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Definition of Hump

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. Related Definitions: An, Animal, As, Back, Bend, By, Camel, Carry, Crooked, Do, Effect, Effort, Especially, Exert, Fleshy, For, Form, Formed, Gather, General, Hence, Hump, Humped, Hunch, In, Into, It, Make, Must, Of, Often, On, Or, Protuberance, Put, Running, Shoulder, Strenuous, Such, The, To, Together, Up, Whale, With, You, Yourself

Hump Quotations 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 Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel. Gilbert K. Chesterton I hump the wild to take it all in, there is no bag limit on happiness. Ted Nugent 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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