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    hump
    [həmp]
    noun
    hump (noun) · humps (plural noun)
    1. a rounded raised mass of earth or land:
      "they sat on a hump of cropped grass"
      • a mound over which railroad vehicles are pushed so as to run by gravity over points to the required place in a switchyard.
    2. a rounded protuberance on the back of a camel or other animal:
      "Bactrian camels have two humps and thick, shaggy coats"
      • dated
        offensive
        a rounded protuberance on a person's back arising from spinal curvature.
    verb
    hump (verb) · humps (third person present) · humped (past tense) · humped (past participle) · humping (present participle)
    1. informal
      lift or carry (a heavy object) with difficulty:
      "he continued to hump cases up and down the hotel corridor"
      • move heavily and awkwardly:
        "it was late morning by the time I finally humped into camp"
    2. make hump-shaped:
      "the cat humped himself into a different shape and purred"
    3. vulgar slang
      have sex with.
    Origin
    early 18th century: probably related to Low German humpe ‘hump’, also to Dutch homp, Low German humpe ‘lump, hunk (of bread)’.
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    noun
    1. a rounded protuberance on the back of a camel or other animal:
      protuberance
      lump
      bump
      knob
      protrusion
      prominence
      projection
      bulge
      swelling
      hunch
      nodule
      node
      mass
      growth
      outgrowth
      excrescence
      tumescence
      tumefaction
      intumescence
      verb
      1. lift or carry (a heavy object) with difficulty:
        carry
        lug
        heave
        lift
        shoulder
        hoist
        heft
        tote
        schlep
        humph
        upheave
        • make hump-shaped:
          arch
          curve
          hunch
          bend
          bow
          curl
          crook
          Opposite:
          straighten
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