brokeback
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.51 in modern English
23
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
adj
Alternative spelling of brokeback in the homosexual sense.
Example Sentences
- "Damn those brokeback tramps making a mess of our city."
- "... his sickle-curved posture made him look as though his back were broken: a sad little brokeback dwarf crippled with age."
- "The brokeback bridges in the hills sadden me: this place used to be beautiful."
- "There will be underground rivers, vast and wide, and huge cavernous killing zones with mist-wreathed stalagmite islands and waterfalls thundering into the subterranean depths — and stepping-stones and brokeback bridges to traverse under ..."
- "As he drove Webb looked out at the brokeback houses, the ancient cars rusting in dirt driveways. At the ruined furniture in the weeds and ruptured refrigerators and stoves lying on their sides in the front yards. Disgraceful how they lived ..."
- "I don't really think Frodo and Sam were gay, even if a couple of the scenes seemed a little brokeback to me."