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What (who) is hump - definition
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Humping; Humps; HUMP; Hump (disambiguation); Humping (disambiguation); The Hump (disambiguation)
Hump
·noun A fleshy protuberance on the back of an animal, as a camel or whale.
II. Hump ·noun A protuberance; especially, the protuberance formed by a crooked back.
- often with up.
IV. Hump ·add. ·vt To put or carry on the (humped) back; to Shoulder; hence, to carry, in general.
V. Hump ·add. ·vt 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.
hump
n.
fit of depression
(colloq.) (BE)
1) it gives me the hump ('it depresses me')
worst part
(colloq.)
2) over the hump
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
Examples of use of hump
1. These include minke, sperm, hump–backed and killer whales.
2. The smart hump is also expected to eliminate other problems.
3. "We were always looking beyond the capacity hump.
4. "You can‘t say, I‘m a Christian, but I‘m going to hump away.
5. I hate that Richard IIIs swastika is now more hackneyed than his hump.