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Definition of Crookbacks
1. crookback [n] - See also: crookback
Lexicographical Neighbors of Crookbacks
Literary usage of Crookbacks
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. History of Piedmont by Antonio Carlo Napoleone Gallenga (1855)
"... no ruthless crookbacks, murdering their wards for the sake of their heritage,
but the regents of Savoy (during their first period, of the counts, ..."
2. Ambrose Fecit, Or, The Peer and the Printer: A Novel by Thomas Dunn English (1867)
"Both fell, and their swords flying out of their hands, the curtain fell on the
rival crookbacks engaged in a supine position, in a game of fisticuffs. ..."
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