humps in English

noun

1

a rounded protuberance found on the back of a camel or other animal or as an abnormality on a person's back.

He provides a sketch of a creature with the head of an elephant, a fishlike body with a camel hump , four legs like a lion, and a forked tail like a fish.

synonyms: protuberance, prominence, lump, bump, knob, protrusion, projection, bulge, swelling, hunch, growth, outgrowth

2

a rounded raised mass of earth or land.

If one were to travel past the countless monolithic factories and coal pits of the world's main continent, and onto where the equator was once, one would find a small hump of earth.

verb

1

lift or carry (a heavy object) with difficulty.

he continued to hump cases up and down the hotel corridor

2

make hump-shaped.

the cat humped himself into a different shape and purred

3

have sexual intercourse with.

noun

• protuberance, prominence, lump, bump, knob, protrusion, projection, bulge, swelling, hunch, growth, outgrowth
• protuberance, prominence, excrescence, jut, swelling, gibbosity, bump, gibbousness, protrusion, extrusion, bulge

verb

• bed, lie with, get laid, have it off, sleep with, love, jazz, sleep together, bonk, bang, have sex, make out, eff, know, screw, be intimate, make love, fuck, do it, have intercourse
• hunch

Use "humps" in a sentence

1. And their supplies on the humps of camels.

2. Bactrian camels have two humps rather than the single hump of their Arabian relatives.

3. 12 Some types of camel have two humps and others have one.

4. Bactrian camels have two humps on their backs where they store fat

5. b) Vehicles not allowed on shunting humps by reason of their length

6. Synonyms for Copulates include mates, fornicates, humps, breeds, screws, shags, bonks, couples, lays and beds

7. The Bactrian camel has two humps on its back, in contrast to the Dromedary which has one

8. While some dunes may appear to be just small humps, others reach heights of 1,300 feet [400 m].

9. (1) Formulae are based on the vehicle gauge for tracks on marshalling humps as shown in Appendix B3

10. The most noticeable difference between the dromedary and the Bactrian is the number of humps—the Bactrian has two

11. 28 Even with the magnification of a monocular, I can barely make out indistinct humps gliding through the darkening water.

12. It comes with two humps unlike the traditional camel that comes with a single hump, hence the name the Bactrian camel

13. Clawing immediately restricts the water shedding ability of the shingle and reduces the potential service life of the shingle because it creates humps that may act as a dam that allows water to accumulate and soak into the

14. The Bifaces and Biface fragments recovered from the pit feature seemed to have been rejected as a result of manufacturing errors such as humps or notches that would not allow them to be thinned further, or having been broken during the manufacturing process