hambone

Example Sentences

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Nine years after that, Ed called me up one day and asked, "You still do hambone?"

From Salon • Nov. 21, 2020

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

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

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