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

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

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

“You hambone, this ain’t war, this is water guns.”

From "Crash" by Jerry Spinelli