hambone
Americannoun
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Theater.
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(especially in minstrel shows and vaudeville) a performer made up in blackface and using a stereotyped Black dialect.
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an unskilled, overeager, or artless actor, or any performer who overacts.
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juba.
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Bowling Slang. four consecutive strikes.
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Usually ham bone a bone in a hog's ham.
We always use the leftover ham bone to make pea soup.
Etymology
Origin of hambone
Example Sentences
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Hopkins, a bit of a historic hambone himself, cedes all the big gestures to Pryce and stealthily does some of his craftiest acting in years.
From New York Times ● Nov. 26, 2019
For Norvell, it is also important to recognize that African-Americans in the northeast forged traditions of their own, though not as well known as Southern traditions such as banjo playing and juba, a dance style also called hambone.
From Reuters ● May 29, 2015
And that they’re willing to put up with our hambone antics as we try to fill them in.
From Slate ● May 29, 2014
This is an immense improvement, to my taste, over Affleck’s hambone stud muffin turn in “The Town,” which curdled an otherwise capable crime-romance.
From Salon ● Oct. 11, 2012
I figured that was the last time I’d ever see that hambone.
From "Crash" by Jerry Spinelli
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