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
Besides what actor worth his hambone wouldn’t want to have a chance to become a comic-book Hitler?
From New York Times ● Nov. 15, 2018
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
In the dance pavilion at West Port Jensen the night lanterns were kindled; tourists from Seattle poured forth from the excursion steamers to perform the Svenska polka, the Rhinelander, the schottische, and the hambone.
From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson
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