Usually means: A small, compact mass formed.
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General (29 matching dictionaries)
  1. lump: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. lump: Merriam-Webster
  3. lump, lump, lump: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. lump, lump: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. lump, the lump: Collins English Dictionary
  6. lump: Vocabulary.com
  7. Lump, lump: Wordnik
  8. lump: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. lump: Wiktionary
  10. lump: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. lump: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. lump: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. lump: Dictionary.com
  14. lump (n.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. lump: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. LUMP (band), Lump (album), Lump (dog), Lump (song), Lump, The Lump: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Lump: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. lump: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. lump: Rhymezone
  20. lump: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. lump: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. Lump: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  23. lump: FreeDictionary.org
  24. lump: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. lump: TheFreeDictionary.com
  26. lump: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  27. lump (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary

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

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. lump: Encyclopedia

Medicine (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. lump: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Lump: Merck Manuals
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  4. Lump: Breast Cancer Glossary of Medical Terms
  5. lump: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. lump (n.): Cats
  2. LUMP: Acronym Finder
  3. lump: Idioms

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. lump, lump, lump, lump, lump, lump: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Lump: Dublin Slang and Phrasebook
  3. the lump: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Book Binding (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  Something that protrudes, sticks out, or sticks together; a cluster or blob; a mound or mass of no particular shape.
noun:  A swelling or nodule of tissue under the skin or in an internal part of the body.
noun:  A group, set, or unit.
noun:  A small, shaped mass of sugar, typically about a teaspoonful.
noun:  A dull or lazy person.
noun:  A fat person.
noun:  (informal, as plural) A beating or verbal abuse.
noun:  A projection beneath the breech end of a gun barrel.
noun:  A kind of fish, the lumpsucker.
noun:  (obsolete, slang) Food given to a tramp to be eaten on the road.
noun:  (obsolete, slang) The workhouse.
verb:  (transitive) To treat as a single unit; to group together in a casual or chaotic manner (as if forming an ill-defined lump of the items).
verb:  (transitive) To bear (a heavy or awkward burden); to carry (something unwieldy) from one place to another.
verb:  (transitive) To burden (someone) with an undesired task or responsibility.
verb:  (transitive, slang) To hit or strike (a person).
verb:  (intransitive) To form a lump or lumps.

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