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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If you happen to have a chicken carcass or a hambone on hand?
From Slate ● Dec. 26, 2019
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
I’ve pretty much always enjoyed watching Penn in everything, not despite of his hambone tendency to milk every moment of every shot but because of it.
From Salon ● Mar. 19, 2015
“You hambone, this ain’t war, this is water guns.”
From "Crash" by Jerry Spinelli
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