hump n : something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from a form [syn: bulge, bump, gibbosity, gibbousness, jut, prominence, protuberance, protrusion, extrusion, excrescence]

1 arch one's back [syn: hunch, hunch forward, hunch over]

2 have sexual intercourse with; "This student sleeps with everyone in her dorm"; "Adam knew Eve"; "Were you ever intimate with this man?" [syn: roll in the hay, love, make out, make love, sleep with, get laid, have sex, know, do it, be intimate, have intercourse, have it away, have it off, screw, fuck, jazz, eff, lie with, bed, have a go at it, bang, get it on, bonk]

English

Etymology

Probably cognate with:

• kyphosis (from Greek κύφος (kyphos) "humpbacked")
• cube (from Greek κύβος (kybos) "cube, vertebra")
• cubit (from Latin cubitum "cubit, elbow")
• incubate (from Latin incubare "to lie on")
• incubus
• incumbent
• cymbal (from Latin cymbalum from Greek kymbalon from kymbe "bowl")

Pronunciation

• /hʌmp/

• Rhymes with: -ʌmp

Noun

1. A mound of earth.
2. A rounded fleshy mass, such as on a camel.
3. A deformity in humans caused by abnormal curvature of the upper spine.
4. In the context of "UK|slang}} An act of sexual intercourse.

Hump may refer to:

• HUMP! (film festival), an annual presentation of amateur pornography
• The Hump, a name given by WWII Allied pilots to part of the Himalayan mountains
• Kyphosis, the curve on an upper spine that causes a hunchback
• An artificial hill used to sort train cars in a classification yard
• The rise on the back of a camel
• Slang - To engage in sexual intercourse
• The act of dry humping, achieving sexual pleasure from genital friction without intercourse.
• To 'Get the Hump' is to become annoyed by something or someone (chiefly British slang).

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