Usually means: Raised curve on a surface.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. hump, the hump: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. hump: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. hump: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. hump, the hump: Collins English Dictionary
  5. hump: Vocabulary.com
  6. Hump, hump: Wordnik
  7. hump: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Hump, hump: Wiktionary
  9. hump: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. hump: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. hump: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. hump, the hump: Dictionary.com
  13. hump: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. hump: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. HuMP, Hump (railway), Hump, The Hump (Alberta), The Hump: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Hump: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. hump: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. hump: Rhymezone
  19. hump: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. hump: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. hump: Free Dictionary
  22. hump: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. hump: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. hump: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. hump: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
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  3. hump: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  2. hump: Idioms

Slang (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. hump, hump, hump, hump: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. hump: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  3. American-Australian Slang Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. The Hump: A Seattle Lexicon
  5. The Hump: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)

(Note: See humped as well.)

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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A mound of earth.
noun:  A speed bump or speed hump.
noun:  A deformity in humans caused by abnormal curvature of the upper spine.
noun:  (animals) A rounded fleshy mass, such as on a camel or zebu.
noun:  (vulgar, slang) An act of sexual intercourse.
noun:  (British, slang, with definite article) A bad mood.
noun:  (slang) A painfully boorish person.
noun:  A wave that forms in front of an operating hovercraft and impedes progress at low speeds.
verb:  (transitive) To bend something into a hump.
verb:  (transitive, intransitive) To carry (something), especially with some exertion.
verb:  To rhythmically thrust the pelvis in a manner conducive to sexual intercourse.
verb:  (transitive, intransitive) To dry-hump.
verb:  (vulgar, slang, transitive, intransitive) To have sex (with).
verb:  (US, slang, dated) To exert oneself; to make an effort.
verb:  (slang, dated) To vex or annoy.
verb:  (rail transport) To shunt wagons / freight cars over the hump in a hump yard.
noun:  (historical, World War II, slang) The Himalayas (a mountain range in Asia), as the challenge for the supply route between India and China.

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