ham
noun
a cut of meat from the heavy-muscled part of a hog's rear quarter, between hip and hock, usually cured.
hams
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present tense formof ham (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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ChatGPT said she’d need to make two turkeys, two hams and six pies to feed all those guests.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 25, 2025
Most supermarket hams are already fully cooked, which means your job isn’t to roast so much as to gild the lily.
From Salon ● Apr. 18, 2025
Frank, who gives emotional texture to Corrina, hams it up as a string of Wally’s waiters and bank customers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2024
There is a pleasing calm to her delivery that stands out in a scene of fidgety hams.
From New York Times ● Mar. 26, 2024
I could build a smoke house like the one gran’pa had, an’ when we kill a pig we can smoke the bacon and the hams, and make sausage an’ all like that.
From "Of Mice and Men" by John Steinbeck
