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ham

[ham] / hæm /
NOUN
one who overacts
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We have the summer season passes and we just go ham.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026

Last year Dillon Green, one of the organisers at Marymass, told BBC Scotland News the ham had originally been the prize so it could "feed the poor of the town".

From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2026

Within weeks Masino pulled a U-turn, dumping the new logo, dropping the marketing firm behind it and pausing restaurant remodels, bringing back proven sellers like campfire meals and ham dinners.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026

Grab a pineapple bun stuffed with ham and butter, a corned beef egg tart, a sourdough one, even pistachio.

From Salon ● Aug. 9, 2026

My yogurt, a ham sandwich, dried apricots, Cheddar Bunnies, and water.

From "Invisible Inkling" by Emily Jenkins

ChatGPT said she’d need to make two turkeys, two hams and six pies to feed all those guests.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 25, 2025

There is a pleasing calm to her delivery that stands out in a scene of fidgety hams.

From New York Times ● Mar. 26, 2024

However, certain types of ham products – especially highly processed or cured hams – are less healthy options for several reasons:

From Salon ● Feb. 14, 2024

It said appetite for traditional Christmas dinner items was particularly strong in 2023, with volumes of parsnips, sprouts and potatoes up, along with festive meats including pigs in blankets, sausages, hams and turkeys.

From BBC ● Jan. 3, 2024

Piper didn’t understand how all that stuff could fit through the entrance of the horn, but she thought the hams were especially appropriate.

From "The Mark of Athena" by Rick Riordan

They played to the paparazzi, vamping at high-profile events including the Kentucky Derby and the White House Correspondents’ Assn. dinner, and hammed it up in “caught off-guard” moments at the supermarket or over lunch.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 18, 2026

Now their AI capability, however obscure, is hammed up.

From BBC ● Jan. 12, 2024

We don’t know if Nguyễn Phú Trọng, general secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam, was briefed on the age discussion in advance, but he really hammed it up for the press.

From Slate ● Sep. 11, 2023

Janie Dee hammed up “The Boy From …” a parody of “The Girl from Ipanema.”

From Seattle Times ● May 3, 2022

In the ring Woody’s smile looked sly and crafty; he hammed it up.

From "Farewell to Manzanar" by Jeanne Houston

Equally, you might not have believed her for a second, and thought she was hamming up her pain because it's all gone wrong.

From BBC ● May 31, 2026

The 450-pound porker wandered from his pen last week then moseyed on down the road, where he was caught hamming it up on the Molgaard family’s security camera.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 6, 2024

More than that, he seems to relish it, hamming it up as the babies reach out to touch him.

From Slate ● Jun. 24, 2023

They put them on and dashed to the front of the stage, smiling and hamming it up for the finale: a class picture.

From New York Times ● Jun. 11, 2023

She was hamming it up a bit, but that was fine, and so was her hoarse whisper.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan


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