hambone
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hambone (plural hambones)
- The bone at the center of a ham
- 2009 February 22, J. David Goodman, “The Night of the Foot”, in New York Times[1]:
- Perhaps I was afraid of being laughed at if the mysterious item turned out to be a hambone, a distinct possibility.
- (US slang, acting) A ham; an eager or inferior performer
- 1946, Radio Alphabet: A Glossary of Radio Terms, Hastings House, page 38:
- HAMBONE — An unconvincing blackface dialectician.
- 2009 February 15, Rob Salem, “When comedy geniuses unite”, in Toronto Star[2]:
- Ferrell is the ubiquitous hambone, an affably oblivious man-child prone to shirtless prancing onscreen.
- (music, dance) A certain type of dance that involves making noise with the body, especially by slapping parts of the body with one's hands
- (bowling, informal) Four consecutive strikes.
Synonyms edit
- (type of dance): Juba dance
- (inferior performer): ham, hamfatter, overactor, tear-cat
See also edit
Juba dance on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Verb edit
hambone (third-person singular simple present hambones, present participle hamboning, simple past and past participle hamboned)
- (intransitive) To dance the hambone.