salted or smoked meat from the upper part of a pig's leg

thin slices of ham

a honey-baked ham

the back of the thigh or the thighs and buttocks

he squatted down on his hams

an excessively theatrical actor

ham actors

an amateur radio operator

overact

she hammed it up for the cameras

(in the Bible) a son of Noah (Gen. 10:1), traditional ancestor of the Hamites