Free TranslationFree Translation
Synonyms, antonyms, pronunciation

  Home 		English Dictionary      examples: 'day', 'get rid of', 'New York Bay'




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.)





Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48


Advanced search
     Find words:
Starting with
Ending with
Containing
Matching a pattern  

Synonyms
Antonyms
Quotes
Words linked to  

only single words


Share |




"Hump" Quotes from Famous Books



... feet,—lengthening prodigiously,—sometimes, mixing, fill all the way; sometimes, at a turn, rise up to climb the trees. Huge masses of frondage, catching the failing light, take strange fiery color;—the sun's rim almost touches one violet hump in the western ...
— Two Years in the French West Indies • Lafcadio Hearn
... was the chief reason why I was never last in. Dressing was a problem, for every one must needs dress at the same time, and from the outside the tent must have looked something like a camel whose hump was constantly slipping. Perhaps that is why every one used safety-razors after a while, for although our faces would frequently look as though they had been mixed up in barbed wire, there was really not much danger of cutting one's throat, for even though ...
— "Over There" with the Australians • R. Hugh Knyvett
... with Buck Duane. He's on secret ranger service for me. Service that'll likely make you all hump soon! Mind you, keep mum ...
— The Lone Star Ranger • Zane Grey
... Stanley's gesture and the frantic clicking of the camera shutter, I looked more closely at the curious, saucerlike hump. ...
— Astounding Stories of Super-Science September 1930 • Various
... the lower woodcut, a notable instance of Bewick's power of abstraction. You will observe that one of the chief characters of this frog, which makes him humorous,—next to his vain endeavor to get some firmness into his fore feet,—is his obstinately angular hump-back. And you must feel, when you see it so marked, how important a general character of a frog it is to have a hump-back,—not at ...
— Ariadne Florentina - Six Lectures on Wood and Metal Engraving • John Ruskin


More quotes...


Copyright © 2025 e-Free Translation.com