Collocations for "hump"
Common phrases and expressions where native English speakers use the word "hump" in context.
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hump
ⓘMost examples are given in US English. We have labeled exceptions as UK.v
- UK: hump [cases, boxes, suitcases, furniture]
- UK: humping [cases] around
- UK: hump [heavy, large] [cases]
- UK: hump [back and forth, up and down, to and fro]
- UK: hump it around the [house, office, school, airport]
- UK: (having to) hump (it) from once place to another
- UK: hump it into and out of the [van, store, warehouse]
- UK: humped his [body, back]
- sexually explicit: [the couple, the lovers, the animals, they] were humping all night
- sexually explicit: were humping (each other) [wildly, passionately]
- the camel's hump
- the camel has two humps
- the camel has one hump
- a hump in the [street, road, path, field]
- has a hump on his back
- slang: we're (almost) over the hump now
- UK, slang: I'm really getting the hump with you!
- UK, slang: is really giving me the hump!
- UK, slang: has got the hump about [how, what, who]
- a [two] -hump camel
- informal: it's almost hump day
'hump' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):