ham

IPA: hˈæm

(anatomy) The region back of the knee joint; the popliteal space; the hock.
(countable) A thigh and buttock of an animal slaughtered for meat.
(uncountable) Meat from the thigh of a hog cured for food.
The back of the thigh.
(Internet, informal, uncommon) Electronic mail that is wanted; mail that is not spam or junk mail.
(acting) An overacting or amateurish performer; an actor with an especially showy or exaggerated style.
(radio) An amateur radio operator.
A surname.
A suburban area in the borough of Richmond upon Thames and borough of Kingston upon Thames, Greater London, England (OS grid ref TQ1771).
Two districts (East Ham and West Ham) in borough of Newham, Greater London.
A hamlet in Kent, England.
A small village and civil parish in eastern Wiltshire, England, south of Hungerford, West Berkshire (OS grid ref SU3363).
A village in Caithness, Highland council area, Scotland (OS grid ref ND2373)
(biblical) A son of Noah and the brother of Japheth and Shem.
Obsolete form of home. [A dwelling.]
Initialism of his apostolic majesty, the title given to a number of historical kings of Hungary.
(computer graphics) Initialism of Hold-And-Modify, a display mode of the Commodore Amiga computer, allowing for a large number of colours on screen.

(chiefly African-American Vernacular) Initialism of hard as a motherfucker, extremely hard, extremely intensely, crazily.

Examples of "ham" in Sentences

The ham is calling and the family is getting anxious of why I am not at the table.
Dead pigs are called ham, bacon, and sausage and dead cows become meat, steaks, and hamburgers.
The strangeness of you not being in B'ham is tempered by the knowledge you're glad to be where you are.
Chester is of Roman origin, tun is of Gaelic; but "ham" is Anglo-Saxon, and means village, whence the sweet word home.
It's now safe to say whenever "The Good Wife" has an episode with the phrase "ham sandwich" in it, it's going to be a stellar offering.
Not like anything else we've had, but reminiscent of the experience of sampling a superlative prosciutto or culatello, I always thought Jabugo was the word for ham.
Sullivan is now back for more, once again ham-fistedly mixing together sensationalized "controversies" with a shallow understanding of Church teaching and practice.