brokeback.
Hunchbacked.
Meaning & usage
Hunchbacked.
Damn those brokeback tramps making a mess of our city.
Broken; derelict.
The brokeback bridges in the hills sadden me: this place used to be beautiful.
Where this word comes from
From break + back; first used for "hunchback" in Carson McCullers' 1943 novella The Ballad of the Sad Café.
Homoerotic; homosexual, gay.
I don't really think Frodo and Sam were gay, even if a couple of the scenes seemed a little brokeback to me.
Where this word comes from
From the title of Annie Proulx's 1997 short story "Brokeback Mountain"; popularised by the 2005 film of the same name.
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