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
Hopkins, a bit of a historic hambone himself, cedes all the big gestures to Pryce and stealthily does some of his craftiest acting in years.
From New York Times • Nov. 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
This is an immense improvement, to my taste, over Affleck’s hambone stud muffin turn in “The Town,” which curdled an otherwise capable crime-romance.
From Salon • Oct. 11, 2012
I figured that was the last time I’d ever see that hambone.
From "Crash" by Jerry Spinelli
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