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  • noun Plural form of ham.
  • noun , slang) The hamstring muscles; the biceps femoris

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Examples

  • • The Company's wholly-owned French operations which produce and market private-label hams and other specialty products primarily in the French market.

    Recently Uploaded Slideshows 2009

  • For instance, most of the nearly 20 people who gathered at the Brookline Safety Complex on Saturday for part one of a two-day course on becoming licensed amateur radio operators - commonly called "hams" - were there with visions of future emergencies on their minds.

    Nashuatelegraph.com local, state, business and sports news 2009

  • You can can get your leg of lamb, leg of goat, bone-in hams, and rack of lamb from vendors at the University District and West Seattle Farmers Markets.)

    Ripe & Ready « PubliCola 2010

  • But I live in Tennessee and I’m proud of it and I call my hams ‘Smoky Mountain Country ham.’

    One Big Table Molly O’Neill 2010

  • Animal haunches – otherwise known as hams – need no comment.

    Attacotti Carla 2009

  • Animal haunches – otherwise known as hams – need no comment.

    Archive 2009-11-01 Carla 2009

  • Some of these shells, called hams, -- clams of great size, with valves in the form of a club, -- had fixed themselves upright in the mire, giving the appearance of a submerged Celtic camp, with a succession of obelisks swallowed up by the depths of the sea.

    Mare Nostrum (Our Sea) A Novel Vicente Blasco Ib����ez 1897

  • As a precaution the store also recalled hams with sell-by dates between

    Features from Minnesota Public Radio 2010

  • The recalled hams were produced at Cannon Falls-based Lorentz Meats and distrivuted to Kowalski's Markets.

    Features from Minnesota Public Radio 2010

  • The recalled hams were produced at Cannon Falls-based Lorentz Meats and distrivuted to Kowalski's Markets.

    Features from Minnesota Public Radio 2010

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