Hump

Definition: Hump

Hump

Noun

1. Something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from a form.

Verb

1. Arch one's back.

2. Have sexual intercourse with; "This student sleeps with everyone in her dorm"; "Adam knew Eve" (know is archaic); "Were you ever intimate with this man?".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "hump" was first used: 1681. (references)

Economics

Slang

Slang in 1811

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Hump

Convexity

Intumescence; tumour, tumor; tubercle, tuberosity; excrescence; hump, hunch, bunch.

Distortion

Adjective: distorted; Verb: out of shape, irregular, asymmetric, unsymmetric, awry, wry, askew, crooked; not true, not straight; on one side, crump, deformed; harelipped; misshapen, misbegotten; misproportioned, ill proportioned; ill-made; grotesque, monstrous, crooked as a ram's horn; camel backed, hump backed, hunch backed, bunch backed, crook backed; bandy; bandy legged, bow legged; bow kneed, knock kneed; splay footed, club footed; round shouldered; snub nosed; curtailed of one's fair proportions; stumpy; (short); gaunt; (thin); bloated; scalene; simous; taliped, talipedic.

Crosswords: Hump

You'll hump a baseball glove (Good Will Hunting; writing credit: Matt Damon; Ben Affleck)

I say we hump 'em. (Tank Girl; writing credit: Alan Martin; Jamie Hewlett)

I bust my hump all week working (Thank God It's Friday; writing credit: Armyan Bernstein)

I'd never have to shave Mom's hump again (Carpool; writing credit: Don Rhymer)

Without the hump. (Will & Grace; writing credit: Evan Weinstein)

Go have a dream and hump it (One Season; performing artist: The Roches)

The Mad Doctor Hump (1969)

Pimple Gets the Hump (1915)

Florence Hump (1994)

White Men Can't Hump (1992)

Things That Go Hump in the Night (1991)

Hamps Hump (performing artist: Galactic)

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Books

• Confusion Beyond Imagination: Those Wild Blue Characters; Over the Hump; From Wings to Shoes Volume Two (reference)

• Everest: The Ultimate Hump (reference)

• How Architecture Got Its Hump (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Rabbit Ears - How the Rhino Got His Skin/How the Camel Got His Hump (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Arabian Hump (reference)

• The Miraculous Hump Returns from the Moon (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• Train Teasers: The Hump Yard (Jewel Case) (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

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Nationalist China passport issued to Carl Aslakson Aslakson was with Army Air Forces helping survey world air routes He witnessed Japanese bombings of Chungking after flying over the Hump. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Carl Aslakson passport photo on Nationalist China passport Aslakson was with Army Air Forces helping survey world air routes He witnessed Japanese bombings of Chungking after flying over the Hump. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Hi there, Tim and Denny, hump yourselves more. Credit: Library of Congress.

Camel's hump from University grounds, Burlington, Vt. Credit: Library of Congress.

Valley of the Winooski and Camels Hump Mt. [i.e. Mountain], Burlington, Vt. Credit: Library of Congress.

Hump master in a Chicago and Northwestern railroad yard operating a signal switch system which extends the length of the hump track. Credit: Library of Congress.

Switch lists coming in by teletype to the hump office at a Chicago and Northwestern railroad yard, Chicago, Ill. Credit: Library of Congress.

Train going over the hump at C & NW RR's Proviso yard, Chicago, Ill. Credit: Library of Congress.

C & NW RR, tank cars going over the hump at Proviso yard, Chicago, Ill. Credit: Library of Congress.

Indiana Harbor] Belt railway, looking toward the west yard of clearing yard, taken from bridge of hump, Chicago, Ill. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

The truck edged slowly over the big hump and into the road

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "hump": be over the hump ♦ give smb. the hump ♦ give the hump ♦ have the hump ♦ hump basin ♦ hump oneself ♦ hump speed ♦ hump stilling basin ♦ hump up ♦ road hump ♦ speed control hump ♦ visceral hump. Additional references.

Beginning with "hump": hump-back, hump-backed, hump-headed, hump-like, hump-muscled, hump-necked, hump-shaped, Hump-shouldered.

Ending with "hump": single-hump.

Albanian

xhungë (boss, bulge, bump, excrescence, gall, gallnut, glandule, hunch, knob, knur, knurr, lump, node, nub, overgrowth, protuberance, swelling, tuber, tubercle), pirg (aggregation, bank, clamp, cumulus, drift, heap, heaps of, huddle, jumble, mountain, pile, stack), kodrinë (Foothill, hillock, hummock, knoll, Toft), gungë në kurriz (hunch), gungë (boss, bump, gibbosity, hummock, hunch, knob, knot, knur, knurl, knurr, node, nub, overgrowth, promontory, protuberance, swell, swelling, tuber, tubercle, tumefaction), breg (bank, bar, brow, coast, height, hill, knoll, shore, side, strand). (various references)

Arabic 

‏مرحلة حرجة, ‏نوبة غم, ‏حمل (bear, bearing, burden, carriage, carry, carry on, charge, conception, deck, hold, knock up, lade, lamb, lifting, load, portage, pregnancy, take, tote, yeanling), ‏حدب (acclivity, camber, humping), ‏سنام (boss, bunch, hunch, protuberance), ‏جامع (copulate, cover, lie with, make love, mosque, picker, poke, sex, tail, terse, universal), ‏السنام, ‏رابية (barrow, elevation, hill, hillock, hummock, mound, tuft). (various references)

Basque

koskor (hunch). (various references)

Bulgarian 

могила (hillock, mound, swelling), изгърбвам (bend), планинска верига (chain, ridge), подтиснато настроение (dejection, doldrums), подутост (gibbosity), препускам (course, fly, race, rip, scurry, spur, tantivy), издатина (burr, horn, jut, ledge, process, projection, prominence, promontory, protrusion, protuberance, salient, set off, shelf, swell, tuber), лошо настроение (doldrums, grouch, ill humor, ill humour, mumps, pet, petulance, spleen), развалям настроението на, напрягам (bend, call forth, exert, intensify, overstrain, rack, strain, string up, tense), нося на гръб (horse), гърбица (humpback, hunch, hunchback), критичен момент (emergency, push), труден момент, хълм (eminence, height, monticule, mound, prominence), прегърбвам. (various references)

Chinese 

小丘. (various references)

Czech

hrbol (node), hrb (humpback, hunch), vyvýšenina (elevation, swelling), pahorek (Hill, hillock, hummock, knoll, protuberance, rise). (various references)

Danish

pukkel (bump). (various references)

Dutch

bult (bump), bochel (bump). (various references)

Esperanto

ĝibo (bump). (various references)

Faeroese

kúla (ball, ball-bearing, bullet, bump, globe). (various references)

Farsi 

پیاده روی (Hike), کوهان (Hunch), قوزکردن (Squat), قوز (Hunch), گوژ (Hunch), تروشروءی کردن , روی کول انداختن , برامدگی گرد. (various references)

Finnish

kyttyrä (bump, hunch). (various references)

French

bosse (humping, hunch). (various references)

Frisian

buchel (bump). (various references)

German

Höcker (bump, humps, hunch, knob), Buckel (back, boss, bulge, bump, hillock, hummock, humpback, hunch, hunchback, hunchbacks, stoop). (various references)

Greek 

καμπούρα (humpback, hunch). (various references)

Hebrew 

לקמר �'בו (hunch), ל�"ת�'ב� ן, ל�"עלות על �'בו, חטוטרת (hunch), �"בשת (hunch), �'ביע�", �'ב� ון (hummock, hunch, peak). (various references)

Hungarian

púp (boss, crump back, hunch, hunchback, hunk, lump, shoulder, snub). (various references)

Indonesian

punuk, bongkol (head, knob, node). (various references)

Italian

protuberanza (boss, bulge, bump, hunch, knob, lump, outgrowth, protrusion, protuberance), malumore (bad feeling, bad mood, bad temper, grouch, moodiness, spleen, sulkiness), malinconia (gloom, melancholia, melancholiness, melancholy, miserable, pensiveness, sadness, somberness, sombreness, spleen), incurvare (bend, incurve), inarcare (arch, bend, curve), gobbosit� (gibbosity), gobbo (crookbacked, gibbous, humpback, humpbacked, hunchbacked), gobba (bump, Crookback, gibbosity, humpback, hunch, hunchback, protuberance), collinetta (hillock, hummock, knoll, mound). (various references)

Korean 

혹. (various references)

Manx

druin (camber, crown of road, hogback), droyn, drone, cruitch (harp), croobey (cringe, cringe of action, cringing). (various references)

Norwegian

pukkel (hunch), kul. (various references)

Occitan

bòssa (hunch). (various references)

Pig Latin

umphay.(various references)

Portuguese

corcunda (bump, bunchy, crook-back, gibbosity, gibbous, humpback, hunchback), corcova (bump, camel-back, hunch). (various references)

Romanian

spinare cocoşatã, movilã (Barrow, heap, hillock, knob, knoll, mound, rising, tumulus, up), mormãire, indispoziţie (ailment, disorder, distemper, indisposition, malaise, miff, pip), gheb (boss, crook, gibbosity, hillock, hunch), cocoaşã (boss, crook, gibbosity, humpback, hunch, hunchback). (various references)

Russian 

решающий (conclusive, crucial, decisive, determinant, determinative), максимум (maximum, peak, superior limit), бугор (hill, hillock, knob, knoll, nipple, tuber). (various references)

Scottish

croit (a croft, a hump, croft). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

humka (barrow, hillock, hummock, mound, tor, tumulus), najteži deo, loše raspoloženje, kao grba, gura (hunch, hunchback), grba (humpback, hunch, hunchback, monkey). (various references)

Spanish

joroba (boss, hunch). (various references)

Swedish

puckel (bump, hunch). (various references)

Turkish

huzursuzluk (discomfort, disquiet, disquietude, fermentation, fidget, inquietude, qualm, restiveness, restlessness, sleeplessness, trouble, uneasiness, unrest), huzursuz etmek (annoy, disquieten, disturb, fidget, give smb. the hump, give the hump, perturb, prey on), hörgüç (humpback, hunch), tepe (apex, apical, cap, crest, crown, down, eminence, eminency, fell, head, height, Hill, Mount, peak, ridge, rise, roof, tip, top, topknot, vertex), tümsek (Barrow, bulge, bump, gibbous, hillock, hummock, mound, prominence, protuberance, protuberant, rise, swell), sırtında taşımak, sırtına almak (fling on), rahatsız etmek (ail, annoy, badger, bait, bother, chafe, chivvy, chivy, derange, devil, discomfort, discommode, distract, disturb, get in smb.'s hair, goad, goad on, harass, hassle, hatchel, incommode, inconvenience, irritate, make a draft on, pester, put smb. to inconvenience, put upon, trouble, twist smb.'s tail, worry), kamburlaştırmak (arch, hog, hump up, hunch, hunch up), kambur (Crookback, crook-backed, gibbous, humpback, humpbacked, humped, humpy, hunch, hunchback, hunchbacked), ilişki kurmak (contact, familiarize, have intercourse with, have it off, hook up, interrelate, liaise, make, make contact, make out, relate, tie in, tie up), gayret etmek (cultivate, endeavor, endeavour, go for, hump oneself, jockey for, make an effort, rustle, strain, strain after, strain at, strive, study, take care, try), cinsel ilişkiye girmek (have a screw, have sex, jazz, lie with, shag, sleep with). (various references)

Turkmen 

цrkьз. (various references)

Ukrainian

сутулитися (slouch, stoop), сутулити, горбитися (crook, hunch), горбити (crook, hunch), горб (gibbosity, humpback, hunch, hunchback), гористий берег, псувати настрій, пагорок (hillock). (various references)

Vietnamese 

lúc chán chường, lúc bu�"n phiền. (various references)

Welsh

crwth (crowd, fiddle, purring), crwbi (aquiline). (various references)

gibba, gibbus. (various references)

homp. (various references)

hump. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "hump": humpback, humpbacked, humpbacks, humped, humph, humphed, humphing, humphs, humpier, humpiest, humping, humpless, humps, humpy. (additional references)

Words ending with "hump": bethump, callithump, chump, thump, whump. (additional references)

Words containing "hump": bethumped, bethumping, bethumps, callithumpian, callithumps, chumped, chumping, chumps, thumped, thumper, thumpers, thumping, thumps, whumped, whumping, whumps. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Hump" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: hamp, Hampi, hempi, hempt, hgmp, himp, himpy, Hmu, homh, homp, Huapi, Huip, hulp, huma, humb, humi, Humm, hummm, humn, humo, humpa, humpff, Humppe, humpt, hup, huup, Hyum, Kump. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: hum, hup, ump.

-2 letters: hm, mu, uh, um, up.

+1 letter: bumph, chump, humph, humps, humpy, thump, whump.

+2 letters: bumphs, chumps, humped, humphs, murphy, phylum, shlump, thumps, whumps.

+3 letters: bethump, chumped, dumpish, galumph, grumphy, harumph, humphed, humpier, humping, lumpish, matchup, schlump, shlumps, shlumpy, smashup, thumped, thumper, triumph, whumped.

+4 letters: bethumps, chipmuck, chipmunk, chumping, chumship, clumpish, euphuism, frumpish, galumphs, grumphie, grumpish, harrumph, harumphs, homespun, humpback, humphing, humpiest, humpless, hypogeum, lumpfish, matchups, murphies, panhuman, philtrum, plumpish, prehuman, schlumps, shlumped, smashups, sphagnum, sphygmus, thumpers, thumping, triumphs, whumping.