hambone

[ ham-bohn ]
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noun
  1. 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.

  1. Bowling Slang. four consecutive strikes.

  2. Usually ham bone . a bone in a hog's ham: We always use the leftover ham bone to make pea soup.

Origin of hambone

1
First recorded in 1850–55; ham1 + bone; cf. ham2

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How to use hambone in a sentence

  • Accompanying hambone were Snow and Reynolds of our section, they sitting in the back end of the wagon.

    S.O.S. Stand to! | Reginald Grant
  • A minute or two elapsed and no explosion taking place, hambone rejoined the wagon and the party proceeded.

    S.O.S. Stand to! | Reginald Grant