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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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The last type is seen in barefoot, bluebeard, hunchback, leatherneck, redbreast, and scatterbrain.
There are flat infinities, hunchback infinities, bubbling infinities, hyperboloid infinities.
A jolly, easy-go-lucky fellow who hides all his sorrow within and portrays a comical figure, laughing at himself and about his hunchback.
She had a hunchback, a great misshapen hump of bone on her back, and walked with a stick.
A gale howls over the hunchback of Cairngorm, stinging our faces with windblown sleet.
The condition leaves a child short in stature and prone to developing a hunchback.

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