Word Finder - humps

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A mound of earth.

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A deformity in humans caused by abnormal curvature of the upper spine.

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(animals) A rounded fleshy mass, such as on a camel or zebu.

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An act of sexual intercourse.

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(with definite article) A bad mood.

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get the hump, have the hump, take the hump, give someone the hump

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A painfully boorish person.

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That guy is such a hump!

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A speed hump.

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A wave that forms in front of an operating hovercraft and impedes progress at low speeds.

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To bend something into a hump.

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To carry (something), especially with some exertion.

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To rhythmically thrust the pelvis in a manner conducive to sexual intercourse

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To prepare for a great exertion; to put forth effort.

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To vex or annoy.

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To shunt wagons / freight cars over the hump in a hump yard.

Between these humps she had placed her doll, which she was giving a ride around the room.

The ordinary cattle of the province is the small humped kind, Bos indicus, and forms an article of export to Russia, the humps, smoked, being much in demand as a delicacy.

He agreed and two weeks ago discovered the joys of speeding humps, raised slabs, potholes and overgrown bushes.

Traffic wardens, road humps, speed cameras - any curb on cars makes us angry.

The young leaves arise on the stem-apex as conical protuberances with winged borders, on which the pinnae appear as rounded humps, usually in basipetal order; the scale-leaves in their young condition resemble fronds, but the lamina remains undeveloped.

Mature males can be one and a half times the length of mature females and the females often have calluses on their dorsal humps.

Appropriate traffic calming measures should involve the use of vertical deflections in the form of speed humps, cushions or raised junctions.

From a selection of 40 vehicles, only 8 traversed the humps without deviating to the middle of the road to avoid them.

Cllr Salinger has refused to allow the council to install any humps in his ward.

Some Councils have seen fit to remove the old humps, others not.

Will speed humps lead to an increase in noise levels?

One resident felt that this whole project was a blot on the landscape; the black humps reminded others of German helmets!

Funny, we thought speed humps were supposed to reduce speeds.

The new system should also allow authorities to use cameras to enforce 20mph limits for roads where humps are not practical.

To avoid leaving any humps and bumps, you may finish off the job with the brush for a really pukka job.

However to make sure we're not too uppity they've made Magdalen Road a one-way street and filled it with jumbo road humps.

However to make sure we 're not too uppity they 've made Magdalen Road a one-way street and filled it with jumbo road humps.

In June 2006, a wheel fell off a bus as it was traversing speed humps on Dunnet Road in Plymouth.

Nearly universally, though, workout music can propel anyone through their routine, helping you over the humps.

The hump (or humps) varies in size according to the condition of the animal, becoming small and flaccid after hard work and poor diet.

Of the two existing generic representatives of the Camelidae (as the family in which they are both included is named), the Old World camels (Camelus) are characterized by their great bodily size, and the presence of one or two fleshy humps, which diminish or increase in size according to the physical condition of the animals themselves.