brokeback

1. not comparablerareHunchbacked.

   Damn those brokeback tramps making a mess of our city.

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   ... his sickle-curved posture made him look as though his back were broken: a sad little brokeback dwarf crippled with age.

   1948, Truman Capote, Other Voices, Other Rooms, Part One, 1

2. not comparablerareBroken; derelict.

   The brokeback bridges in the hills sadden me: this place used to be beautiful.

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   There will be underground rivers, vast and wide, and huge cavernous killing zones with mist-wreathed stalagmite islands and waterfalls thundering into the subterranean depths — and stepping-stones and brokeback bridges to traverse under ...

   2007, Charles Stross, Halting State, →ISBN, page 134

   As he drove Webb looked out at the brokeback houses, the ancient cars rusting in dirt driveways. At the ruined furniture in the weeds and ruptured refrigerators and stoves lying on their sides in the front yards. Disgraceful how they lived ...

   2014, James W. Hall, The Big Finish: A Thorn Novel, →ISBN

alternative Brokeback

1. neologismnot comparableslangHomoerotic; homosexual, gay.

   I don't really think Frodo and Sam were gay, even if a couple of the scenes seemed a little brokeback to me.

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   You see, your words ain't worth no money, I ain't spoke back, bitch All of you niggas hang together on some Brokeback shit

   2023, “Talk'n That Shit!”, in Michael, performed by Killer Mike

1. alternativenot comparableAlternative spelling of brokeback in the homosexual sense.