What does HUMP mean?

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. bulge, bump, hump, swelling, gibbosity, gibbousness, jut, prominence, protuberance, protrusion, extrusion, excrescenceverb

    something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings

    "the gun in his pocket made an obvious bulge"; "the hump of a camel"; "he stood on the rocky prominence"; "the occipital protuberance was well developed"; "the bony excrescence between its horns"

  2. hunch, hump, hunch forward, hunch oververb

    round one's back by bending forward and drawing the shoulders forward

  3. sleep together, roll in the hay, love, make out, make love, sleep with, get laid, have sex, know, do it, be intimate, have intercourse, have it away, have it off, screw, fuck, jazz, eff, hump, lie with, bed, have a go at it, bang, get it on, bonkverb

    have sexual intercourse with

    "This student sleeps with everyone in her dorm"; "Adam knew Eve"; "Were you ever intimate with this man?"

GCIDE

  1. Humpnoun

    (Railroad) a portion of a switchyard with a slanting track in which freight cars may coast without an engine and be sorted through a series of switches.

  2. Humpverb

    (Railroad) to sort freight cars by means of a hump.

Wiktionary

  1. humpnoun

    A mound of earth.

  2. humpnoun

    A rounded mass, especially a fleshy mass such as on a camel.

  3. humpnoun

    A deformity in humans caused by abnormal curvature of the upper spine.

  4. humpnoun

    An act of sexual intercourse.

  5. humpnoun

    A bad mood, especially in the expression to have the hump.

  6. humpnoun

    A painfully boorish person.

    That guy is such a hump!

  7. humpverb

    To bend something into a hump.

  8. humpverb

    To carry something, especially with some exertion.

  9. humpverb

    To carry, especially with some exertion.

  10. humpverb

    To dry-hump.

  11. humpverb

    To have sex with.

  12. humpverb

    To have sex.

  13. Humpnoun

    The Himalayas, as the challenge for the supply route between India and China.

    The C-47s could not make it over the Hump with a full load and full tanks.

  14. Etymology: Probably from homp or Hump, Humpe, from *, from humpaz, from kumb-. Cognate with hompe, huppur, Welsh cwm, Latin incumbo, Albanian sumbull, Ancient Greek κύμβη, Avestan, Sanskrit कुम्ब). Replaced, and perhaps influenced by, crump. More at cramp.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Humpnoun

    The protuberance formed by a crooked back.

    Etymology: corrupted perhaps from bump.

    These defects were mended by succeeding matches; the eyes were opened in the next generation, and the hump fell. Tatler, №. 74.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Humpnoun

    a protuberance; especially, the protuberance formed by a crooked back

  2. Humpnoun

    a fleshy protuberance on the back of an animal, as a camel or whale

  3. Etymology: [Cf. D. homp a lump, LG. hump heap, hill, stump, possibly akin to E. heap. Cf. Hunch.]

Wikidata

  1. Hump

    Hump is a fictional character, a mutant in the Marvel Comics Universe. His first appearance was in New Mutants #91.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Hump

    hump, n. a lump or hunch upon the back.—v.t. to bend in a hump: (U.S. slang) to prepare for a great exertion: (slang) to vex or annoy.—v.i. to put forth effort.—n. Hump′back, a back with a hump or hunch: a person with a humpback.—adjs. Hump′backed, having a humpback; Humped, having a hump on the back; Hump′y, full of humps or protuberances. [Prob. a nasalised form of heap.]

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of HUMP in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of HUMP in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of HUMP in a Sentence

  1. Edward Lampert:

    Let me be the first one to acknowledge we are on the right path but we haven't gotten over the hump. We need to convert our vision into reality.

  2. Alexander Zverev:

    I'm young, so I might as well stay on court and practise a little bit, it's the best, a five-set match. It is the first time Alexander Zverev has reached the quarter-finals of a Grand Slam and Alexander Zverev will face Austrian seventh seed Dominic Thiem, who beat Japan's Kei Nishikori 6-2 6-0 5-7 6-4. Nishikori took his only break point opportunity to claim the third set but Thiem, twice Roland Garros semi-finalist, regained control in the fourth. Former champion Novak Djokovic never looked in trouble as he booked a 12th quarter-final appearance in Paris with a 6-3 6-4 6-2 win over Spanish veteran Fernando Verdasco. French Open runner-up Madison Keys advanced to the last eight without dropping a set, defeating Romania's Mihaela Buzarnescu 6-1 6-4. Up next for Keys is Kazakh Yulia Putintseva, who upset 26th seed Czech Barbora Strycova 6-4 6-3. American Stephens sprinted past Estonian Anett Kontaveit 6-2 6-0 to set up a potential semi-final meeting with Keys, whom Anett Kontaveit beat in last year's U.S. Open final. Highlights from day eight( all times GMT :. Play was suspended due to fading light, with Russian Daria Kasatkina leading 7-6( 5) 3-3 against second-seeded Caroline Wozniacki. Zverev's days of living dangerously go on. Roland Garros ready for' legendary' match against Zverev in Paris. Djokovic tames Verdasco to reach last eight. Italian Cecchinato upsets Goffin to reach last eight. American Stephens and Keys on collision course after overcoming French Open hump. Alexander Zverev rocks on by living on the edge. Keys enjoys Sunday stroll into French quarters. Djokovic douses Verdasco fire, unhappy with courts. Impressive Thiem downs Nishikori to set up Alexander Zverev clash. Serena and Sharapova ready to sharpen the edge. Impressive Putintseva stuns Czech Barbora Strycova 6-4 6-3 to reach Paris quarters. Italian Marco Cecchinato, who had never won a Grand Slam match before this week, beat eighth-seeded Belgian David Goffin 7-5 4-6 6-0 6-3 to reach Grand Slam first major quarter-final. At world number 72, Marco Cecchinato becomes the lowest-ranked man to reach the last eight in Paris since Latvian Ernests Gulbis( ranked 80) in 2008. He will next face 2016 champion Novak Djokovic for a place in the final four.

  3. Steve Sosnick:

    The shape of the (volatility) curve definitely is upward sloping but it's not like there is a huge hump out in November.

  4. Kevin Costner:

    It is one of those leap of faith movies, Could this happen? We are dealing with memory exchange. We're dealing it with animals, of course. I think no doubt though if the world was in the balance, I don't think they'd have a problem risking someone's life like they did with me, so I just try to play it honest. I know it's a big leap. I know when something's really grounded and we know when we have to make a big leap but movies can do that and we try to and I hope we got over that hump.

  5. Matt LaFleur:

    I think we'd be crazy not to want him back here. He's going to be the two-time MVP, this guy does so much for our football team, not only what you guys see on Sunday's or every game day, but what he does in that locker room, how he leads. I know what he puts into this thing, and certainly I'm extremely disappointed in that we couldn't get over the hump for not only him, but for everybody in that locker room.

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