Crossword clues for hammy
hammy
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
hammy
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 hammy in places, will certainly stimulate interest in engineering among school leavers.
▪ There is some hammy acting, but the film gives an interesting insight into the gangster scene of the Sixties.
Wiktionary
hammy
a. 1 Resembling ham. 2 Amateurish; characterized by overacting. n. (context US Australia NZ chiefly sports slang English) (short for hamstring dot=; English) a hamstring injury.
WordNet
Wikipedia
Hammy
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 Hampton Gray, a Canadian naval officer and aviator
- Nickname of Tom Hamilton, a broadcaster for the Cleveland Indians
- Slang for Hamstring
- Overacting, of acting
Usage examples of "hammy".
The men bellowed when customers or merchants got in their way, and neither hesitated to apply a hammy fist to ease their passage.
He opted to stay down, but a hammy hand grabbed his mended doublet and yanked him up.
Cal watched him move from table to table, watched his face run a gamut of hammy theatrical expressions, each one donned and doffed like a Commedia del Arte mask.