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   hump

   /həmp/

   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 or as an abnormality on the back of a person: "his back rose into a kind of hump at the base of the spine"

   verb

   • 1. lift or carry (a heavy object) with difficulty: informal British "he continued to hump cases up and down the hotel corridor" Similar carrylugheaveliftshoulderhoisthefttoteinformal:schlephumphrare:upheave
   • ▪ 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" Similar archcurvehunchbendbowcurlcrookOpposite straighten
   • 3. have sex with. vulgar slang

   Word Origin early 18th century: probably related to Low German humpe ‘hump’, also to Dutch homp, Low German humpe ‘lump, hunk (of bread)’.

   Derivatives

   • 1. humpless adjective

   Scrabble Points: 11

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