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hambone

[ham-bohn] / ˈhæmˌboʊn /




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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

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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