Definitions for humps

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Spelling: [huhmp]

IPA: /hʌmp/

Humps is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 51 anagrams from letters in humps (hmpsu).

Definitions for humps

noun

1. a rounded protuberance, especially a fleshy protuberance on the back, as that due to abnormal curvature of the spine in humans, or that normally present in certain animals, as the camel or bison.
2. Physical Geography. a low, rounded rise of ground; hummock. a mountain or mountain range.
3. Railroads. (in a switchyard) a raised area down which cars pushed to its crest roll by gravity and momentum for automatic sorting through a series of preset switches.
4. Slang: Vulgar. an act or instance of coitus. a partner in coitus.
5. the hump. British Slang. a fit of depression or bad humor: (initial capital letter) (in World War II) the Himalayas.

Idioms

1. over the hump, past the most difficult, time-consuming, or dangerous part or period:

verb (used with object)

1. to raise (the back) in a hump; hunch:
2. Railroads. to sort (cars) by means of a hump.
3. Informal. to exert (oneself) in a great effort.
4. Slang: Vulgar. to have sexual intercourse with.
5. Slang. to place or bear on the back or shoulder. to carry or haul. to load or unload; lift.

verb (used without object)

1. to rise in a hump.
2. Informal. to exert oneself; hustle or hurry.
3. Slang: Vulgar. to engage in sexual intercourse.

Origin of humps

First recorded in 1700-10; probably abstracted from humpbacked

Examples for humps

I should want my camel on wheels, with a railin' around his hump.

Of course, not even a new Contract With America may be enough to help Republicans over the hump in 2010.

Diplomatic dispatches at the time, written by men who had no reason to lie to their own rulers, reported no hump or withered arm.

We should have to hump treble the weight of the lime we should get after burning them.

And then we should have to hump the lime at least half a mile up from the beach.

Despite 20 years of cycling between expectation and disappointment, I hump along with that aim in mind.

In the former Bill Hurt longed to hump you and in the latter a large dog did just that in your role as an animal trainer.

Also 2004: John Kerry kept it close but never got over the hump.

If we hump ourselves we ken cross the divide afore the road is blocked.

The only height she remembered was the Puy de Dome, rounded off at the summit like a hump.