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say it: huhmp
hump is a verb and noun meaning "round one's back by bending forward and drawing the shoulders forward". It is pronounced /ˈhʌmp/ — huhmp. It carries 3 recorded senses.
round one's back by bending forward and drawing the shoulders forward
have sexual intercourse with
“This student sleeps with everyone in her dorm”
“Adam knew Eve”
“Were you ever intimate with this man?”
archaism
something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings
“the gun in his pocket made an obvious bulge”
“the hump of a camel”
“he stood on the rocky prominence”
“the occipital protuberance was well developed”
“the bony excrescence between its horns”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for hump come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.