brokeback

See also: Brokeback

English

Etymology 1

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

Adjective

brokeback (not comparable)

(rare) hunchbacked
Damn those brokeback tramps making a mess of our city.
(rare) broken; derelict
The brokeback bridges in the hills sadden me: this place used to be beautiful.

Translations

hunchbacked — see hunchbacked

derelict — see derelict

Etymology 2

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

Adjective

brokeback (not comparable)

(slang, neologism) Homoerotic; 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.

Alternative forms

Brokeback

Translations

(slang) homoerotic — See also translations at homoerotic

Chinese:
Mandarin: 斷背 (zh), 断背 (zh) (duànbèi)

Portuguese: bicha (pt), gay (pt)

See also

stem the rose

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