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

Now it defies all of Mr. Spacey’s serious gifts and hambone tricks to bring it to engaging life.

From New York Times • Jun. 16, 2017

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

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