1A back deformed by a sharp forward angle, forming a hump, typically caused by collapse of a vertebra.
（尤指因椎骨坍陷而导致的）驼背
Example sentencesExamples
She had a hunchback and walked with a stick.
This was so from the very beginning, for the supposed peculiarities of his birth and the hunchback, for which he is renowned, were but inventions to signify evil.
You'd see old ladies with hunchbacks, who had been harvesting their whole lives.
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 was petite and had a dowager's hump or minor hunchback.
Gus is self-consciously aware of his hunchback and tries to stand taller than everyone else, with tough-as-nails determination and on-demand availability.
The condition leaves a child short in stature and prone to developing a hunchback.
1.1dated, offensive A person with a hunchback.
Definition of hunchback in US English:
hunchback
nounˈhən(t)SHbakˈhən(t)ʃbæk
1A back deformed by a sharp forward angle, forming a hump, typically caused by collapse of a vertebra.
（尤指因椎骨坍陷而导致的）驼背
Example sentencesExamples
You'd see old ladies with hunchbacks, who had been harvesting their whole lives.
She was petite and had a dowager's hump or minor hunchback.
Gus is self-consciously aware of his hunchback and tries to stand taller than everyone else, with tough-as-nails determination and on-demand availability.
The condition leaves a child short in stature and prone to developing a hunchback.
A jolly, easy-go-lucky fellow who hides all his sorrow within and portrays a comical figure, laughing at himself and about his hunchback.
This was so from the very beginning, for the supposed peculiarities of his birth and the hunchback, for which he is renowned, were but inventions to signify evil.