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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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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of hambone1

First recorded in 1850鈥55; ham 1 + bone; ham 2
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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 鈥渉ambone.鈥

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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鈥檒l be rewarded with a deep, sultry broth.

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