Humpname

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  historicalslangThe Himalayas (a mountain range in Asia), as the challenge for the supply route between India and China.

  • The C-47s could not make it over the Hump with a full load and full tanks.

Humpname

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  A diminutive of the male given names Humphrey or Humphry.

humpnoun/hʌmp/

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  A mound of earth.

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  A speed bump or speed hump.

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  A deformity in humans caused by abnormal curvature of the upper spine.

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  A rounded fleshy mass, such as on a camel or zebu.

  • Fat, melted down from the hump of the camel, is suggested in an Oriental manual as an aphrodisiac aid.
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  vulgarslangAn act of sexual intercourse.

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  slangA bad mood.

  • She's got the hump with me.
  • Go away! You're giving me the right hump.
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  slangA painfully boorish person.

  • That guy is such a hump!
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  A wave that forms in front of an operating hovercraft and impedes progress at low speeds.

humpverb/hʌmp/

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  To bend something into a hump.

  • The cattle were very uncomfortable, standing humped up in the bushes.
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  To carry (something), especially with some exertion.

  • For travellers have to carry bags, / And swagmen have to hump their swags / Like bottle-ohs or ragmen.
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  vulgarslangTo rhythmically thrust the pelvis in a manner conducive to sexual intercourse.

  • Stop humping the table, you sicko.
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  vulgarslangTo rhythmically thrust the pelvis in a manner conducive to sexual intercourse.

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  datedslangTo exert oneself; to make an effort.

  • Lessons are keeping me humping now, and will probably do so all summer.
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  datedslangTo vex or annoy.

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  rail-transportrailwaystransportTo shunt wagons / freight cars over the hump in a hump yard.

  • In the first phase of the new yard's operation, from March 6 last, it was wisely decided to restrict the yard's use to allow for any "teething" ailments with complex electronic gadgets, so when I visited Margam early in May it was working well below its capacity, humping about 1,000 wagons a day; […].
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  obsoleteslangTo botch or spoil.

  • "Why, sir," said one patterer, "I've gone out with a mate to work a litany, and he's humped it in no time." To 'hump,' in street parlance, is equivalent to 'botch,' in more genteel colloquialism.