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hump-backed

hump-backed is the alternative form of humpbacked.

Meaning of humpbacked

Adjective

humpbacked (not comparable)

  1. Having a hump on the back, either naturally or due to a medical condition.
    • All modern camels are humpbacked creatures, but the number of humps depends on the species.
  2. Being a humpback bridge.
    • There was a little stream, or brook, never dry, flowing, now slow, now with torrential rapidity, for ever in its narrow ditch. Unsteadily a rustic bridge bestrode its dark waters, a rustic humpbacked bridge, in a state of extreme dilapidation.1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, [Paris]: Olympia Press, →OCLC

Questions about hump-backed

What is hump-backed the alternative form of?
Hump-backed is the alternative form of humpbacked.

Words near hump-backed in the dictionary

  1. hump slug
  2. hump slugs
  3. hump someone's brains out
  4. hump yard
  5. hump yards
  6. hump-backed
  7. hump-nosed
  8. humpa humpa
  9. humpability
  10. humpable
  11. Humpal

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