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  1. v. idiomatic, performing arts To display excessive emotion or to act in an exaggerated manner while performing; to be melodramatic; to be flamboyant.

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  1. Its earliest reference is listed in the Random House Historical Dictionary of American Slang as being used by Mary Hallock Foote in Coeur D'Alene in 1894. (Wiktionary)

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Words with the same meaning

  1. overact
  1. melodramatize
  1. ham it up

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