Hump meaning

hŭmp
The definition of a hump is a rounded lump or bump.

An example of a hump is a rounded mass on someone's back caused by a curve in the spine.

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To hurry.
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A rounded mass or protuberance, such as the fleshy structure on the back of a camel or of some cattle.
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Hump is defined as to hunch over or arch the back, to hurry or to use a lot of energy, or is vulgar slang to mean having sexual intercourse.

An example of hump is to walk bent over with the shoulders down.

An example of hump is to race through the day.

An example of hump is to have sex with someone.

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(slang) A painfully boorish person.

That guy is such a hump!

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A rounded, protruding lump.
  • Such a lump resulting from kyphosis.
  • The fleshy mass on the back of a camel.
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A fit of depression; an emotional slump.
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To bend or round into a hump; arch.
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To engage in sexual intercourse with.
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To exert oneself.
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To engage in sexual intercourse.
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A hummock; mound.
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A fit of melancholy.
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To hunch; arch.

The cat humped its back.

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To carry on the back.
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To have sexual intercourse with.
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To exert oneself.
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To hurry.
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A rounded mass or protuberance, such as the fleshy structure on the back of a camel or of some cattle.
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A deformity of the back in humans caused by an abnormal convex curvature of the upper spine.
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To bend or round into a hump; arch.
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A mound of earth.
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A rounded mass, especially a fleshy mass such as on a camel.
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A speed hump.
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A deformity in humans caused by abnormal curvature of the upper spine.
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(slang) An act of sexual intercourse.
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(UK, slang) A bad mood.

Get the hump, have the hump, take the hump.

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To bend something into a hump.
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(slang) To carry something, especially with some exertion.
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(intransitive, slang) To carry, especially with some exertion.
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(intransitive) To dry-hump.
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(slang) To have sex with.
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(intransitive, slang) To have sex.
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(historical, World War 2, slang) 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.

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A deformity of the back in humans caused by an abnormal convex curvature of the upper spine.
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The act or an instance of having sexual intercourse.
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over the hump
  • Past the worst or most difficult part or stage:.
    At last I'm over the hump on my term paper.
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over the hump
  • Over the worst or most difficult part.
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Idioms and Phrasal Verbs

over the hump
over the hump

Origin of hump

  • Probably of Low German origin
    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
  • Probably from Dutch homp (“hump, lump”) or Middle Low German hump (“heap, hill, stump”), from Old Saxon *hump (“hill, heap, thick piece”), from Proto-Germanic *humpaz (“hip, height”), from Proto-Indo-European *kumb-, *kumbʰ- (“curved”).
    From Wiktionary

Hump Sentence Examples

  • The visceral hump is low and not drawn out into a spire.

  • In the Green Mountains the highest point, Mansfield, is 4364 ft.; Lincoln (4078), Killington (4241), Camel Hump (4088); and a number of other heights exceed 3000 ft.

  • This animal sometimes attains the height of 20 hands (close on 7 ft.), measuring from the hump above the shoulder.

  • A hump on the forehead probably indicates the existence of a large frontal horn.

  • Hinder part of visceral hump. Posterior extremity of the foot.

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