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dry hump

dry hump is the alternative spelling of dry-hump.

Meaning of dry-hump

Verb

dry-hump (third-person singular simple present dry-humps, present participle dry-humping, simple past and past participle dry-humped)

  1. (ambitransitive, slang) To simulate sexual intercourse without the genitalia directly touching, i.e. while wearing clothes, or by rubbing the genitals against something else.
    • Okay… Okay, I-I-I’m still a little confused here. Did you actually climb Mount Everest? Or did you just dry-hump the side of it and then go home? “It was great! Now smell my finger! There’s still some mountain air on it!” What is wrong with you⁉2016, Tim Carvell [et al.], “Third Parties”, in Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, season 3, episode 26, John Oliver (actor), Warner Bros. Television, via HBO
    Synonyms:
    dry-fuck

Forms of dry hump

third-person singular presentdry humps
present participledry humping
past participledry humped
pastdry humped

Questions about dry hump

What is dry hump the alternative spelling of?
Dry hump is the alternative spelling of dry-hump.

Words near dry hump in the dictionary

  1. dry hopped
  2. dry hopping
  3. dry hops
  4. dry humor
  5. dry humour
  6. dry hump
  7. dry humped
  8. dry humping
  9. dry humps
  10. dry hydrant
  11. dry hydrants

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Adapted from Wiktionary: dry hump (page history and authors); dry-hump (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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