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humped

/hʌmpt/

humped is the past participle of hump.

Meaning of hump

Verb

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

  1. (transitive) To bend something into a hump.
    • The cattle were very uncomfortable, standing humped up in the bushes.1885, Theodore Roosevelt, Hunting Trips of a Ranchman
  2. (ambitransitive) To carry (something), especially with some exertion.
    • For travellers have to carry bags, / And swagmen have to hump their swags / Like bottle-ohs or ragmen.1918, Norman Lindsay, The Magic Pudding, page 14
    Synonyms:
    heft
  3. (ambitransitive, slang, vulgar) To dry-hump.
    • Stop humping the table, you sicko.
  4. (ambitransitive, slang, vulgar) To have sex (with).
    Synonyms:
    bang
  5. (US, dated, slang) To exert oneself; to make an effort.
    • Lessons are keeping me humping now, and will probably do so all summer.1917, Hart Crane, letter, in Complete Poems & Selected Letters, Library of America 2006
  6. (dated, slang) To vex or annoy.
    Synonyms:
    bother

See all 18 meanings of hump

Adjective

humped (comparative more humped, superlative most humped)

  1. Having a hump or humps, or, in combination, a hump or humps of the specified number or type.
    • a humped cow, a humped curve, a two-humped camel

Forms of humped

comparativemore humped
superlativemost humped

Words formed from humped

Phrases with humped

Words that rhyme with humped

Questions about humped

What does humped mean?
Humped means having a hump or humps, or, in combination, a hump or humps of the specified number or type.
What is humped the past participle of?
Humped is the past participle of hump.
What part of speech is humped?
Humped is an adjective.
How do you pronounce humped?
Humped is pronounced /hʌmpt/.

Words near humped in the dictionary

  1. humpbacking
  2. humpbacks
  3. Humpdashian
  4. humpday
  5. humpdays
  6. humped
  7. humped and dumped
  8. humpedness
  9. humpee
  10. humpees
  11. humper

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Adapted from Wiktionary: humped (page history and authors); 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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