ham² /ham/ (informal)

1. An actor who rants and overacts
2. Overacting
3. A part that lends itself to this
4. An inexpert boxer
5. An amateur, esp an amateur radio operator

1. Given to overacting or ranting
2. Amateur
3. Clumsy, coarse, inexpert

To overact

• preservationists
• preservation order
• preservation orders
• perniciously
• perniciousness
• perniciousnesses
• pernicketiness
• pernicketinesses
• pernickety
• pernoctate
• pernoctated
• pernoctates
• pernoctating
• pernoctation
• pernoctations
• Pernod
• perns
• perogi
• perogies
• perone
• peroneal
• perones
• peroneus
• peroneuses
• Peronism