brokeback

Meaning

Adjective

Origin

  • break + back; first used for "hunchback" in Carson McCullers' 1943 novella The Ballad of the Sad CafĂ©.
  • From the title of Annie Proulx's 1997 short story "Brokeback Mountain"; popularised by the 2005 film of the same name.

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