: someone who enjoys performing and who tends to behave in an exaggerated or playful way when people are watching.
An actor who is overly theatrical - in other words, 'overacts' - is usually referred to as 'ham'. He does such a bad job that the audience ends up laughing. The word is frequently used in everyday contexts to refer to someone who likes to draw attention to himself by being overly dramatic.
Gammon is a pejorative popularised in British political culture since around 2012.
The word “ham” here, in theatrical terms, refers to an "overacting inferior performer," and apparently dates from about 1882, originating in America. The word seems to derive from hamfatter, meaning "actor of low grade," and has been linked to an old minstrel show song, "The Ham-fat Man" which dates from about 1863.
informal. : to act or behave in an exaggerated or playful way. She likes to ham it up for the camera.
The term 'ham' was originally coined by SpamBayes sometime around 2001 and is currently defined and understood to be “E-mail that is generally desired and isn't considered spam.”
HAM means "Hard As a Motherf*cker." HAM is an acronym for the phrase "Hard As a Motherf*cker." It is used to refer to a person who is tough, dedicated and driven. The use of HAM in this context was popularized by American rappers Jay-Z and Kanye West, in their 2011 collaboration "H*A*M."
These "baby" hams are cut from the center of larger boneless hams. They are then smoked with hickory wood in a smokehouse. No fillers are added. A sugar cure, rather than a salt cure, keeps the ham from tasting too salty.
meat cut from the thigh of a hog (usually smoked) synonyms: gammon, jambon.
The commonest suffix in compound London place names is 'ham' (the origin of the word 'home'), which used to mean a collection of dwellings - often a farm - as in Ickenham, Lewisham and Rainham.
HAM, v. Sc. usage: to cure meat, esp. hind-quarters of beef, pork or mutton, by salting and smoking them (Twd.
An amateur station that Hyman supposedly shared with Bob Almy and Reggie Murray, which was said to be using the self-assigned call sign HAM (short for Hyman-Almy-Murray), thus came to represent all of amateur radio.
Slang references
"Like ham and eggs" refers to things that typically go together and are difficult to separate. To "ham and egg it" is to plug away at something. "Ham and eggs" or "ham and egger" can also refer to an ordinary, unskilled or mediocre person.
Hi Tierra ,snake used in slang means a person that is false or fake and would do anything to get where they want(cheat,lie,etc.). I hope this helps=)
TIL the opposite of HAM is CHEESE, thanks.
A gammon is pretty much the same cut, but is what in the States we call a “fresh ham,” i.e. uncooked. Most hams are sold precooked. By the way, there is another cut that's a lot like ham called “picnic ham” or “picnic” for short in the States.
Pork is a cut of meat from a domesticated pig in its raw form, while ham is a specific cut of pork from the pig's hind legs.
Ham comes in three styles: city, country and fresh. City hams are the easiest to find at any local grocery store and the prep is easy, too. These are usually cured by brining and are sold fully cooked. Country hams (dry-cured and uncooked) are harder to find.
Cured meats, such as bacon and ham, have a distinctive pink color produced by chemical reactions between sodium nitrite and myoglobin. The curing process begins by infusing fresh meat with a sodium nitrite solution where it is quickly converted to nitric oxide (NO).
When can you start giving ham to your baby? Babies can eat ham starting at the age of 6 months, when they start eating solids, but ham should be mashed, and not be combined with other salty foods.
The Old English ham which means variously "homestead, village, manor, estate" (Mills, p. 381) and hamm which means "enclosure, land hemmed by water or marsh or higher ground, land in a riverbend, rivermeadow, promontory" (Mills, p. 381) both appear as ham in modern names.
Ham is the cured leg of pork. Fresh ham is an uncured leg of pork. Fresh ham will bear the term "fresh" as part of the product name and is an indication that the product is not cured. "Turkey" ham is a ready-to-eat product made from cured thigh meat of turkey.
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Slang. something that one particularly likes, enjoys, or does well: Seriously, a huge meat patty and garlic fries are pretty much my jam after a day outside. Since math is not my jam, I'll let y'all figure out the rest. something that one finds pleasant or easy: Life isn't all jam for me just now.
"Ham" is e-mail that is not Spam. In other words, "non-spam", or "good mail". It should be considered a shorter, snappier synonym for "non-spam". Its usage is particularly common among anti-spam software developers, and not widely known elsewhere; in general it is probably better to use the term "non-spam", instead.