amateur vs hambone

amateur

noun
  • Someone who is unqualified or insufficiently skillful. 

  • A person attached to a particular pursuit, study, science, or art (such as music or painting), especially one who cultivates any study, interest, taste, or attachment without engaging in it professionally. 

adj
  • Showing a lack of professionalism, experience or talent. 

  • Non-professional. 

  • Created, done, or populated by amateurs or non-professionals. 

hambone

noun
  • A ham; an eager or inferior performer 

  • Four consecutive strikes. 

  • A certain type of dance that involves making noise with the body, especially by slapping parts of the body with one's hands 

  • The bone at the center of a ham 

verb
  • To dance the hambone. 

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