Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Shaped like a hump or an arching curve.
- n. New Orleans A narrow house with one story in front and two in the rear. See Regional Note at beignet.
Wiktionary
- n. uncountable The backs of camels.
- n. countable A flexible water container worn on the back.
- n. countable A house with a second storey that does not completely cover the ground floor.
- n. countable A railway locomotive that has its cab in the middle as opposed to at the end.
- n. countable A camelback sofa or chair.
- n. uncountable A type of rubber used in tyre restoration.
- adj. furniture Having a shaped back; particularly a shape with a raised middle.
- adj. more generically Anything shaped like the back of a camel.
Etymologies
- camel + back (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Just today, trotting down Hollywood Boulevard on camelback with two fellow members of the CIA that's what we mischievously named our Communist Islamic Alliance!”
“I throw an mre in my pack with a full camelback of water.”
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“Leave it to Paris Hilton to take “cavorting on camelback” to new heights.”
“Well .... thanks to you I go to the library instead of buying new books, We got a water filter on our sink and I use my camelback water bottle, that has saved us a TON on buying bottled water.”
“I like to grab my 3wt orvis superfine, rucksack with camelback and hit up the mountain streams for brookies.”
“As a CBRN officer I get an issued camelback and rig it to my stabby when very hot and on foot, but I spend most of my time in a panda which thankfully has air con.”
“Bring it on then find me a box big enough to post my NATO helmet, pads, covvies, boots, respirator, camelback (this may not make it back to stores ….) on November 27, 2009 at 2: 18 pm kKop”
“Muhammed was convinced I would enjoy being conveyed on camelback.”
“Are they going to attack us with a tribe of renegades on camelback?”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘camelback’.
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Compounds That Look Freakish
You know who you are, freakish compounds. Though very useful, some of these words just don't seem right together--or, their meanings are so far from what the two (or more) component words suggest t...
nightjar, bullfinch, grassquit, bananaquit, ovenbird, waxwing, stonechat, wheatear, bushtit, wrentit, starthroat, godwit and 158 more...
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Listless
Nowhere else to put these yet.
sibilant, cloying, pithy, apologia, odyssey, amanuensis, pleasantries, ginormous, burnish, sojourn, quonset, over-under and 217 more...
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Words of Whimsy & Grace
abecedary, addendum, ampersand, anachronism, avuncular, balderdash, barnacle, befuddle, behemoth, bejeebers, blabbermouth, blatherskite and 465 more...
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Adjectival Arcana
A roster of adjectives that infrequently surface in typical conversation and writing. Many are dredged from scientific or other technical jargon or sieved from examples of disused archaic forms.
unitegmic, acaulescent, reticuloendothelial, ingressive, uniate, acanthopterygian, ossific, epiphysial, perivisceral, acœlomatous, cestoid, acælomate and 7756 more...
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Front and Back
backchat, backbone, backpack, backhoe, backfire, backhanded, breakfront, beachfront, drawback, effrontery, frontier, switchback and 196 more...
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Nawlins
Words of New Orleans and Louisana.
jeet, Yat, jazz, krewe, NOLA, camelback, muffuletta, Fat Tuesday, Ramos gin fizz, Mardi Gras, cush-cush, faubourg and 20 more...
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Exotic Color Names
Single-word names of colors.
bisque, chartreuse, cornsilk, gainsboro, roseate, verdigris, carmine, dahlia, vermilion, puce, cinereal, muslin and 41 more...
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word set 5
sapidity, devolved, mincingly, zootechnics, eschatology, tribulations, peccadillo, anorgasmia, hermaphrodite, serial monogamy, freethinker, sorceress and 83 more...
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