Green’s Dictionary of Slang

hambone v.2

[? SE hams, the buttocks and back of the thighs]

1. (Aus.) of a man, to strip off his clothes in public, usu. at a drunken party; also as n.

[UK]M. Sharp in Oz (Sydney) Feb. n.p.: Phil did this king hambone on the kitchen table and ran round the house in the raw ripping the gear off all the birds.
[UK]Partridge DSUE (8th edn) 524/1: since ca. 1960.

2. (US black) to slap one’s body rhythmically in time to music.

[US]McKee & Chisenhall Beale Black & Blue 7: Soon all three were jiving, clapping hands, hamboning, scatting—making music out of nothing.