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How to pronounce hump in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms bang, be intimate, bed, bonk, do it, eff, fuck, get it on, get laid, have a go at it, have intercourse, have it away, have it off, have sex, jazz, know, lie with, love, make love, make out, roll in the hay, screw, sleep together, sleep with
Type of mate, copulate, pair, couple
Has types take, fornicate, have
Verb group make out, neck
Type Words
Synonyms hunch, hunch forward, hunch over
Type of change posture
Type Words
Synonyms bulge, bump, excrescence, extrusion, gibbosity, gibbousness, jut, prominence, protrusion, protuberance, swelling
Type of projection
Has types wart, snag, occipital protuberance, nubble, nub, mogul, frontal eminence, belly, caput


the hump of a camel.

Examples of hump

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So I'm sure there will be some who will have a hard time getting over that hump.
From the abcnews.go.com
They plan a swing dance, and took lessons to get a nervous Drazin over the hump.
From the courier-journal.com
He has already tried to hump the log, but was probably put off by the splinters.
From the guardian.co.uk
Is this the year the Sharks finally get over the hump to the Stanley Cup Finals?
From the dailyherald.com
They just have to find a way to get him loose and over the hump in the playoffs.
From the chron.com
They did close within four in the fourth quarter but couldn't get over the hump.
From the sltrib.com
It hasn't been the best, but I've been battling and trying to get over the hump.
From the bostonherald.com
There is little doubt that Montgomery is one of the region's speed hump leaders.
From the washingtonpost.com
Pushing over that training hump will make you more enthused about running again.
From the express.co.uk
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  • Bulge: 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"
  • Hunch: round one's back by bending forward and drawing the shoulders forward
  • Sleep together: have sexual intercourse with; "This student sleeps with everyone in her dorm"; "Adam knew Eve"; "Were you ever intimate with this man?"
  • Hump is a fictional character, a mutant in the Marvel Comics Universe. His first appearance was in New Mutants #91 (July 1990).
  • The HUMP! annual film festival in Seattle, Washington, initiated in 2005, showcases home-movie erotica, amateur sex cinema, and locally produced pornography. Films are rated by the audience, and awards are given. ...
  • The Hump was the name given by Allied pilots in the Second World War to the eastern end of the Himalayan Mountains over which they flew military transport aircraft from India to China to resupply the Chinese war effort of Chiang Kai-shek and the units of the United States Army Air Forces based ...
  • A mound of earth; A rounded mass, especially a 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; To bend ...
  • (humping) 1. Masking against a roid. 2. Rarely, mining a roid.
  • An underwater island that generally rises gradually. Humps can often hold fish.