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humpbacked

[huhmp-bakt] / ˈhʌmpˌbækt /


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Boeing produced its final humpbacked jumbo jet on Dec. 6.

From New York Times • Dec. 28, 2022

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

Somewhere in between up and down, I’ve frozen: humpbacked, arms swinging monkey-like.

From "I'll Give You the Sun" by Jandy Nelson