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hʌmphump

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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.

ChatGPT

  1. hump

    A hump is a bump or raised part on a surface, object, or body, which is usually rounded or curved in shape. It can also refer to an increase or peak in level, amount or degree in a particular aspect, often referring to a difficulty or obstacle that needs to be overcome.

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. Robert Atkinson:

    You just needed a big push to get places over the hump.

  2. Mark Knight:

    The roof of the building collapsed, and what's fantastic is that there is a sort of hump beneath that center, which suggests the contents of the building are underneath the roof as well. So over the next few weeks we will take the roof away and see what's underneath.

  3. Vince Williams:

    We couldn't get over the hump, but we just kept fighting to the end of the game.

  4. Evan Wasch:

    We think we’re sort of over the hump in terms of the meat of the postponements.

  5. Patrick Murray:

    In the past, when we've seen a' rally around the flag' effect, it's generally been around every aspect of Washington from the president on down, and here we see results, perhaps for the first time, where The Republicans just really can't get over the hump of saying that' This is a president of a different party, ergo, I'm going to judge The Republicans differently than I judge the actions that are being taken.'.

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