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humpbacked

[huhmp-bakt] / ˈhʌmpˌbækt /


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On a recent Friday afternoon, hundreds of visitors in soccer uniforms or draped in flags waited for their turn to mount the humpbacked animals.

From Washington Times Nov. 28, 2022

It will hold 25% more volume than Boeing’s existing freighter and is emerging as an heir to the plane-maker’s humpbacked 747 jumbos that have hauled goods across the North Pacific for decades.

From Seattle Times Oct. 13, 2021

The work features Punchinello, the hook-nosed, humpbacked clowns who were some of the stock characters taken from the Commedia dell' Arte - an early form of professional theatre.

From BBC Oct. 11, 2021

Neither the humpbacked 747 nor the cherry-red public buses that crisscross London surpass the Big Mac as the world’s most famous double-decker.

From Washington Post Nov. 30, 2016

But thank God we did not see any of these, only humpbacked lizards as big as your arm which the people here catch and eat They love meat.

From "The Color Purple" by Alice Walker




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