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hambone

[ ham-bohn ]

noun

  1. Theater.
    1. (especially in minstrel shows and vaudeville) a performer made up in blackface and using a stereotyped Black dialect.
    2. an unskilled, overeager, or artless actor, or any performer who overacts.
  2. Bowling Slang. four consecutive strikes.
  3. Usually ham bone. a bone in a hog's ham:

    We always use the leftover ham bone to make pea soup.



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Origin of hambone1

First recorded in 1850–55; ham 1 + bone; ham 2
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Robinson, an Ivy League-educated, wealthy businessman, had been locked up since his arrest in 1989 on charges that he hired hit men from Chicago’s El Rukn street gang to kill a boyhood friend of his, Leroy “Hambone†Barber, after the two got into a fistfight in South Carolina, where they both grew up.

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Growing up on a farm in Dry Creek, a small community west of Port Angeles, Haggerty had always been a bit of a “hambone.â€

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If you plunk the hambone into a pot of water with a halved onion and boil it for a couple of hours, you’ll be rewarded with a deep, sultry broth.

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But “Hola Amigo,†a 10-track digital album dedicated to bridging cultural divides, also offers standouts like “Keep It Up,†a rock anthem featuring the Sugar Free Allstars, and “Hambone,†which turns that nursery tune into a rapped Black Lives Matter plea.

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He likes to get our hands involved whenever he can, inducing reflexive claps and snaps — like during “Hambone Cappuccino,†the curtain-raising track on “Wuddaji†where snapping fingers punctuate a fussy keyboard phrase, first as an instructional gesture and then as a tacit acknowledgment of your presence.

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