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Synonyms for hump

  • verb
  • noun

Most common

sleep with ride rut bonk walk trek bother shoulder

Synonyms by meaning

Verb

1. Ride

get it on, love, ride, bang, bed, rut, bonk, have sex, have it away, screw, make love, do it, know, sleep with, sleep together, copulate with, shag, lie with, eff, jazz, copulate, fuck vulgar

2. Walk

walk, trek, hike

3. Bother

bother, irk, rile

Other

shoulder, hunch over informal, bone, jump, pork, tote, heft

Noun

1. Protuberance

protuberance, bulge, bump, protrusion, swelling, jut, prominence, extrusion, excrescence, gibbousness, gibbosity, projection

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

hunch, humpback, hunchback

Other

make-out, bad humor, ill humor

Definitions

  1. v. 1

    To bend something into a hump.

  2. v. 2

    To carry (something), especially with some exertion.

  3. n. 1

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

  4. n. 2

    A mound of earth.

Related words

Word family
hummock humpathon humpback humpless humpsore humpy
Phrases
hump and dump dowager's hump road hump speed hump hump it

Forms

Plural
humps → protuberances, bulges, bumps, protrusions…
Past participle
humped
e.g. humped → loved, ridden, banged, bedded…

Example sentences

  • ride Can you give me a ride to the office on Wednesday?
  • rut Tom thinks that we're in some kind of rut.
  • bonk Go to sleep or I will bonk you with this cast iron pan.
  • walk Another ten minutes' walk brought us to the shore.
  • trek Our universe is the Mirror Universe from Star Trek.

Popularity over time

Word1850 → 2019Trend
humpsteady
riderising
rutrising
bonkrising
walkrising

Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.

By length

3 letters
bed1, eff, rut1, jut1, irk1
4 letters
know1, love1, fuck1, walk1, ride1, jump1, bone1, bang1, jazz1, trek1, hike1, pork1, bump1, tote1
5 letters
screw1, bulge1, hunch1
6 letters
bother2
8 letters
shoulder2, swelling2, humpback2, copulate3
9 letters
extrusion3, hunchback2, gibbosity
10 letters
projection3, prominence3, protrusion
11 letters
excrescence, gibbousness
12 letters
protuberance4

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (bother2 = 2 syllables).