hollow back

American  

noun

Bookbinding.

1. a paper tube or roll, almost flattened, having one side glued to the back of a book and the other to the inside of the spine.

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hollow-back British  

noun

1. pathol the nontechnical name for lordosis Compare hunchback

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Other Word Forms

• hollow-backed adjective

Example Sentences

I sneaked out a quart jar of peaches, some cold corn bread, and a few onions, and started up the hollow back of our house.

From "Where the Red Fern Grows" by Wilson Rawls

But more comical far, those creatures above, on its hollow back, clinging thereto like the snaky eels, that cling and slide on the back of the Sword fish, our terrible foe.

From Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. I by Melville, Herman

The strings a-tighten'd lik' to crack Athirt the canister's tin zide, Did reach, a glitt'rèn, zide by zide, Above the humstrum's hollow back.

From Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect by Barnes, William

His figure was very muscular and upright, with a hollow back and lean flanks.

From Bella Donna A Novel by Hichens, Robert Smythe

In the brush and along the river's edge where the cottonwoods stood, and in every little coulee, or hollow, back of the camps.

From Six Little Bunkers at Cowboy Jack's by Hope, Laura Lee