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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Nine years after that, Ed called me up one day and asked, "You still do hambone?"
From Salon ● Nov. 21, 2020
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
The play's "rude mechanicals" with delusions of thespic grandeur — led by Todd Jefferson Moore, hilarious as the lovable hambone Bottom, and Kevin McKeon as a doltish Peter Quince — keep the laughs flowing.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 24, 2011
Their bodies, from throat to ankle, were hidden by black cloaks which bore a long silver cross on the left breast and each neck was finished off with a hambone frill.
From "Lord of the Flies" by William Golding
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