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cabotiner — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • ham noun Meat from the thigh of a pig, cured or cooked for eating.

Senses

cabotiner is used for these senses in English:

  • chew the scenery (idiomatic, performing arts) To display excessive emotion or to act in an exaggerated manner while performing; to be melodramatic; to be flamboyant.
  • ham (acting) To overact; to act with exaggerated emotions.
  • ham it up (idiomatic, acting) To deliberately exaggerate one's emotions or movements, or to overact or act hammily.

ham — full definition

  1. noun Meat from the thigh of a pig, cured or cooked for eating.
  2. noun An amateur radio operator.
  3. noun An actor or performer who overacts.
  4. verb To overact or perform with exaggerated emotion.

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