Crossword clues for hambone
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. The bone at the center of a ham
Wikipedia
Hambone may refer to:
- Literally, the bone found in ham meat
- Hambone (magazine), a literary magazine
- Hambone, California, a community in the United States
- Juba dance, a style of dance that involves stomping as well as slapping and patting the arms, legs, chest, and cheeks
- Hambone Willie Newbern (1899–1947), a guitar-playing blues musician
- "Hambone", a song by Red Saunders (musician)
- Hambone (bowling), the act of rolling four consecutive strikes in bowling
- Hambone (heavy person) (1940–1995)
Hambone is a small literary magazine that has published major poets. The magazine is edited by poet Nathaniel Mackey.
Writing in The Nation magazine, John Palattella described Hambone as "an indispensable little magazine that for more than a quarter-century has featured work by everyone from Sun Ra, Robert Duncan, and Beverly Dahlen to Edward Kamau Brathwaite and Susan Howe."
Sylvanus “Hambone” Smith III (December 12, 1940 – June 14, 1995) was famous at the time for his obesity, weighing approximately 1,000 lbs at his peak; making him one of the world’s heaviest living person. Hambone had to be taken to hospital using a truck, and was lifted out of his own room using a forklift truck. He lost around 300lbs in hospital, but regained it upon returning home. He was desperate to lose weight before marrying his fiancée, Tammy Humphrey.
Usage examples of "hambone".
And ye better be friend for ye pulled me away from swabbing the kitchen decks and now that rapscallion Hambone is skidding across the floor like a bloody ice dancer!
Zanita grinned as she remembered that she had looked out of an upstairs window a few days ago and caught the cat, Hambone, sliding across the surface on his ample belly.
Even Hambone had heard enough and exited the room with grand feline dignity.
Whoever it is must have written that on the wall and left, not realizing that Hambone had snuck in underfoot.
Actually, Hambone was starting to trot, happy to be in on an adventure with them.
She looked down at Hambone, who miraculously gave her the sweetest of cat looks.
She glanced at Tyber to signal him, but the Doc was watching Hambone as he pranced with his prize piece of chicken to the corner of the room to dine alone with the purloined goods.
Even Hambone seemed to lean in toward her so as to not miss any scrap of this deliciously grim tale.
He smiled slowly, looking remarkably like Hambone when he was about to pirate-pounce.
In contrast, Hambone perched on the edge of the window seat and watched the proceedings with avid interest, his one eye gleaming in the candle light.
Zanita was holding a drenched Hambone over the water by the scruff of his neck.
And, as a finale, Hambone suddenly decided to slip his leash and lose himself on the boat right when it came time to depart.
He gently picked up Hambone and placed him in the middle of the comfy bench in the foyer.
There was not a doubt in his mind that Blooey and Hambone would give their all to aid him if they thought he was in trouble.
I looked around, and it was Hambone, sitting on top of the hill out back of my place, keeping time.