Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Having a hump or protuberance.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Having a hump, as the back.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb Past participle of hump
  • adjective Having a hump or humps.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective characteristic of or suffering from kyphosis, an abnormality of the vertebral column

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Examples

  • For a boxcar of widgets to make it across country, it typically has to stop and sit in rail yards waiting to get "humped," or reshuffled, with other boxcars headed in the same direction five times.

    Join The Cold Train Jonathan Fahey 2006

  • He had enormous shoulders, fairly "humped" with layers of fat.

    A Little Miss Nobody Or, With the Girls of Pinewood Hall Amy Bell Marlowe

  • And one of his shoulders was kind of humped up and to one side, and one of his hands had a stiff thumb.

    Mitch Miller Edgar Lee Masters 1909

  • The woodpecker sat on his perch with wings held tightly against his sides, "humped" up as though he were high-shouldered.

    In Nesting Time Olive Thorne Miller 1874

  • But his hips were hardly snug in the saddle, when the wicked Comanche "humped" his back, and entered upon a round of kicking which seemed to exhibit every pose and attitude of equestrian exercise.

    The War Trail The Hunt of the Wild Horse Mayne Reid 1850

  • Rocker Gene Simmons has filed legal papers disputing allegations he "humped" and "grinded" against a TV make-up artist during an appearance on ESPN.

    JAM! Showbiz 2010

  • Farm in Yilan County's Sansing Township often get "humped" and put in the family way by wild boars.

    WN.com - Articles related to Can the tiger save India? 2010

  • In the Corps, as you can imagine, we 'humped' a lot (for you soldiers or civilians that's

    SurvivalBlog.com 2010

  • Apparently, she would have preferred to be humped on the first “date” like some drunk slag he scraped off the bathroom floor at Karma.

    Shore Thing Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi 2011

  • Dressed in a cashmere twin set and pearl necklace, she stood making the sign of the horns with her hand, sticking out her tongue, and screaming like crazy while her daughter humped a piano bench onstage.

    Welcome to My World Johnny Weir 2011

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