Ham : noun Le ham is a delicatessen developed by salting ou baking full thigh or shoulder de porc.
Leg, calf, thigh.
Break his ham: break his gun (jargon of the troops; allusion to the butt).
Plump woman's thigh: You saw the hams she carries around!
Scrape ham / scrape ham: play guitar or banjo.
Take someone for a ham: take him for a fool, an idiot. Yes, that's it, take me for a ham!
Part of hams: part of legs in the air.
– Quote from the American writer John Fante (1909-1983): “Again she kissed me. You might as well give your lips cold ham for all the effect it had on me. I was beneath everything. » in the novel Ask the Dust (ask the dust) (1939).