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ham
verb- to over-act, to be an inferior actor US, 1930
- [Warren] Mitchell is in his element as Solomon, bent-backed, hamming furiously, his caterpillar eyebrows doing a whole separate show of their own[.] — The Guardian, 10 September 2003
- to walk US
- — Joseph E. Ragen and Charles Finston, Inside the World’s Toughest Prison, p. 802, 1962: “Penitentiary and underworld glossary”
▶ ham it up
to behave theatrically, to exaggerate US, 1955- [Actor, David Jason] was always a bit prone to ham it up. — The Observer, 23 December 2001
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