Ham (disambiguation)
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Ham is a cut of meat on an edible mammal's rear, usually from a pig.
Ham may also refer to:
- A phrase meaning to take full advantage of a situation.
- euphemistically, human buttocks, usually as a plurale tantum hams
- Ham, an amateur radio operator
- An actor who overacts or exaggerates
- Ham, Kham, or Han, a tribe in the Himalayas
- The opposite of spam, i.e. regular email
- The act of inventing a word to justify a poorly made point.
In geography:
- Ham, London, England, near Richmond upon Thames
- Ham, Wiltshire, a village in England
- Ham, Caithness, in Caithness, Scotland
- Ham, Shetland, on Foula in Shetland, Scotland
- Ham, Belgium, a municipality in Belgium
- Ham (Cergy), a small village to the south of Cergy, near Paris
- Ham, Somme, a commune in France
- Ham, Buenos Aires, a settlement in General Arenales Partido in Argentina
- Ham Lake, Minnesota, a city in the United States
- Winterham, Virginia (also known as Ham), a community in the United States
In music:
- Peter Ham, Welsh singer
- HAM, an Icelandic metal band
- DJ Ham (aka Hamilton Dean), a UK hardcore DJ and producer from the UK
- As "hAM!" - a derogatory reference to the band Against Me!
As a personal name:
- Ham the Chimp, the first hominid in space
- Ken Ham, creationist
- Mordecai Ham, American Baptist evangelist
In fiction
- Ham, fictional Simpsons character
- The nickname of Theodore Marley Brooks, one of Doc Savage's assistants
In literature:
- Ham, son of Noah, in the Bible
- Ham on Rye, a 1982 autobiographical novel by American author Charles Bukowski
- Ham, the nickname of Neanderthals in the Science Fiction novel Manifold: Origin
As an acronym:
- Hamburg Airport
- The Chapman code for the English county of Hampshire
- Hold And Modify, a screenmode of the Commodore Amiga computer
- Host Assisted Modulation or Host Signal Processing, digital signal processing by means of software
- His Apostolic Majesty
- The Humans Against Monsters group, a fictional extremist organization in the MMORPG RuneScape dedicated to the destruction of all species except humans
- Hamlet (Amtrak station), North Carolina, United States
[edit] See also
- Hamstring (muscle)
- East Ham
- West Ham
- South Hams
- Ham sandwich theorem
- Le Ham, two communes in the French Manche and Mayenne départments
- HAM SDK, an SDK used to write and compile programs (usually videogames) for the Game Boy Advance using the C and C++ coding languages
- Visual HAM, an IDE for the HAM SDK.
- Hamarkameratene, a Norwegian football team known as HamKam.
- Hamm (disambiguation)