Hump HUMP, n. [L.umbo.] The protuberance formed by a crooked back; as a camel with one hump,or two humps.

hump n 1: 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" [syn: bulge, bump, hump, swelling, gibbosity, gibbousness, jut, prominence, protuberance, protrusion, extrusion, excrescence] v 1: round one's back by bending forward and drawing the shoulders forward [syn: hunch, hump, hunch forward, hunch over] 2: have sexual intercourse with; "This student sleeps with everyone in her dorm"; "Adam knew Eve"; "Were you ever intimate with this man?" [syn: 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, bonk]

hump 1681 (in hump-backed), from Du. homp "lump," from M.L.G. hump "bump," from P.Gmc. *khump-. Replaced, or perhaps influenced by, O.E. crump. A meaning attested from 1901 is "mound in a railway yard over which cars must be pushed," which may be behind the fig. sense of "critical point of an undertaking" (1914). The verb meaning "to do the sex act with" is attested from 1785, but the source of this indicates it is an older word. Humpback whale is from 1725.

hump hʌmp See: OVER THE HUMP.

hump I. noun Etymology: akin to Middle Low German hump bump, Dutch homp lump, chunk, Frisian homp, himp Date: 1681 1. a rounded protuberance: as a. humpback 1 b. a fleshy protuberance on the back of an animal (as a camel, bison, or whale) c. (1) mound, hummock (2) mountain, range <the Himalayan hump> 2. British a fit of depression or sulking 3. a difficult, trying, or critical phase or obstacle — often used in the phrase over the hump • humped adjective II. verb Date: circa 1785 transitive verb 1. often vulgar to copulate with 2. to exert (oneself) vigorously 3. to make humpbacked ; hunch 4. chiefly British to put or carry on the back ; lug; also transport intransitive verb 1. to exert oneself ; hustle 2. to move swiftly ; race

hump
n. & v.
--n.
1 a rounded protuberance on the back of a camel etc., or as an abnormality on a person's back.
2 a rounded raised mass of earth etc.
3 a mound over which railway vehicles are pushed so as to run by gravity to the required place in a marshalling yard.
4 a critical point in an undertaking, ordeal, etc.
5 (prec. by the) Brit. sl. a fit of depression or vexation (it gives me the hump).
--v.tr.
1 a (often foll. by about) colloq. lift or carry (heavy objects etc.) with difficulty. b esp. Austral. hoist up, shoulder (one's pack etc.).
2 make hump-shaped.
3 annoy, depress.
4 coarse sl. have sexual intercourse with.
Usage:
In sense 4 usually considered a taboo word.
Phrases and idioms:
hump bridge = humpback bridge. live on one's hump colloq. be self-sufficient. over the hump over the worst; well begun.
Derivatives:
humped adj. humpless adj.
Etymology: 17th c.: perh. rel. to LG humpel hump, LG humpe, Du. homp lump, hunk (of bread)

hump (humps, humping, humped) 1. A hump is a small hill or raised area. The path goes over a large hump by a tree before running near a road. = mound N-COUNT 2. A camel's hump is the large lump on its back. N-COUNT 3. A hump is a large lump on a person's back, usually caused by illness or old age. N-COUNT: oft poss N 4. If you hump something heavy, you carry it from one place to another with great difficulty. (BRIT INFORMAL) Charlie humped his rucksack up the stairs to his flat. = lug VERB: V n prep/adv 5. If someone gets the hump, they get very annoyed about something. (BRIT INFORMAL) Fans just get the hump when they lose. PHRASE: V inflects

hump hʌmp n. & v. --n. 1 a rounded protuberance on the back of a camel etc., or as an abnormality on a person's back. 2 a rounded raised mass of earth etc. 3 a mound over which railway vehicles are pushed so as to run by gravity to the required place in a marshalling yard. 4 a critical point in an undertaking, ordeal, etc. 5 (prec. by the) Brit. sl. a fit of depression or vexation (it gives me the hump). --v.tr. 1 a (often foll. by about) colloq. lift or carry (heavy objects etc.) with difficulty. b esp. Austral. hoist up, shoulder (one's pack etc.). 2 make hump-shaped. 3 annoy, depress. 4 coarse sl. have sexual intercourse with. °In sense 4 usually considered a taboo word. øhump bridge = humpback bridge. live on one's hump colloq. be self-sufficient. over the hump over the worst; well begun. øøhumped adj. humpless adj. [17th c.: perh. rel. to LG humpel hump, LG humpe, Du. homp lump, hunk (of bread)]

HUMP To hump; once a fashionable word for copulation.

Hump \Hump\, v. t. 1. To form into a hump; to make hump-shaped; to hunch; -- often with up. The cattle were very uncomfortable, standing humped up in the bushes. --T. Roosvelt. 2. To put or carry on the (humped) back; to shoulder; hence, to carry, in general. [Slang, Australia] Having collected a sufficient quantity, we humped it out of the bush. --C. L. Money. 3. To bend or gather together for strenuous effort, as in running; to do or effect by such effort; to exert; -- usually reflexively or with it; as, you must hump yourself. [Slang, U. S.] A half dozen other negroes, some limping and all scared, were humping it across a meadow. --McClure's Mag.

Hump \Hump\, n. [Cf. D. homp a lump, LG. hump heap, hill, stump, possibly akin to E. heap. Cf. Hunch.] 1. A protuberance; especially, the protuberance formed by a crooked back. 2. (Zo["o]l.) A fleshy protuberance on the back of an animal, as a camel or whale.

hump hʌmp n. 1 bulge, lump, bump, protuberance, protrusion, projection, knob, node, mass, hunch, enlargement, swelling, growth, excrescence, tumefaction, tumescence; mound, barrow, tell, hummock, hillock, tumulus, Brit dialect tump: Digging into the hump near the trees, we uncovered an ancient burial-ground. --v. 2 hunch, arch, curve, crook, bend: Sulking in the corner, he humped his back and refused to speak to anyone. 3 drag, lug, haul, carry, heave: She had to hump two heavy suitcases all the way from the railway station.

168 Moby Thesaurus words for "hump": Everest, Olympus, alp, arch, barrow, bear, bend, bend back, bilge, blain, bleb, blister, blob, bolt, boss, bow, bubble, buck, buckle down, bulb, bulge, bulla, bump, bunch, burl, button, cahot, career, carry, chine, clump, condyle, convex, convey, crook, curl, curve, dart, dash, decurve, deflect, dome, dowel, drag, ear, embow, endeavor, enlargement, excrescence, ferry, flange, flap, flex, fling, gall, get cracking, get cutting, gnarl, go all out, growth, handle, haste, hasten, haul, heave, hie, hill, hillock, hit the ball, hook, hop to it, hotfoot, hummock, hump it, hunch, hurry, hurtle, incurvate, incurve, inflect, jog, joggle, knob, knot, knuckle down, knur, knurl, la, lay to, lean on it, lip, lofty mountains, loop, lug, lump, make haste, mass, mole, mound, mount, mountain, nevus, node, nub, nubbin, nubble, papilloma, peg, ply the oar, post, pour it on, projection, protrusion, protuberance, race, recurve, reflect, reflex, retroflex, rib, ridge, ring, round, rush, sag, scamper, scoot, scour, scramble, scud, scurry, scuttle, shag ass, shake a leg, shake it up, shoot, shoulder, skedaddle, snap to it, spare no effort, spine, step on it, stud, style, swag, sweep, swelling, tab, tear, tear ass, tell, the wooded mountains, tor, towering alps, transport, tubercle, tubercule, tumefaction, tumescence, tumulus, turn, vault, verruca, vesicle, wale, wart, welt, wind

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