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ham

[ham] / hæm /
NOUN
one who overacts
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Among them were Tamburella's refusal to provide ham and pineapple pizza for guests at a function.

From BBC ● Nov. 5, 2026

The breadcrumbs were meant to become a crunchy, buttery topping for a baked pasta with Parmesan, peas and ham.

From Salon ● Oct. 25, 2026

We have the summer season passes and we just go ham.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026

Michelle Monaghan, always good, is also among the cast, as homicide detective Amanda Beck, though she lays low enough to duck all the free-floating ham in this adaptation of Alex North’s 2019 novel.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026

Last night George had eaten two plates of roast beef, veal and ham pie, carrots sweet as candy, and a mysterious dessert called meringue pudding.

From "I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912" by Lauren Tarshis

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

Many commercially available hams, especially highly processed and cured varieties, can be high in sodium, which is salt.

From Salon ● Feb. 14, 2024

"This is a particular worry as we enter the busiest period of the year in the run up to Christmas when our members are preparing festive products like hams and pigs-in-blankets."

From BBC ● Oct. 28, 2023

While she slumped on a bench near the barbecue drum, I stepped through the screen door into the mingled smells of pick- led eggs and sawdust, beneath dozens of sugar-cured hams dangling from the ceiling.

From "The Secret Life of Bees" by Sue Monk Kidd

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

The last part was hammed up a bit; lacking a controlling stake doesn’t automatically equate to no influence on decisions.

From Slate ● Dec. 12, 2024

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

From BBC ● Jan. 12, 2024

During a six-week election campaign, both Hipkins and Luxon traveled the country and hammed it up for the cameras.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 13, 2023

Several sailors did imitations of Cockney boys begging for a treat as Marston hammed it up as an ice cream vendor.

From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong

Drummer Joel Amey punctures the pomposity during The Sofa - hamming up his accent as he sings about feeling "stuck in Seven Sisters, Norf Lahn-dan".

From BBC ● Jul. 6, 2026

During the six-week campaign, both Hipkins and Luxon have been hamming it up for the cameras, from scooping out ice cream to making pizzas.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 13, 2023

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

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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