hump
verb/hʌmp/
/hʌmp/
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they hump | /hʌmp/ /hʌmp/ |
| he / she / it humps | /hʌmps/ /hʌmps/ |
| past simple humped | /hʌmpt/ /hʌmpt/ |
| past participle humped | /hʌmpt/ /hʌmpt/ |
| -ing form humping | /ˈhʌmpɪŋ/ /ˈhʌmpɪŋ/ |
- [transitive] hump something (+ adv./prep.) (British English) to carry something heavy
- I've been humping furniture around all day.
- [transitive, intransitive] hump (somebody) (taboo, slang) to have sex with somebody
Word Originearly 18th cent.: probably related to Low German humpe ‘hump’, also to Dutch homp, Low German humpe ‘lump, hunk (of bread)’.
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