ham

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun The thigh of the hind leg of certain animals, especially a hog.
• noun A cut of meat from the thigh of a hog.
• noun The back of the knee.
• noun The back of the thigh.
• noun The buttocks.
• noun A performer who overacts or exaggerates.
• noun A licensed amateur radio operator.
• intransitive verb To overact.
• intransitive verb To exaggerate or overdo (a dramatic role, for example).

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun The back of the thigh; the thigh as a whole; in the plural, the gluteal region; the buttocks.
• noun In anatomy, specifically, the back of the knee; the lozenge-shaped area behind the knee, bounded by the hamstrings and heads of the calf-muscles, technically called the popliteal space.
• noun The thigh of an animal slaughtered for food; particularly, the thigh of a hog salted and cured or dried in smoke.
• noun A stinted common pasture for cows.
• noun An obsolete (Middle English and Anglo-Saxon) form of home.
• noun In historical use, with reference to the Anglo-Saxon period, a village or town; more specifically, a manor or private estate with a community of serfs upon it: much used in compound local names, as in Birmingham, Nottingham.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun North of Eng. Home.
• noun (Anat.) The region back of the knee joint; the popliteal space; the hock.
• noun The thigh of any animal; especially, the thigh of a hog cured by salting and smoking.
• noun a person who performs in a showy or exaggerated style; -- used especially of actors. Also used attributively, .
• noun The licensed operator of an amateur radio station.
• intransitive verb (Theater) To act with exaggerated voice and gestures; to overact.
• intransitive verb [Colloq.] to act in a showy fashion or to act so as to attract attention; to ham.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun obsolete Archaic spelling of home.
• noun anatomy The region back of the knee joint; the popliteal space; the hock.
• noun countable The thigh and buttock of any animal slaughtered for meat.
• noun uncountable The thigh of a hog cured for food.
• noun The back of the thigh.
• noun Internet, informal Electronic mail that is wanted; mail that is not spam, or junk mail
• noun An overacting or amateurish performer; an actor with an especially showy or exaggerated style.
• noun An amateur radio operator.
• verb To overact; to act with exaggerated emotions.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• noun (Old Testament) son of Noah
• noun meat cut from the thigh of a hog (usually smoked)
• noun an unskilled actor who overacts
• noun a licensed amateur radio operator
• verb exaggerate one's acting