Definitions for HAM

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HAM ham

Spelling: [ham]

IPA: /hæm/

Ham is a 3 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 13 anagrams from letters in HAM (ahm).

Definitions for HAM

noun

1. a cut of meat from the heavy-muscled part of a hog's rear quarter, between hip and hock, usually cured.
2. that part of a hog's hind leg.
3. the part of the leg back of the knee.
4. Often, hams. the back of the thigh, or the thigh and the buttock together.
5. an actor or performer who overacts.
6. an operator of an amateur radio station.
7. the second son of Noah, Gen. 10:1.

Idioms

1. ham it up, to overact; ham.

verb (used with or without object)

1. to act with exaggerated expression of emotion; overact.

Origin of HAM

before 1000; Middle English hamme, Old English hamm bend of the knee; cognate with Middle Dutch, Middle Low German hamme, Old High German hamma; akin to Old Norse hǫm buttock; perhaps akin to

Examples for HAM

The Cuban sandwich is made with pulled pork shoulder and ham (both from farm hogs, of course), as well as house-made pickles.

The problem for Perry is that a Travis County jury can also find a Republican ham sandwich guilty.

But merit aside, you can indict a ham sandwich if it's Republican in the most liberal hotbed of Texas: Travis County.

Did you notice you could read every letter in the label on that ham?

I take it fried, about an inch thick, with plenty of ham fat.

Fig. 23 shows a ham from which the rind has not been removed.

A grilled cheese sandwich, made with four different cheeses, comes with McLane ham (and is grilled in truffle butter).

Since when was the traditional version thrown out for one made of ham?

They make 'em out o' brick-clay and ham fat up in them mountains.

Let me get some of this ham into my face, and then I'll talk.