Definitions for hambone

hambone ham·bone

Spelling: [ham-bohn]
IPA: /ˈhæmˌboʊn/

Hambone is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 184 anagrams from letters in hambone (abehmno).

Definitions for hambone

noun

  1. (especially in vaudeville) a performer made up in blackface and using a stereotyped black dialect.

Origin of hambone

1850-55; ham1 + bone; cf. ham2

Examples for hambone

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

The first thing hambone did was to go to the back of the wagon for the jar.

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.

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

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

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

Word Value for hambone
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Words with friends

16

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