English

Proper noun

Hump

1. (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.

English

Noun

hump ‎(plural humps)

1. A mound of earth.
2. A rounded mass, especially a fleshy mass such as on a camel.
3. A speed hump.
4. (Discuss⁽⁺⁾ this sense) A deformity in humans caused by abnormal curvature of the upper spine.
5. (slang) An act of sexual intercourse.
6. (Britain, slang) A bad mood.

   get the hump, have the hump, take the hump., give someone the hump.

7. (slang) A painfully boorish person.

   That guy is such a hump!

Synonyms

• (abnormal deformity of the spine): gibbous, humpback, hunch, hunchback

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See also

• over the hump
• hump day
• speed hump

Verb

hump ‎(third-person singular simple present humps, present participle humping, simple past and past participle humped)

1. (transitive) To bend something into a hump.
   • Theodore Roosevelt

     The cattle were very uncomfortable, standing humped up in the bushes.

2. (transitive, intransitive) To carry (something), especially with some exertion.
3. (transitive, intransitive) To dry-hump.

   Stop humping the table, you sicko.‎

4. (transitive, intransitive) To have sex (with).

Derived terms

• dry-hump
• hump it

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