1
- mass noun meat from the upper part of a pig's leg salted and dried or smoked火腿：
thin slices of ham
薄火腿片
count noun a honey-baked ham.蜜汁烤火腿。
2
hams
the back of the thigh or the thighs and buttocks后腿; 股臀部：he squatted down on his hams.
他蹲了下来。
词源
Old English ham, hom (originally denoting the back of the knee)， from a Germanic base meaning 'be crooked'. In the late 15th cent. the term came to denote the back of the thigh， hence the thigh or hock of an animal.
1
- usu. as modifier an excessively theatrical actor表演过火的演员, 表演夸张做作的演员：
ham actors.
表演过火的拙劣演员。
1.1
- mass noun excessively theatrical acting过火的表演, 夸张做作的表演。
2
- （亦作radio ham）informal an amateur radio operator〈非正式〉业余无线电台操作人员。
hammed, hamming
no obj. informal overact〈非正式〉过火地表演; 表现得过分; 过分卖力：he was hamming it up, doing all the voices and the effects.
他表现得过分卖力, 一个人包办了所有的声音和效果。
词源
late 19th cent. (originally US)： perhaps from the first syllable of AMATEUR; compare with the US slang term hamfatter 'inexpert performer'. Sense 2 dates from the early 20th cent.