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  • noun Plural form of hump.
  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of hump.

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Examples

  • As far as the removal of existing speed humps is concerned, we want to examine the arguments, the costs and so on, to see whether it is an effective way of using resources to improve safety.

    Archive 2005-03-01 2005

  • As far as the removal of existing speed humps is concerned, we want to examine the arguments, the costs and so on, to see whether it is an effective way of using resources to improve safety.

    Getting the hump 2005

  • As far as the removal of existing speed humps is concerned, we want to examine the arguments, the costs and so on, to see whether it is an effective way of using resources to improve safety.

    March 2005 2005

  • Perspective caused the rest of the sheet to slope away in humps and ridges, as the mountain seemed to do under its winter snow when she was a child.

    Excerpt: The First Eagle by Tony Hillerman 1999

  • So the flight over the great humps is a very difficult proposition.

    Present Conditions In China 1944

  • So governments should merely subsidize today's projects enough to push the technologies over their short-term humps.

    BusinessWeek.com -- Top News 2011

  • Of these "humps" -- for there were, as their name suggested, but two -- the northern one was much the smaller, embracing perhaps an acre of rough soil, covered with a stunted grass, and dotted here and there with red cedars.

    Golden Days for Boys and Girls Volume XIII, No. 51: November 12, 1892 Various

  • Like that you can see better where there are humps, that is, places where there is little water, and where the water is too deep.

    Chapter 6 1977

  • But what of those inverted potholes known as humps?

    Home | Mail Online 2009

  • The novelty of having Obama and Palin on the ballot sidetracks some voters†™ attention, she said. “Each time we go over one of these so-called humps, we have trouble concentrating on the issues, †said Reitan.

    News from www.pantagraph.com 2008

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