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hambone
[ ham-bohn ]
noun
- 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.
- juba.
- Bowling Slang. four consecutive strikes.
- Usually ham bone. a bone in a hog's ham:
We always use the leftover ham bone to make pea soup.
Word History and Origins
Example Sentences
Robinson, an Ivy League-educated, wealthy businessman, had been locked up since his arrest in 1989 on charges that he hired hit men from Chicago’s El Rukn street gang to kill a boyhood friend of his, Leroy “Hambone” Barber, after the two got into a fistfight in South Carolina, where they both grew up.
Robinson, an Ivy League-educated, wealthy businessman, had been locked up since his arrest in 1989 on charges that he hired hit men from Chicago’s El Rukn street gang to kill a boyhood friend of his, Leroy “Hambone” Barber, after the two got into a fistfight in South Carolina, where they both grew up.
Growing up on a farm in Dry Creek, a small community west of Port Angeles, Haggerty had always been a bit of a “hambone.”
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.
But “Hola Amigo,” a 10-track digital album dedicated to bridging cultural divides, also offers standouts like “Keep It Up,” a rock anthem featuring the Sugar Free Allstars, and “Hambone,” which turns that nursery tune into a rapped Black Lives Matter plea.
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