Usually means: Curved spine, sagging back condition.
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General (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. sway-backed: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. sway-backed, sway-backed: Collins English Dictionary
  3. sway-backed: Wordnik
  4. sway-backed: Wiktionary
  5. Sway-backed: Dictionary.com
  6. Sway-backed: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  7. Sway-backed: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  8. sway-backed: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  9. Sway-backed: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  10. sway-backed: FreeDictionary.org
  11. Sway-backed: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. Sway-backed: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sway-backed: Medical dictionary

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▸ adjective:  Alternative spelling of swaybacked [Having a sagged back.]

Similar:
swag-bellied, swept-back, spraddle-legged, squeejawed, swept-wing, bowlegged, weakwilled, swept wing, satcheled, sidewhiskered, more...

Opposite:
straight-backed, erect, upright, uncurved

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Similar:
swag-bellied, swept-back, spraddle-legged, squeejawed, swept-wing, bowlegged, weakwilled, swept wing, satcheled, sidewhiskered, more...

Opposite:
straight-backed, erect, upright, uncurved



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