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What does hunchback mean?

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Noun
  1. One who is stooped or hunched over.
  2. A deformed upper spinal column in the shape of a hump in the back.
  3. (derogatory) A person with kyphosis, a spinal deformity that causes a hunched over appearance.
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In 1594, Shakespeare wrote Richard III, a play falsely depicting the Tudors ' defeated adversary as a child-murdering hunchback.
She had a hunchback, a great misshapen hump of bone on her back, and walked with a stick.
A 13-year-old girl, a hunchback from birth, was suddenly straightened and healed.
The condition leaves a child short in stature and prone to developing a hunchback.
With the hump of a hunchback reputed for bringing good luck to those who could touch it, he was himself harassed.
ReprintsAlexander Pope, a country poet and a hunchback, observes and records the scene.

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