HAM


Meaning of HAM in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ hæm ]

( hams, hamming, hammed)

1.

Ham is meat from the top of the back leg of a pig, specially treated so that it can be kept for a long period of time.

...ham sandwiches.

N-VAR

2.

If actors or actresses ham it up , they exaggerate every emotion and gesture when they are acting, often deliberately because they think that the audience will be more amused.

Thrusting themselves into the spirit of the farce, they ham it up like mad.

PHRASE : V inflects

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