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Hump   /həmp/   Listen
noun
Hump  n.  
1.
A protuberance; especially, the protuberance formed by a crooked back.
2.
(Zool.) A fleshy protuberance on the back of an animal, as a camel or whale.
3.
(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.


verb
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."
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."
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."
4.
(Railroad) To sort freight cars by means of a hump.
5.
To engage in sexual intercourse with. (Vulgar Slang, U. S.)





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"Hump" Quotes from Famous Books



... sperm whale, the stem on its nose or snout appears very thick, and perfectly blunt, like a huge mallet about to strike. The head is a third part of the length of the body. At its junction with the body a hump rises, which we whalers call the bunch of the neck. Behind this is the thickest part of the body, which tapers off till there is another rise which we call the hump, in the shape of a pyramid—then commences the small, ...
— Old Jack • W.H.G. Kingston
... the water about Long Island, and from the bones scattered around the deserted fire places, this animal seemed to form the principal subsistence of the natives; but we had not the address to obtain any. Hump-backed whales frequent the entrance of the sound, and would present an object of interest to a colony. In fishing, we had little success with hook and line; and the nature of the shores did not admit ...
— A Voyage to Terra Australis Volume 2 • Matthew Flinders
... the tight-rope, or ... Here, Pipus the hunchback, show thine ugly face to my lord's grace, maybe thou'lt help to dissipate the frown between my Lord's eyes, maybe my lord's grace will e'en smile at thine antics.... Turn then, show thy hump, 'tis worth five hundred sesterces, my lord ... turn again ... see my lord, is he not ...
— "Unto Caesar" • Baroness Emmuska Orczy
... I've not been introdooced ;—merely by way of stretchin' my muscles. Now I must say—an' I admits it with sorrow—that you-all is that onhappy sport. It's no use; I knows I'll loathe myse'f for crawlin' the hump of a gent who's totterin' on the brink of the grave; but whatever else can I do? Vows is vows an' must be kept, so you might as well prepare yourse'f for a cloud of ...
— Wolfville Nights • Alfred Lewis
... a little ugly hump-backed man: opening the door so suddenly, that the doctor, from the very impetus of his last kick, nearly fell forward into the ...
— Oliver Twist • Charles Dickens


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