HUMP

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does hump mean? 

• HUMP (noun)
  The noun HUMP has 1 sense:

1. something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings

  Familiarity information: HUMP used as a noun is very rare.

• HUMP (verb)
  The verb HUMP has 2 senses:

1. round one's back by bending forward and drawing the shoulders forward

2. have sexual intercourse with

  Familiarity information: HUMP used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HUMP (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings

Classified under:

Nouns denoting two and three dimensional shapes

Synonyms:

bulge; bump; excrescence; extrusion; gibbosity; gibbousness; hump; jut; prominence; protrusion; protuberance; swelling

Context example:

the bony excrescence between its horns

Hypernyms ("hump" is a kind of...):

projection (any solid convex shape that juts out from something)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "hump"):

frontal eminence (either prominence of the frontal bone above each orbit)

occipital protuberance (prominence on the outer surface of the occipital bone)

belly (a part that bulges deeply)

caput (a headlike protuberance on an organ or structure)

mogul (a bump on a ski slope)

nub; nubble (a small lump or protuberance)

snag (a sharp protuberance)

wart (any small rounded protuberance (as on certain plants or animals))

Derivation:

hump (round one's back by bending forward and drawing the shoulders forward)

• HUMP (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they hump    ... he / she / it humps   
Past simple: humped   
Past participle: humped   
-ing form: humping   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Round one's back by bending forward and drawing the shoulders forward

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Synonyms:

hump; hunch; hunch forward; hunch over

Hypernyms (to "hump" is one way to...):

change posture (undergo a change in bodily posture)

"Hump" entails doing...:

bend; flex (form a curve)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Derivation:

hump (something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Have sexual intercourse with

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

bang; be intimate; bed; bonk; do it; eff; fuck; get it on; get laid; have a go at it; have intercourse; have it away; have it off; have sex; hump; jazz; know; lie with; love; make love; make out; roll in the hay; screw; sleep together; sleep with

Context example:

Were you ever intimate with this man?

Hypernyms (to "hump" is one way to...):

copulate; couple; mate; pair (engage in sexual intercourse)

Verb group:

make out; neck (kiss, embrace, or fondle with sexual passion)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "hump"):

have; take (have sex with; archaic use)

fornicate (have sex without being married)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s somebody

 Context examples 

Hump, if you will look on the west coast of the map of Norway you will see an indentation called Romsdal Fiord.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

As there are a plethora of planets in Capricorn, a sign ruling structure, setting up a detailed plan will get you over the humps.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Classic features include moon facies, buffalo hump, obesity, striae and adiposity.

(Cushingoid, NCI Thesaurus)

Its shoulders were humped, and round them were draped what appeared to be a faded gray shawl.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A disorder characterized by signs and symptoms that resemble Cushing's disease or syndrome: buffalo hump obesity, striations, adiposity, hypertension, diabetes, and osteoporosis, usually due to exogenous corticosteroids.

(Cushingoid, NCI Thesaurus/CTCAE)

Well, she drew a picture of Mr. Davis, with a monstrous nose and a hump, and the words, 'Young ladies, my eye is upon you!' coming out of his mouth in a balloon thing.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Now isn't that stean at any rate—he hammered it with his stick as he spoke—a pack of lies? and won't it make Gabriel keckle when Geordie comes pantin' up the grees with the tombstean balanced on his hump, and asks it to be took as evidence!"

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

“We’ll make it, I think; but you can depend upon it that blessed brother of mine has twigged our little game and is just a-humping for us. Ah, look at that!”

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Banks become demanding, clients withhold payments, and the need for contingency funds often becomes vital to help you over the hump until promised money arrives.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Hump, he said slowly, you can’t do it. You are not exactly afraid. You are impotent. Your conventional morality is stronger than you.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)