hamming in English

verb
1
overact.
he was hamming it up , doing all the voices and the effects
noun
verb

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1. Rate it: Ashd: Adjusted Structural Hamming Distance

2. Overemphasis, hamming it up, leads to the exaggerations of satire, cartooning, melodrama and farce.

3. The mike and lights were so restricting that acting was limited to hamming the lines with the body in stony immobility .

4. He received the IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal in 2006, for "contributions to the theory of error-correcting codes and information theory, including the Levenshtein distance".

5. This isn't an impediment to Betsy Brandt, who revels in hamming up as Ted's highly strung boss, while Tom Arnold and Jim O'Heir should be snapped up for a film of their own as the Bickeringly competitive siblings forever finding Ted wanting in the ways of Chicago manhood.