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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

He said his car went off the narrow, humpbacked bridge and plunged into the pond.

From Washington Times Jul. 16, 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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