Usually means: Warped or damaged; structurally compromised.
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  1. broken-backed: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. broken-backed: Vocabulary.com
  3. broken-backed: Wordnik
  4. broken-backed: Wiktionary
  5. Broken-backed, broken-backed: Dictionary.com
  6. Broken-backed: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  7. broken-backed: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  8. broken-backed: Rhymezone
  9. Broken-backed: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  10. broken-backed: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  11. broken-backed: Free Dictionary
  12. broken-backed: Mnemonic Dictionary
  13. Broken-backed: Dictionary/thesaurus

Definitions from Wiktionary (broken-backed)

adjective:  Having a broken back.
adjective:  (nautical, of a ship) Drooping at each end because of a damaged spine.
adjective:  Decrepit, weakened.
adjective:  (military) Of a war or warfare: continuing after the main force has been destroyed or significantly weakened, for example after a devastating nuclear strike.

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