Etymology

brokeback

B3R1O1K5E1B3A1C3K5

Today it means: Hunchbacked. Full definition →

Ask AI about its historyChatGPTClaudePerplexityGoogle AIGrok

brokeback · adjective1

From break + back; first used for "hunchback" in Carson McCullers' 1943 novella The Ballad of the Sad Café.

brokeback · adjective2

From the title of Annie Proulx's 1997 short story "Brokeback Mountain"; popularised by the 2005 film of the same name.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.