hambone
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 14
- Words With Friends
- 16
- Letters
- 7
Definition of hambone
5 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
noun
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The bone at the center of a ham
“Perhaps I was afraid of being laughed at if the mysterious item turned out to be a hambone, a distinct possibility.”
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noun
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The bone at the center of a ham
“Perhaps I was afraid of being laughed at if the mysterious item turned out to be a hambone, a distinct possibility.”
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(US, slang)A ham; an eager or inferior performer
“HAMBONE — An unconvincing blackface dialectician.”
“Ferrell is the ubiquitous hambone, an affably oblivious man-child prone to shirtless prancing onscreen.”
- A certain type of dance that involves making noise with the body, especially by slapping parts of the body with one's hands
- (informal)Four consecutive strikes.
verb
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(intransitive)To dance the hambone.
““Walking, walking, walking -- Hambone break!””
““♪ Hambone, hambone! ♪ Hambone. Okay, hambone break's over. Back to the bedroom!” (motor whirring) “♪ Hambone, hambone! ♪ Hambone ♪””
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From ham + bone.
Words you can make from hambone
100 playable · top: ABMHO (12 pts)
Best play abmho 12 points6-letter words
1 word5-letter words
6 words4-letter words
28 words- AHEM 9 pts
- HAEM 9 pts
- HAME 9 pts
- HOMA 9 pts
- HOME 9 pts
- AMBO 8 pts
- BEAM 8 pts
- BEMA 8 pts
- MABE 8 pts
- HAEN 7 pts
- HONE 7 pts
- AMEN 6 pts
- BANE 6 pts
- BEAN 6 pts
- BONE 6 pts
- EBON 6 pts
- MANE 6 pts
- MANO 6 pts
- MEAN 6 pts
- MENO 6 pts
- MOAN 6 pts
- NABE 6 pts
- NAME 6 pts
- NEMA 6 pts
- NOMA 6 pts
- NOME 6 pts
- OMEN 6 pts
- AEON 4 pts
3-letter words
39 words- BAH 8 pts
- HAM 8 pts
- HEM 8 pts
- HOB 8 pts
- HOM 8 pts
- MEH 8 pts
- MHO 8 pts
- OHM 8 pts
- BAM 7 pts
- MOB 7 pts
- HAE 6 pts
- HAO 6 pts
- HEN 6 pts
- HOE 6 pts
- HON 6 pts
- NAH 6 pts
- NOH 6 pts
- BAE 5 pts
- BAN 5 pts
- BEN 5 pts
- BOA 5 pts
- EMO 5 pts
- MAE 5 pts
- MAN 5 pts
- MEN 5 pts
- MOA 5 pts
- MON 5 pts
- NAB 5 pts
- NAM 5 pts
- NEB 5 pts
- NOB 5 pts
- NOM 5 pts
- OBA 5 pts
- OBE 5 pts
- OMA 5 pts
- ANE 3 pts
- EON 3 pts
- NAE 3 pts
- ONE 3 pts
2-letter words
25 wordsHooks
2 extensions · 2 back
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