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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“Some no 'count just leave you here? People like that, I just don’t understand it,” Simpson, playing "Tucker the Trucker," says as he scoops up Hambone on the side of the freeway.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 12, 2014
Or that Radclyffe Hall danced cheek-to-cheek with her lovers at the Hambone club in Ham Yard, beneath a sign that bore the Oscar Wilde aphorism "work is the curse of the drinking classes".
From The Guardian • May 18, 2012
Some speak mystically, as if they were oracles, like the mentally troubled Gabriel in “Fences” and Hambone in “Two Trains Running.”
From New York Times • Jun. 8, 2010
It's always agreed with me really well,� Hambone said.
From Time Magazine Archive
“Kids,” Dad said, “I almost wasn’t your father. You guys came real close to having a clown for a daddy named Hambone Henderson. . . .”
From "The Watsons Go to Birmingham" by Christopher Paul Curtis
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