Apt to chew the scenery

• Like over-the-top acting
• Tending to overact
• Like an emoter
• Overly dramatic description of Hock?
• Like too-loud actors
• Tending to emote
• Like some bad actors

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Christopher Plummer is great too as a hammy , Shakespeare-spouting Klingon warlord. ▪ Now, in the television ads, he cheerfully delivered some hammy lines before falling backwards into a swimming pool. ▪ The film, although ...

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Hammy may refer to: Hammy, a hyperactive squirrel character in the comic strip and film Over the Hedge H. Hamilton "Hammy" Bissell , a faculty member of Phillips Exeter Academy and uncle of John Irving Hammy Love , an Australian cricketer Nickname of Robert ...