Similar words: sit up, sit-up, wait up, split up, amity, vituperative, vituperation, calamity. Meaning: v. exaggerate one's acting.
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1. The actors were really hamming it up to amuse the audience.
2. Ham it up, as much as you like-the children will soon catch on to the fun.
3. Overemphasis, hamming it up, leads to the exaggerations of satire, cartooning,(sentence dictionary) melodrama and farce.
4. Every year Dad puts on his Santa suit and hams it up for the kids.
5. For all the kids care he could be Goofy, hamming it up for Mickey Mouse.
6. Make every movement natural; Don't ham it up.
7. He loves to ham it up for the ladies.
8. The actor is really ham it up to amuse the audience.
9. Ask your friends to ham it up for the camera while you experiment with the flash.
10. Thrusting themselves into the spirit of the farce, they ham it up like mad.
11. Gossip Girl pretty boys Chace Crawford and Penn Badgley ham it up for the cameras during TRL at MTV studios in Times Square.
12. Your story is very funny, but there is no need to ham it up.