Hypertext Webster Gateway: "hump"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
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.
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.
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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Hump \Hump\, 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.
2. (Zo["o]l.) A fleshy protuberance on the back of an animal,
as a camel or whale.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
hump
n : something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from
a form [syn: {bulge}, {bump}, {gibbosity}, {gibbousness},
{jut}, {prominence}, {protuberance}, {protrusion}, {extrusion},
{excrescence}]
v 1: arch one's back [syn: {hunch}, {hunch forward}, {hunch over}]
2: have sexual intercourse with; "This student sleeps with
everyone in her dorm"; "Adam knew Eve" (know is archaic);
"Were you ever intimate with this man?" [syn: {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}, {lie with},
{bed}, {have a go at it}, {bang}, {get it on}, {bonk}]
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