hams

ham

One who exaggerates a performance or acts in an overstated or over-the-top manner, often to the level of being irksome or inappropriate. This is a serious play, so please don't be a ham out there. My toddlers turn into real hams whenever we have company over.
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

hams

1. n. legs; hips. Her great hams extended over the sides of the chair.
2. n. the hamstring muscles. (Bodybuilding.) Can you think of any exercises that would be good for my hams?
See also: ham
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • blivit
  • sobersides
  • chestnut
  • (old) chestnut
  • an old chestnut
  • old chestnut
  • pardon my French
  • excuse my French
  • excuse/pardon my French
  • french
References in periodicals archive
That 40 people can consume a whole leg of ham is understandable, considering its exquisite taste, the sheer delight of biting into a slice of thin, transparent, rosy ham whose origin is that of a pig that had roamed freely in fields of green and eaten nothing but acorns from centuries-old oak trees during its privileged lifetime (or, in some cases with herbs and grains added to their diet).
Brush ham with store-bought light syrup, glaze or spread prepared mustard all over.
The Jinhua hams were produced by Jinzi Corporation Limited Company of Zhejiang Province.
Sensory properties of dry-cured hams obtained from four different pig breeds were evaluated by a trained panel members (n = 8), using a descriptive analysis method as described by Ruiz et al.
Stay tuned for next week when I share a potato and ham casserole with all those delicious leftovers!
Parma Ham is a completely natural food with nothing added except salt.Making a Parma Ham is a long and painstaking process.
The main dish was a saltimbocca of pork fillet - in Italy it is made with thin escalope of veal with sage and Parma ham. It's a simple but beautiful dish with loads of flavours.
Since there had been no ham operation from Chad in several years and I was the only TT8 on the air, I quickly created a considerable stir among hams around the world who needed a contact with Chad for an award or points in a contest.
As a result, farm-stored hams often deteriorate in quality or are lost entirely through infestation of insects.
The Spanish delicacy, Joselito Iberico Jamon de Bellota, is thought to be the most expensive ham in the world and will go on sale at Wirral food festival on Sunday.
Although 95 percent of the hams sold at Long's are dry cured, smoked hams (aka country hams), there are other types.
A thread of domestic tension runs throughout this history, as reflected in one ham's query soliciting "anyone [who has] managed to build a ham rig into a modern home and keep it unobtrusive." During the first half of the century, hams often faced government suspicion that they might be using their instruments to communicate with "foreign" agents, though in the World War II years they dubbed themselves the minutemen of radio and some joined the (tightly supervised) War Emergency Radio Service.
Kids in the Ham Shack at the Fitness Farm sat enraptured as Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger answered their fitness questions at this year's annual Scholarship Games in Indy.
And the Celebrity Healthy Hams excel in the taste department.
It's Christmas when Radford's hams are in most demand by people who like to eat the best of England ( and now is the time to think ahead.