Hump
A protuberance; especially, the protuberance formed by a crooked back.
A fleshy protuberance on the back of an animal, as a camel or whale.
To form into a hump; to make hump-shaped; to hunch; -- often with up.
To put or carry on the (humped) back; to shoulder; hence, to carry, in general.
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.
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Hump Quotations
Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
He piled upon the whale's white hump the sum of all the general rage and hate felt by his whole race from Adam down; and then, as if his chest had been a mortar, he burst his hot heart's shell upon it.
Herman Melville
I hump the wild to take it all in, there is no bag limit on happiness.
Ted Nugent
We were not allowed to say, Screw, but we could say, Hump the hostess, because hump is in Shakespeare.
Uta Hagen
The thing that got me over the hump was accepting that I had to do whatever I could to stay in the game.
Dennis Eckersley
The only thing that matters is what happens on the little hump out in the middle of the field.
Earl Weaver
Do not free the camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.
M. Kathleen Casey
Hump Translations
hump in Danish is pukkel
hump in Dutch is bochel, bult
hump in French is bosse
hump in Norwegian is pukkel, kul
hump in Spanish is joroba
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