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Verb: ham it up
  1. Act or perform in an exaggerated or overly dramatic way
    "The comedian hammed it up for laughs";
    - overact, ham, overplay

Derived forms: hamming it up, hams it up, hammed it up

Type of: act, play, playact

Encyclopedia: Ham it up