Hump
WordNet
noun
(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"
verb
(2) Have sexual intercourse with
"This student sleeps with everyone in her dorm"
"Adam knew Eve"
"Were you ever intimate with this man?"
(3) Arch one's back
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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")
Noun
- A mound of earth.
- A rounded fleshy mass, such as on a camel.
- A deformity in humans caused by abnormal curvature of the upper spine.
- An act of sexual intercourse.
- (British) A bad mood, especially in the expression to have the hump.
- A painfully boorish person.
- That guy is such a hump!
- (The Hump) World War 2 slang for the supply route between India and China over the Himalaya mountain range.