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hamfats

hamfats is the plural of hamfat.

Meaning of hamfat

Noun

hamfat (plural hamfats)

  1. (US, obsolete, offensive, slang) A black person.
  2. (US, obsolete, black slang) Something average; a mediocre thing or person, especially a jazz musician.
    • Around the poolroom I defended the guys I felt were my real brothers, the colored musicians who made music that sent me, not a lot of beat-up old hamfats who sang and played a commercial excuse for the real thing.1946, Milton “Mezz” Mezzrow, Bernard Wolfe, “Quit Foolin’ with That Comb”, in Really the Blues, New York, N.Y.: Random House, book 1 (1899–1923: A Nothin’ but a Child), page 49
  3. (US, slang) A low-grade actor; a ham or hamfatter.

Questions about hamfats

What is hamfats the plural of?
Hamfats is the plural of hamfat.

Words near hamfats in the dictionary

  1. Hamet
  2. hamets
  3. hametz
  4. hamfare
  5. hamfat
  6. hamfats
  7. hamfatter
  8. hamfatters
  9. hamfest
  10. hamfests
  11. hamfist

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