英语词汇“hump”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

单词	hump
释义	hump I. \ˈhəmp\ noun (-s) Etymology: akin to Frisian hompe lump, chunk, Dutch homp lump, chunk, Middle Low German hump bump, Old Norse aptrhuppr flank of an animal, Norwegian dialect hupp, hump flank of an animal, Latin incumbere to lie down, Greek kymbē drinking cup, bowl, boat, Sanskrit kumbha pot, Old English hype hip — more at hip 1. : a rounded protuberance: as a. : the protuberance formed by a crooked back in human beings b. : a fleshy protuberance on the back of an animal (as a camel, bison, or whale) 2. Britain : a fit of depression or sulking < enough to give anyone the hump to see him now — Samuel Butler †1902 > 3. a. (1) : mound, hummock (2) : a conspicuous bulge or protruding section of coastline < the hump of Brazil > (3) : a mountain range or mountain that has to be crossed — used chiefly in aeronautics < over the hump from Chile to Buenos Aires > < the Himalayan hump > b. : an elevation in a railroad switch yard up one side of which the cars are pushed by an engine and down the other side of which they are switched by gravity to their proper tracks 4. a. : a difficult, trying, or critical phase (as of an undertaking) — often used in the phrase over the hump < in the production of machine tools the Soviet Union is over the hump — P.E.Mosely > b. : strenuous exertion or effort : go, hustle — often used in the phrases on the hump < my duties keep me pretty much on the hump — New Yorker > and get a hump on < nowadays even ministers of the gospel know how to get a hump on — J.W.Krutch > II. verb (-ed/-ing/-s) *transitive verb* 1. : to exert (oneself) < last year he had to hump himself and make over a million — Fortune > 2. : to make humpbacked : hunch < stood humped with pain — F.B.Gipson > 3. chiefly Britain : to put or carry on the back or shoulder < we humped our barracks bags, piled in the wet trucks — H.D.Skidmore > < rose at six in the morning to hump coal … to the neighbors' homes — Books of the Month > also : to carry in any way < helped … hump in the crates of beer — Audrey Barker > 4. : to sort (freight cars) in a classification yard and assemble in trains by means of a hump 5. : to copulate with — usually considered vulgar *intransitive verb* 1. a. : to exert oneself : hustle, hurry < will have to hump to get through … tomorrow — Richard Bissell > < keeps me humping even with three assistants — C.E.Lovejoy > < hump along and do your chores — Howard Troyer > b. : to move swiftly or at top speed : race < it's moving southeast and humping toward the north — Springfield (Massachusetts) Daily News > < really humping along ahead of that tail wind — Norman Carlisle > 2. : to rise in a hump : form a hump < the … highway humps and dips in a manner which discourages fast driving — American Guide Series: Connecticut > < humps up to 11,600 feet — A.H.Brown >
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