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hump
noun- a fit of sulks, a bad mood, depression UK, 1873
- So I says to this Jill bird, “Here, d’you screw?” Just to get her hump up, like. But she never batted an eyelid[.] — John Peter Jones, Feather Pluckers, p. 44, 1964
- — Angela Devlin, Prison Patter, p. 63, 1996
- Oi! Frankie! I know you’ve got the hump. — Greg Williams, Diamond Geezers, p. 57, 1997
- an offensive or despicable person US, 1963
- Didya hear what them humps in Congress did? They voted a special tax bill for themselves so that they don’t have to pay any more taxes. — William Cavnitz, One Police Plaza, p. 337, 1984
- “What’re you doing for me, you fucking hump?” — Mark Baker, Cops, p. 304, 1985
- Pull that shit with old ladies. Not with me, you fuckin’ hump. — David Chase, The Sopranos: Selected Scripts from Three Seasons, p. 150, 20 September 1999
- a dolt, a dull person US, 1963
- The hump pleads guilty, off he goes. — Leonard Shecter and William Phillips, On the Pad, p. 84, 1973
- You fuckin’ hump–we went to question you, you stumbled, fell against me. — Edwin Torres, Carlito’s Way, p. 73, 1975
- “Anyway,” Garcia said, “this hump Bloodworth says he heard there’s some connection between Bellamy and Sparky Harper.” — Carl Hiaasen, Tourist Season, p. 89, 1986
- Which doesn’t seem too likely with those Armenian humps holed up with Fed surveillance outside their house. — James Ellroy, White Jazz, p. 257, 1992
- an act of sexual intercourse US, 1918
- “Say, I bet you ain’t even had your first hump yet!” — Charles Perry, Portrait of a Young Man Drowning, p. 59, 1962
- “I’ll stand for you giving your wife a hump now and then.” — Jacqueline Susann, Valley of the Dolls, p. 496, 1966
- “Why don’t you go into the business, Judd? Sell it outright. So much a hump.” — Burt Hirschfield, Fire Island, p. 442, 1970
- I took his twenty and I took him to bed, and we had our little hump, and he got his twenty dollars’ worth. — John Warren Wells, Tricks of the Trade, p. 50, 1970
- If you are the dumper, make this last hump so enjoyable that your ex will forget how much he hates your guts. — Anka Radakovich, The Wild Girls Club, p. 41, 1994
- a Camel cigarette US
- — James Harris, A Convict’s Dictionary, p. 33, 1989
- a bridge UK
Citizens’ band radio slang. - — Peter Chippindale, The British CB Book, p. 156, 1981
- the air route over the Himalaya Mountains during World War 2 US, 1942
- Civilian pilots were the first to fly the “hump” missions that kept the Chinese army linked to its U.S. supply bases in China. — Insight, p. 39, 17 April 1989
- the middle section of a prison sentence US
- — Joseph E. Ragen and Charles Finston, Inside the World’s Toughest Prison, p. 804, 1962: “Penitentiary and underworld glossary”
- a large wave US
Surfer usage. - When you graduate from Malibu you move down to San Onofre or Tressle where the real big humps come blasting in. — Frederick Kohner, Gidget, p. 4, 1957
- — Grant W. Kuhns, On Surfing, p. 118, 1963
- a military combat patrol US, 1971
Recorded in Australia in the C19, but not again until the US war in Vietnam. - The first day’s hump was to be of moderate length, 6000 meters, or six “clicks,” and there was a road most of the way so it should have been easy, a skate. — Charles Anderson, The Grunts, p. 35, 1976
- You ‘bush in this area near that ol’ Buddhist temple we passed on the hump in. — Platoon, 1986
- “Fuck the LT, fuck this trail, fuck this hump ... and fuck the Army.” — Cherokee Paul McDonald, Into the Green, p. 112, 2001
- a lookout during a crime US
- — Vincent J. Monteleone, Criminal Slang, p. 126, 1949
- in circus usage, a camel US, 1926
- — Don Wilmeth, The Language of American Popular Entertainment, p. 136, 1981
▶ over the hump
while gambling, having won enough to be gambling now with the house’s money US- — The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences, p. 128, May 1950
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