Usually means: Rounded protrusions on surfaces, bodies.
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General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. humps: Merriam-Webster
  2. humps: Collins English Dictionary
  3. humps: Vocabulary.com
  4. Humps, humps: Wordnik
  5. humps: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. humps: Wiktionary
  7. humps: Dictionary.com
  8. humps: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. The Humps: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. humps: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. humps: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. humps: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. humps: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. humps: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. humps: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Hump)

noun:  A mound of earth.
noun:  A speed bump or speed hump.
noun:  A deformity in humans caused by abnormal curvature of the upper spine.
noun:  (US, animals) A rounded fleshy mass, such as on a camel or zebu.
noun:  (vulgar, slang) An act of sexual intercourse.
noun:  (British, slang, with definite article) A bad mood.
noun:  (slang) A painfully boorish person.
noun:  A wave that forms in front of an operating hovercraft and impedes progress at low speeds.
verb:  (transitive) To bend something into a hump.
verb:  (transitive, intransitive) To carry (something), especially with some exertion.
verb:  To rhythmically thrust the pelvis in a manner conducive to sexual intercourse.
verb:  (transitive, intransitive) To dry-hump.
verb:  (vulgar, slang, transitive, intransitive) To have sex (with).
verb:  (US, slang, dated) To exert oneself; to make an effort.
verb:  (slang, dated) To vex or annoy.
verb:  (rail transport) To shunt wagons / freight cars over the hump in a hump yard.
noun:  (historical, World War II, slang) The Himalayas (a mountain range in Asia), as the challenge for the supply route between India and China.
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