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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

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

With two outs, Zimmerman shattered his bat but dumped a beautiful, humpbacked flare into center field for a single.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 2, 2019

As once again the day wore to its end they came to long treeless slopes, where the land rose, swelling up towards a line of low humpbacked downs ahead.

From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien


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