Definition of "crook-backed" []

• Having a crooked back; hunchbacked.

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "To recover, Mia flees to her tiny childhood hometown in Minnesota to teach poetry to a group of girls and spend time with her mother and the wise, crook-backed women in her mother's retirement community one of whom charms Mia with a secret stash of erotic needlepoint."
• "An Auspice of Hearthkeeper stood in our way, a crook-backed ancient with a blue shawl concealing her mouth."
• "Galba the emperor was crook-backed, Epictetus lame: that great"