hump

/hʌmp/
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hump

The camel's hump stores fat for long desert journeys.

Definition

  1. Noun:

    • A rounded lump or protuberance: A hump is a rounded, often permanent, raised area on a surface, especially on the back of an animal or a person.
    • A difficult or critical point: Informally, a hump can refer to the most challenging part of a process or period.

  2. Verb:

    • To arch into a hump: To bend or curve the back upward, creating a rounded shape.
    • Vulgar slang: To have sexual intercourse with someone.
    • To carry or lift something heavy, especially on the back or shoulders: To transport a load with effort.
Usage Examples

  • Noun:

    • The dromedary camel has a single large hump on its back.
    • The project is finally over the hump; the hardest part is done.

  • Verb:

    • The cat will hump its back when it feels threatened.
    • (Vulgar) The crude joke suggested the man wanted to hump his neighbor.
    • We had to hump all our camping gear up the mountain trail.
Advanced Usage

  • "Over the hump": Past the most difficult part of a task or period.

    • After working 80-hour weeks for a month, the team is finally over the hump.

  • "Get the hump" / "Have the hump" (British informal): To become or be annoyed, sulky, or in a bad mood.

    • He really got the hump when he wasn't invited to the meeting.
Variants and Related Words

  • Humped (adj): Having a hump or shaped like a hump.

    • The humped bridge over the river was very picturesque.

  • Humpback (n): A back deformed by a hump; also a type of whale.

    • We saw a humpback whale breach the surface.
Synonyms
  • Noun (for a protuberance): Bump, bulge, lump, mound, protuberance, prominence.
  • Verb (for arching): Arch, curve, hunch.
  • Verb (for carrying): Lug, haul, schlep (informal).
Phrasal Verbs / Related Phrases
  • Hump along: To move or progress with difficulty or effort.
    • The old truck could only hump along at 30 miles per hour up the steep hill.
Related Idioms
  • "Hump day" (informal, chiefly US & Canada): Wednesday, regarded as the midpoint of the working week.
    • It's hump day! The weekend is in sight.
hump

The camel's hump stores fat for long desert journeys.

Noun
  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
Verb
  1. have sexual intercourse with
    • This student sleeps with everyone in her dorm
    • Adam knew Eve
    • Were you ever intimate with this man?
  2. round one's back by bending forward and drawing the shoulders forward

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