hump
驼峰,驼背,驼铃,驼色
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Definitions
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- : a rounded protuberance, especially a fleshy protuberance on the back, as that due to abnormal curvature of the spine in humans, or that normally present in certain animals, as the camel or bison.
- : Physical Geography. a low, rounded rise of ground; hummock. a mountain or mountain range.
- : Railroads. a raised area down which cars pushed to its crest roll by gravity and momentum for automatic sorting through a series of preset switches.
- : Slang: Vulgar. an act or instance of sexual intercourse. a partner in sexual intercourse.
- : the hump, British Slang.a fit of depression or bad humor: to get the hump. the Himalayas.
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- : to raise in a hump; hunch: The cat humped its back.
- : Railroads. to sort by means of a hump.
- : Informal. to exert in a great effort.
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Examples
The problem is getting over the disgust hump, because people don’t realize they’ll cease to be disgusted once they get used to something.
They were about how animals got their famous features, like the camel’s hump and the leopard’s spots.
The vehicles will have longer wheelbases with shorter overhangs, which means the steering wheel and pedals can come forward, and there’s no hump down the center of the cabin to accommodate the drivetrain.
If Democrats can get lower-propensity voters in the Rio Grande Valley and the big metro areas to turn out, I’m convinced we’d get over the hump.
It’s no longer Wednesday, but you should still check out our OZY hump day playlist.
Diplomatic dispatches at the time, written by men who had no reason to lie to their own rulers, reported no hump or withered arm.
Also 2004: John Kerry kept it close but never got over the hump.
Despite 20 years of cycling between expectation and disappointment, I hump along with that aim in mind.
In the former Bill Hurt longed to hump you and in the latter a large dog did just that in your role as an animal trainer.
Of course, not even a new Contract With America may be enough to help Republicans over the hump in 2010.
She wore an old poke bonnet and carried a crooked stick, and there seemed to be a upon her back.