham e-mailAntonyms: spam, junk mailInternetcountableinformaluncommonuncountable
noun (English)
1. (acting) An overacting or amateurish performer; an actor with an especially showy or exaggerated style.Examples: "Writing in The New Yorker in 2005, James Wood praised Mr. McCarthy as “a colossally gifted writer” and “one of the great hams of American prose, who delights in producing a histrionic rhetoric that brilliantly ventriloquizes the King James Bible, Shakespearean and Jacobean tragedy, Melville, Conrad, and Faulkner.”"Synonyms: hambone, hamfatter, overactor, tear-cat
2. (radio) An amateur radio operator.Synonyms: radio amateur
verb (English)
1. (acting) To overact; to act with exaggerated emotions.Examples: "Near-synonym: camp it up"Synonyms: ham it up#Verb, chew the scenery#Verb, melodramatize#Verb, overact#Verb, tear a cat#Verb
name (English)
1. (biblical) A son of Noah and the brother of Japheth and Shem.
name (English)
1. (computer graphics) Initialism of Hold-And-Modify, a display mode of the Commodore Amiga computer, allowing for a large number of colours on screen.abbreviationalt-ofinitialism
adv (English)
1. (chiefly African-American Vernacular) Initialism of hard as a motherfucker, extremely hard, extremely intensely, crazily.abbreviationalt-ofinitialism
Definition source: Wiktionary