Definitions for hunchbacks

hunchbacks hunch·back

Spelling: [huhnch-bak]
IPA: /ˈhʌntʃˌbæk/

Hunchbacks is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 25 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 28 points.

You can make 280 anagrams from letters in hunchbacks (abcchhknsu).

Definitions for hunchbacks

noun

  1. a person whose back is humped in a convex position because of abnormal spinal curvature. Compare kyphosis, kyphoscoliosis.
  2. humpback (def 1).

Origin of hunchbacks

First recorded in 1705-15; back formation from hunchbacked

Examples for hunchbacks

The hunchback made a gesture as of one offered information that is patent.

He was described by Shakespeare as having a hunchback and indeed the skeleton shows evidence of curvature of the spine.

As for the hunchback, he was broken on the wheel, being condemned on his own confession.'

Then he marked the hunchback sitting by the wall, and pointed his finger at him.

The eyes of the hunchback squinted an instant, and then hardened in his face.

Logre, the hunchback, you know, put one of the pieces over his shoulder.

I had seen him kneeling on the ground with his head pinned down by the hunchback.

When he took the bolt from the hole, it was deformed, its head being askew like a hunchback's.

They drank, and the hunchback eyed his man over the rim of the pitcher.

hunchback figures with the tanks mounted on their shoulders.

Word Value for hunchbacks
Scrable

25

Words with friends

28

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