Definitions for lumps

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lumps lump

Spelling: [luhmp]

IPA: /lʌmp/

Lumps is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 56 anagrams from letters in lumps (lmpsu).

Definitions for lumps

noun

1. a piece or mass of solid matter without regular shape or of no particular shape:
2. a protuberance or swelling:
3. an aggregation, collection, or mass; clump:
4. Also called lump of sugar. a small block of granulated sugar, designed for sweetening hot coffee, tea, etc.:
5. majority; plurality; multitude:
6. lumps, Informal. harsh criticism, punishment, or defeat:
7. Informal. a heavy, clumsy, and usually stupid person.

Idioms

1. get / take one's lumps, to receive or endure hardship, punishment, criticism, etc.:

adjective

1. in the form of a lump or lumps:
2. made up of a number of items taken together; not separated or considered separately:

verb (used with object)

1. to unite into one aggregation, collection, or mass (often followed by together):
2. to deal with, handle, consider, etc., in the lump or mass:
3. to make into a lump or lumps:
4. to raise into or cover with lumps:
5. to put up with; resign oneself to; accept and endure:

verb (used without object)

1. to form or raise a lump or lumps:
2. to move heavily and awkwardly:

Origin of lumps

1250-1300; Middle English lumpe, lomp(e); cognate with early Dutch lompe piece, Danish lump(e) lump, dialectal Norwegian lump block

Examples for lumps

Then I smelled the mangos on the trees outside and felt the lumps in the mattress.

When a woman isn't just running even with her husband they call her lumps in his porridge.

Locals quickly joined the effort to help unearth the lumps and unveil first corners, and then entire slabs, of tombstones.

And of Claude.his banks with lumps of dough, instead of stones.

Beat with a fork until perfectly smooth and free from lumps.

Our doctors tell us that breast cancer in young women is “rare” and our lumps are probably benign.

Which brings us to the most unfortunate essays in the book, two lumps of coal in a collection otherwise loaded with gems.

While the maccaroni is boiling, take care that it does not get into lumps.

Ibish lumps all these ideas together and dismisses them as "maximalist."

The lumps of flesh were a part of the decoration of the room and almost indistinguishable from it.