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
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If you plunk the hambone into a pot of water with a halved onion and boil it for a couple of hours, you’ll be rewarded with a deep, sultry broth.
From New York Times ● Dec. 8, 2021
That's me in the photograph in the foreground, sitting on a chair doing hambone with Ed in the background singing lead.
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
“You hambone, this ain’t war, this is water guns.”
From "Crash" by Jerry Spinelli
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