ham

1. 1.

   exaggerate one's acting

   Synonymsoveractham it upoverplay

   Broaderact

   dramaturgy

Other forms of ham

plural

hams·

past tense or participle

hammed

present participle

hamming

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about ham

What does ham mean?

ham means "meat cut from the thigh of a hog (usually smoked)". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in ham?

ham has 1 syllable: ham. In IPA it is /ˈhæm/.

What is another word for ham?

Close synonyms include jambon, gammon, ham actor, overact, ham it up. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is ham a common word?

ham is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with ham?

5 words rhyme with ham. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.