I. noun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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The car has a big hump in the middle of the rear floor, because of the rear-wheel drive mechanism.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Ahead, two small humps of islands lay stunned with light.
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Even with the magnification of a monocular, I can barely make out indistinct humps gliding through the darkening water.
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For several hours we explored the island, two humps of rock, spectacularly eroded, joined by a narrow ridge.
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I sat down on its rounded hump .
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Once the personal-computer industry gets over that hump , there will finally be speed to burn.
II. verb
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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I dismissed the watercolours and pencils, because of humping all the water bottles, brushes, and so on around.
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It could not have been easy to hump awkward loads up and down the wobbly death trap.
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It was easy duty: all paperwork, no humping, a tin roof over his head.
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Their cases humped upstairs and put into the bedroom, Adam looked Rufus Fletcher up in the phone book.