Adjective
(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.
Origin
break + back; First used for hunchback in Carson McCullers 1943 short story, The Ballad of the Sad Café
Adjective
(not comparable)
- (slang, neologism) Of or pertaining to homosexuality.
- I don't really think Frodo and Sam were gay, even if a couple of the scenes seemed a little brokeback to me.
Origin
From the title of Annie Proulx's 1997 short story Brokeback Mountain; popularised by the 2005 film of the same name.
