hambone
Theater.
(especially in minstrel shows and vaudeville) a performer made up in blackface and using a stereotyped Black dialect.
an unskilled, overeager, or artless actor, or any performer who overacts.
juba.
Bowling Slang. four consecutive strikes.
Usually ham bone . a bone in a hog's ham: We always use the leftover ham bone to make pea soup.
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How to use hambone in a sentence
That one made me laugh because I felt like such a hambone pantomiming.
Emmys 2013: Julie Bowen’s Favorite ‘Modern Family’ Moments (VIDEO) | Julie Bowen | September 4, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTBeck is an entertainer, and he does his job with hambone energy and handfuls of self-mockery.
They'd rather fight en a yaller dawg likes fo' to worry a hambone.
Isle o' Dreams | Frederick F. MooreReynolds did as directed and hambone ducked for cover and the wagon stood stock still.
S.O.S. Stand to! | Reginald GrantOur glee was positively fiendish next day when watching hambone wriggling uneasily in his clothes at parade.
S.O.S. Stand to! | Reginald Grant
Accompanying hambone were Snow and Reynolds of our section, they sitting in the back end of the wagon.
S.O.S. Stand to! | Reginald GrantA minute or two elapsed and no explosion taking place, hambone rejoined the wagon and the party proceeded.
S.O.S. Stand to! | Reginald Grant
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