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brokeback

The origin and history of brokeback.

Etymology

A compound of "break" and "back," first used in the 1940s for a hunched or bent back; it entered wider popular use after the 2005 film Brokeback Mountain.

· First attested 2005

Class of 2005

brokeback first entered the language around 2005. Other words from the same year:

Poe
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