"ham it up" meaning in English

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Verb

Audio: en-au-ham it up.ogg Forms: hams it up [present, singular, third-person], hamming it up [participle, present], hammed it up [participle, past], hammed it up [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|*}} ham it up (third-person singular simple present hams it up, present participle hamming it up, simple past and past participle hammed it up)
  1. (idiomatic, acting) To deliberately exaggerate one's emotions or movements, or to overact or act hammily. Tags: idiomatic Categories (topical): Acting Synonyms: chew the scenery, ham, melodramatize, overact, tear a cat Translations (performing arts: exaggerate one's emotions or movements): 有意誇張 (Chinese Mandarin), 有意夸张 (yǒuyì kuāzhāng) (Chinese Mandarin), 表演過火 (Chinese Mandarin), 表演过火 (biǎoyǎn guòhuǒ) (Chinese Mandarin), met opzet overdrijven (Dutch), ylinäytellä (Finnish), liioitella (Finnish), cabotiner (French), zu dick auftragen (German), megjátssza magát (Hungarian), exagerar (na atuação) (Portuguese), переи́грывать (pereígryvatʹ) (Russian), переигра́ть (pereigrátʹ) (Russian), sobreactuar (Spanish), dramatizar (Spanish), spela över (Swedish)
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      "sense": "performing arts: exaggerate one's emotions or movements",
      "word": "zu dick auftragen"
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      "sense": "performing arts: exaggerate one's emotions or movements",
      "word": "megjátssza magát"
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      "sense": "performing arts: exaggerate one's emotions or movements",
      "word": "exagerar (na atuação)"
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