(idiomatic, acting) To deliberately exaggerate one's emotions or movements, or to overact or act hammily.

Lacking skill in physical movement, especially with the hands. / (by extension) Lacking skill in general.

A ham, boiled and then baked in the oven with mustard, served sliced at Christmas as one of the traditionally most important parts of the Scandinavian julbord (special Christmas-time smörgåsbord).

(colloquial) The hobby of amateur radio communication.

(derogatory) A worthless or undesirable person. / (wrestling slang) A preliminary wrestler; a jobber. / An ordinary person; a simpleton. / (boxing) A failed boxer; a tomato can.

In a ham-handed manner; clumsily or heavily

Clumsy, heavy, or inept; not delicate, light or gentle.

(Royal Navy slang, obsolete) Tinned meat or fish.

(Cockney rhyming slang, vulgar) A wank. Masturbation.

An air-dried salted ham that takes its name from the French city of Bayonne.