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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
humpback
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a humpback bridgeBritish English (= a short bridge with a steep slope at each side)
humpback whale
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
whale
▪ Ken Bradshaw and I were singing songs to one another like a pair of humpback whales.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A little way along the lane is a humpback bridge that crosses a stream.
▪ Ken Bradshaw and I were singing songs to one another like a pair of humpback whales.
▪ Roads with unexpected humpback bridges, tightening-radius corners and reasonably free of police and radar traps.
▪ The numbers of humpback and fin whales had undergone similar increases.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Humpback

Humpback \Hump"back`\, n. [Cf. Hunchback.]

  1. A crooked back; a humped back.
    --Tatler.

  2. A humpbacked person; a hunchback.

  3. (Zo["o]l.)

    1. Any whale of the genus Megaptera, characterized by a hump or bunch on the back. Several species are known. The most common ones in the North Atlantic are Megaptera longimana of Europe, and Megaptera osphyia of America; that of the California coasts is Megaptera versabilis.

    2. A small salmon ( Oncorhynchus gorbuscha), of the northwest coast of America; the humpbacked salmon.

Wiktionary
humpback

n. 1 A humped back 2 A person with a humpback: hunchback 3 A person who suffers from kyphosis 4 A humpback whale 5 A humpback salmon.

WordNet
humpback
  1. n. an abnormal backward curve to the vertebral column [syn: kyphosis, hunchback]

  2. a person whose back is hunched because of abnormal curvature of the upper spine [syn: hunchback, crookback]

  3. large whalebone whale with long flippers noted for arching or humping its back as it dives [syn: humpback whale, Megaptera novaeangliae]

Wikipedia
Humpback

Humpback may refer to:

  • Humpback whale
  • Humpback dolphin
  • Humpback salmon
  • Humpback bridge
  • Humpback, a common name for the fish Chanodichthys dabryi
  • Humpback, a variant of hunchback

Usage examples of "humpback".

A movie director would have made up such a monster as this humpback to haunt a spooky castle.

He did not get far with the laugh, because the humpback grabbed his mouth with rough fierceness.

There seemed to be nothing much between themselves and freedom but a humpback who did not appear to amount to much.

The humpback led the retreat, bending low, for there was still shooting.

Them other fellers, that humpback and his convicts, just ran in, grabbed their prisoners and ran away again!

The man was walking toward the corner when a humpback stepped out of a doorway.

He was shot, as soon afterward as the humpback could pull trigger, in the right eye, the forehead, the right ear, successively.

Sandy Yell, or Sandy McGinnis, as Doc had learned in eavesdropping upon the conversation with the humpback master mind.

They had removed her humpback regalia and made it into a bundle which they carried along.

I was to wear the humpback disguise and go to Doc, reveal my identity and tell him I had learned where the secret of the whole mystery could be cleared up.

The humpback, it was noted, did not move with a great deal of agility.

They had been warned against a humpback, and although they believed the humpback had been Doc Savage in disguise, they were alert.

They had, as a matter of fact, observed the humpback in better light on other occasions.

The humpback seemed bothered not at all by the terrific uproar outside, and it would certainly be but a matter of minutes until the police broke in.

Ham was being wiped away, but now it whined more freely and the humpback moved the electrodes toward Doc and Monk.