brokeback

== English == === Pronunciation === === Etymology 1 === From break +‎ back; first used for "hunchback" in Carson McCullers' 1943 novella The Ballad of the Sad Café. ==== Adjective ==== brokeback (not comparable) (rare) Hunchbacked. (rare) Broken; derelict. ===== Translations ===== === 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. For more quotations using this term, see Citations:brokeback. ===== Alternative forms ===== Brokeback ===== Derived terms ===== ===== Translations =====