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hambone

/ham-bohn/US // ˈhæmˌboʊn //

汉邦,汉本,汉骨,汉堡

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : Theater. a performer made up in blackface and using a stereotyped Black dialect.an unskilled, overeager, or artless actor, or any performer who overacts.
    • : juba.
    • : Bowling Slang. four consecutive strikes.
    • : Usually ham bone . a bone in a hog's ham: We always use the leftover ham bone to make pea soup.

Synonyms & Antonyms

as inactor

Examples

  • That one made me laugh because I felt like such a hambone pantomiming.

  • Beck is an entertainer, and he does his job with hambone energy and handfuls of self-mockery.

  • They'd rather fight en a yaller dawg likes fo' to worry a hambone.

  • Reynolds did as directed and Hambone ducked for cover and the wagon stood stock still.

  • Our glee was positively fiendish next day when watching Hambone wriggling uneasily in his clothes at parade.

  • Accompanying Hambone were Snow and Reynolds of our section, they sitting in the back end of the wagon.

  • A minute or two elapsed and no explosion taking place, Hambone rejoined the wagon and the party proceeded.