Usually means: Curvature of the upper spine.
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We found 32 dictionaries that define the word hunchback:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. hunchback: Merriam-Webster
  2. hunchback: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. hunchback: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. hunchback: Collins English Dictionary
  5. hunchback: Vocabulary.com
  6. Hunchback, hunchback: Wordnik
  7. hunchback: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. hunchback: Wiktionary
  9. hunchback: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. hunchback: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. hunchback: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. hunchback: Dictionary.com
  13. hunchback: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Hunchback (disambiguation), Hunchback (video game), Hunchback, The Hunchback (EP): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Hunchback: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. hunchback: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. hunchback: Rhymezone
  18. Hunchback: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. Hunchback: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  20. hunchback: FreeDictionary.org
  21. hunchback: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. hunchback: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. hunchback: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. hunchback: Encyclopedia

Medicine (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. hunchback: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. hunchback: Medical dictionary
  4. Rudy's List of Archaic Medical Terms (No longer online)
  5. University of Maryland Glossary of Medical Terms (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. hunchback: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
▸ noun:  One who is stooped or hunched over.
▸ noun:  A deformed upper spinal column in the shape of a hump in the back.
▸ noun:  (derogatory) A person with kyphosis, a spinal deformity that causes a hunched over appearance.

Similar:
crookbacked, humped, humpback, unfit, kyphosis, huncher, hunkerer, slouching, lord, stooper, more...

Types:
kyphosis, lordosis, scoliosis, more...

Phrases:
The Hunchback of Notre Dame, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame, The Hunchback of Notre Dame II, Pepin the Hunchback, Godfrey the Hunchback, more...

Adjectives:
little, poor, old, ugly, small, young, deformed, eyed, slight, hideous, wretched



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Similar:
crookbacked, humped, humpback, unfit, kyphosis, huncher, hunkerer, slouching, lord, stooper, more...

Types:
kyphosis, lordosis, scoliosis, more...

Phrases:
The Hunchback of Notre Dame, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame, The Hunchback of Notre Dame II, Pepin the Hunchback, Godfrey the Hunchback, more...

Adjectives:
little, poor, old, ugly, small, young, deformed, eyed, slight, hideous, wretched



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