Synonyms for ham
- noun
- verb
Most common
Synonyms by meaning
Noun
1. Tear-cat — an overacting or amateurish performer; an actor with an especially showy or exaggerated style
Other
Verb
Other
camp it up informal, chew the scenery, melodramatize, melodramatise UK, tear a cat dated
Definitions
- n. 1
An overacting or amateurish performer; an actor with an especially showy or exaggerated style.
- n. 2
The region back of the knee joint; the popliteal space; the hock.
- v. 1
To overact; to act with exaggerated emotions.
Related words
- Word family
- ham-and-egger hambeast hambone hamfat ham-handed ham-handedness hammie hammy
- Phrases
- ham it up go ham ham shank chipped chopped ham chipped ham dressmaker's ham ham e-mail ham hock
- Is a kind of
- cut meat food
Example sentences
- bacon Melissa fried the asparagus spears with the bacon.
- gammon I prefer to eat gammon with mustard.
By length
- 4 letters
- knee1
- 5 letters
- bacon2
- 6 letters
- gammon2, jambon
- 7 letters
- hambone, overact3
- 8 letters
- overplay3
- 9 letters
- overactor, hamfatter
- 13 letters
- melodramatize, melodramatise
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (bacon2 = 2 syllables).