Meaning of ham | Babel Free

Definitions

1. An overacting or amateurish performer; an actor with an especially showy or exaggerated style.
2. A surname.
   countable, uncountable
3. A son of Noah and the brother of Japheth and Shem.
4. Initialism of his apostolic majesty, the title given to a number of historical kings of Hungary.
   abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
5. Initialism of Hold-And-Modify, a display mode of the Commodore Amiga computer, allowing for a large number of colours on screen.
   abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
6. ISO 639-3 language code for Hewa
7. The region back of the knee joint; the popliteal space; the hock.
   countable, uncountable
8. An amateur radio operator.
9. A suburb and ward in Plymouth, Devon, England (OS grid ref SX4657).
   countable, uncountable
10. A region back of the knee joint; the popliteal space; the hock
11. A thigh and/or buttock of a hog slaughtered for meat; (occasionally) the corresponding cut from some other animal.
    countable
12. A small village in Ham and Stone parish, Stroud district, Gloucestershire, England (OS grid ref ST6898).
    countable, uncountable
13. A thigh and/or buttock of a hog slaughtered for meat; (occasionally) the corresponding cut from some other animal
14. Meat from the thigh and/or buttock of a hog cured for food.
    uncountable
15. The back of the thigh of humans or certain other animals.
    countable, uncountable
16. A suburban area in the borough of Richmond upon Thames and borough of Kingston upon Thames, Greater London, England (OS grid ref TQ1771).
    countable, uncountable
17. Meat from the thigh and/or buttock of a hog cured for food
18. Electronic mail that is wanted; email that is not spam or junk mail.
    Internet, countable, informal, uncommon, uncountable
19. Two districts (East Ham and West Ham) in borough of Newham, Greater London.
    countable, uncountable
20. The back of the thigh of humans or certain other animals
21. A hamlet in Northbourne parish, Dover district, Kent, England (OS grid ref TR3254).
    countable, uncountable
22. A small village and civil parish in eastern Wiltshire, England, south of Hungerford, West Berkshire (OS grid ref SU3363).
    countable, uncountable
23. A village in Caithness, Highland council area, Scotland (OS grid ref ND2373)
    countable, uncountable

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Examples

“"I'll have you so your hams will stand out like horse's shanks!" de declared.”

“a little piece of ham for the cat”

“She put some ham in the beans and cut up some sweet potatoes to boil.”

“Writing in The New Yorker in 2005, James Wood praised Mr. McCarthy as “a colossally gifted writer” and “one of the great hams of American prose, who delights in producing a histrionic rhetoric that brilliantly ventriloquizes the King James Bible, Shakespearean and Jacobean tragedy, Melville, Conrad, and Faulkner.””

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