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ham

[ham] / hæm /
NOUN
one who overacts
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Servings of processed meats such as ham, sausages and chicken nuggets have been reduced to once a week and must come with a side of vegetables or fruit.

From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026

Not dramatically on sale, in the way of a holiday ham wearing a fluorescent sticker that announces some brief and glorious collapse in the market.

From Salon ● Aug. 25, 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

He mops a line of sweat from his brow, his face so flush with pink, it resembles a glazed holiday ham.

From "The Bletchley Riddle" by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin

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

Of course there were blankets, water bottles, clothing, masks and hygiene products, but also grab-and-go salads, squeezable snacks for kids, candy, crates of fresh vegetables, protein and grain bars, even honey-baked hams and queen-sized mattresses.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 16, 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

There was the gray cat sunning himself outside the tailor’s shop, and the hams and sausages hanging in the butcher’s window.

From "I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919" by Lauren Tarshis

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

She was usually buoyant and effusive, but this time she really hammed it up, hugging and kissing the case of Propel Fitness Water he’d brought home from the store.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 7, 2024

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

From BBC ● Jan. 12, 2024

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

From Seattle Times ● May 3, 2022

Slopper hammed it up a bit, trying to mimic and trying to pretend that wasn’t the case.

From "The Marrow Thieves" by Cherie Dimaline

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

He performed badly in sports and in school, but was a decent singer and could get a chuckle hamming it up in the school play.

From Salon ● Jan. 10, 2025

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

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

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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