- present participle of ham.
hamming
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Twenty minutes later, they are on stage rehearsing The Happy Dictator; followed by Shaun Ryder, hamming up his part on the 2005 classic Dare!
From BBC ● Jun. 21, 2026
Was it necessary to have the head coach of the Warriors and a former Bulls shooting guard hamming it up on the party’s biggest night?
From Slate ● Aug. 20, 2024
Was he hamming it up for the cameras?
From Salon ● Jul. 15, 2024
And in a brilliant bit of acting by Patrick Stewart, you can see that he’s hamming it up for the cadets.
From New York Times ● Mar. 9, 2023
Titters had begun at the way the girl playing Ismene was hamming it up.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
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