Ham

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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:

• euphemistically, human buttocks, usually as a plurale tantum hams
• Ham, an amateur radio operator
• Ham the Chimp, the first hominid launched into outer space
• Tailor's ham, a curved mold for pressing garments
• wanted e-mail (as opposed to spam)
• HAM, the acronym for the Harvard Art Museum

In geography:

• Ham, Belgium, a municipality in Belgium
• Ham, Caithness, in Caithness, Scotland
• Ham (Cergy), a small village to the south of Cergy, near Paris
• Ham, London, in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames
• Ham Lake, Minnesota, a city in the United States
• Ham, Plymouth, a ward in the city of Plymouth, England
• Ham, Somme, a commune in France
• Ham, Wiltshire, a village in England
• Winterham, Virginia (also known as Ham), a community in the United States

In music:

• Peter Ham, Welsh singer
• HAM (band), an Icelandic metal band

In fiction:

• The main setting in J. R. R. Tolkien's book Farmer Giles of Ham
• Ham, fictional Simpsons character
• The nickname of Theodore Marley Brooks, one of Doc Savage's assistants

In literature:

• Ham on Rye, a 1982 autobiographical novel by American author Charles Bukowski
• Ham, the nickname of Neanderthals in the Science Fiction novel Manifold: Origin
• Ham, son of Noah, in the Bible

As an acronym:

• Hamburg Airports IATA code
• The Chapman code for the English county of Hampshire
• Hold And Modify, a screenmode of the Commodore Amiga computer
• His Apostolic Majesty
• Hamlet (Amtrak station), North Carolina, United States

See also

• Hamstring (muscle)
• East Ham
• West Ham
• South Hams
• Ham sandwich theorem
• Le Ham, two communes in the French Manche and Mayenne départments
• Hamarkameratene, a Norwegian football team known as HamKam.
• Hamm (disambiguation)

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