From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Hump \Hump\ (h[u^]mp), n. [Cf. D. homp a lump, LG. hump heap,
hill, stump, possibly akin to E. heap. Cf. {Hunch}.]
1. A protuberance; especially, the protuberance formed by a
crooked back.
[1913 Webster]
2. (Zool.) A fleshy protuberance on the back of an animal, as
a camel or whale.
[1913 Webster]
3. (Railroad) a portion of a switchyard with a slanting track
in which freight cars may coast without an engine and be
sorted through a series of switches.
[PJC]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Hump \Hump\, v. t.
1. To form into a hump; to make hump-shaped; to hunch; --
often with up.
The cattle were very uncomfortable, standing humped
up in the bushes. --T. Roosvelt.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
2. To put or carry on the (humped) back; to shoulder; hence,
to carry, in general. [Slang, Australia]
Having collected a sufficient quantity, we humped it
out of the bush. --C. L. Money.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
3. 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. [Slang, U. S.]
A half dozen other negroes, some limping and all
scared, were humping it across a meadow. --McClure's
Mag.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
4. (Railroad) to sort freight cars by means of a hump.
[PJC]
5. to engage in sexual intercourse with. [Vulgar Slang, U.
S.]
[PJC]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
hump
n 1: something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects
from its surroundings; "the gun in his pocket made an
obvious bulge"; "the hump of a camel"; "he stood on the
rocky prominence"; "the occipital protuberance was well
developed"; "the bony excrescence between its horns" [syn:
{bulge}, {bump}, {hump}, {swelling}, {gibbosity},
{gibbousness}, {jut}, {prominence}, {protuberance},
{protrusion}, {extrusion}, {excrescence}]
v 1: round one's back by bending forward and drawing the
shoulders forward [syn: {hunch}, {hump}, {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: {sleep together}, {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}, {hump}, {lie with}, {bed}, {have a go at it},
{bang}, {get it on}, {bonk}]
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