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Hamming

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v. Present participle of ham.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. poor acting by a ham actor; see ham.

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n. poor acting by a ham actor

Word Usage

"Posada and fellow long-in-the-tooth Yankee Mariano Rivera seemed to have the most fun of any Yankees pregame, hamming it up with their old teammates during the exhibition in the morning."

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

playing performing acting playacting

Variant

ham

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

overacting

Verb Stem

ham