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  • noun Plural form of hambone.

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Examples

  • From the onset of the Reagan administration, he found himself in regular conflict with the trioMeese, Baker, Deaverthat controlled the Reagan White House: Guerrilla warfare with a bunch of second-rate hambones, he called it.

    In the Shadow of the Oval Office Ivo H. Daalder 2009

  • From the onset of the Reagan administration, he found himself in regular conflict with the trioMeese, Baker, Deaverthat controlled the Reagan White House: Guerrilla warfare with a bunch of second-rate hambones, he called it.

    In the Shadow of the Oval Office Ivo H. Daalder 2009

  • From the onset of the Reagan administration, he found himself in regular conflict with the trioMeese, Baker, Deaverthat controlled the Reagan White House: Guerrilla warfare with a bunch of second-rate hambones, he called it.

    In the Shadow of the Oval Office Ivo H. Daalder 2009

  • Anon -- Jerry answers your question below, and he's right, I've seen it in the meat section of chain stores here ... if they have hambones, the usually have salt pork.

    a life pursuit | Homesick Texan Homesick Texan 2007

  • From the onset of the Reagan administration, he found himself in regular conflict with the trioMeese, Baker, Deaverthat controlled the Reagan White House: Guerrilla warfare with a bunch of second-rate hambones, he called it.

    In the Shadow of the Oval Office Ivo H. Daalder 2009

  • "I'll soon pick it all up again," said the Leather-bell submissively, and going down on his hambones he began sweeping into the palm of his hand what had been spilt and putting it back with the rest.

    The Day of Wrath M��r J��kai 1864

  • He was from that moment persona non grata with Reagan's White House staff, whom Haig called "hambones."

    Politics Daily Lou Cannon 2010

  • Although it would take more than another year before these hambones, joined by Nancy Reagan, forced Haig's resignation, the writing was on the wall from the moment of this disastrous briefing.

    Politics Daily Lou Cannon 2010

  • Although it would take more than another year before these hambones, joined by Nancy Reagan, forced Haig's resignation, the writing was on the wall from the moment of this disastrous briefing.

    Politics Daily Lou Cannon 2010

  • He was from that moment persona non grata with Reagan's White House staff, whom Haig called "hambones."

    Politics Daily Lou Cannon 2010

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