Words that rhyme with hump

  • bump
    n 1: a lump on the body caused by a blow 2: something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings; "the gun in his pocket made an obvious bulge"; "the hump of a camel"; "he stood on the rocky prominence"; "the occipital protuberance was well developed"; "the bony excrescence between its horns" [syn: bulge, bump, hump, swelling, gibbosity, gibbousness, jut, prominence, protuberance, protrusion, extrusion, excrescence] 3: an impact (as from a collision); "the bump threw him off the bicycle" [syn: blow, bump] v 1: knock against with force or violence; "My car bumped into the tree" [syn: bump, knock] 2: come upon, as if by accident; meet with; "We find this idea in Plato"; "I happened upon the most wonderful bakery not very far from here"; "She chanced upon an interesting book in the bookstore the other day" [syn: find, happen, chance, bump, encounter] 3: dance erotically or dance with the pelvis thrust forward; "bump and grind" 4: assign to a lower position; reduce in rank; "She was demoted because she always speaks up"; "He was broken down to Sergeant" [syn: demote, bump, relegate, break, kick downstairs] [ant: advance, elevate, kick upstairs, promote, raise, upgrade] 5: remove or force from a position of dwelling previously occupied; "The new employee dislodged her by moving into her office space" [syn: dislodge, bump]
  • chump
    n 1: a person who is gullible and easy to take advantage of [syn: chump, fool, gull, mark, patsy, fall guy, sucker, soft touch, mug]
  • clump
    n 1: a grouping of a number of similar things; "a bunch of trees"; "a cluster of admirers" [syn: bunch, clump, cluster, clustering] 2: a compact mass; "a ball of mud caught him on the shoulder" [syn: ball, clod, glob, lump, clump, chunk] 3: a heavy dull sound (as made by impact of heavy objects) [syn: thump, thumping, clump, clunk, thud] v 1: make or move along with a sound as of a horse's hooves striking the ground [syn: clop, clump, clunk, plunk] 2: come together as in a cluster or flock; "The poets constellate in this town every summer" [syn: cluster, constellate, flock, clump] 3: walk clumsily [syn: clump, clomp] 4: gather or cause to gather into a cluster; "She bunched her fingers into a fist" [syn: bunch, bunch up, bundle, cluster, clump]
  • crump
    v 1: make a noise typical of an engine lacking lubricants [syn: crump, thud, scrunch] 2: bombard with heavy shells 3: explode heavily or with a loud dull noise
  • dump
    n 1: a coarse term for defecation; "he took a shit" [syn: shit, dump] 2: a piece of land where waste materials are dumped [syn: dump, garbage dump, trash dump, rubbish dump, wasteyard, waste-yard, dumpsite] 3: (computer science) a copy of the contents of a computer storage device; sometimes used in debugging programs 4: a place where supplies can be stored; "an ammunition dump" v 1: throw away as refuse; "No dumping in these woods!" 2: sever all ties with, usually unceremoniously or irresponsibly; "The company dumped him after many years of service"; "She dumped her boyfriend when she fell in love with a rich man" [syn: dump, ditch] 3: sell at artificially low prices [syn: dump, underprice] 4: drop (stuff) in a heap or mass; "The truck dumped the garbage in the street" 5: fall abruptly; "It plunged to the bottom of the well" [syn: plunge, dump] 6: knock down with force; "He decked his opponent" [syn: deck, coldcock, dump, knock down, floor]
  • flump
    v 1: fall heavily [syn: flump, flump down] 2: set (something or oneself) down with or as if with a noise; "He planked the money on the table"; "He planked himself into the sofa" [syn: plank, flump, plonk, plop, plunk, plump down, plunk down, plump]
  • frump
    n 1: a dull unattractive unpleasant girl or woman; "she got a reputation as a frump"; "she's a real dog" [syn: frump, dog]
  • grump
    n 1: a bad-tempered person [syn: grouch, grump, crank, churl, crosspatch]
  • jump
    n 1: a sudden and decisive increase; "a jump in attendance" [syn: jump, leap] 2: an abrupt transition; "a successful leap from college to the major leagues" [syn: leap, jump, saltation] 3: (film) an abrupt transition from one scene to another 4: a sudden involuntary movement; "he awoke with a start" [syn: startle, jump, start] 5: descent with a parachute; "he had done a lot of parachuting in the army" [syn: jump, parachuting] 6: the act of jumping; propelling yourself off the ground; "he advanced in a series of jumps"; "the jumping was unexpected" [syn: jump, jumping] v 1: move forward by leaps and bounds; "The horse bounded across the meadow"; "The child leapt across the puddle"; "Can you jump over the fence?" [syn: jump, leap, bound, spring] 2: move or jump suddenly, as if in surprise or alarm; "She startled when I walked into the room" [syn: startle, jump, start] 3: make a sudden physical attack on; "The muggers jumped the woman in the fur coat" 4: increase suddenly and significantly; "Prices jumped overnight" 5: be highly noticeable [syn: leap out, jump out, jump, stand out, stick out] 6: enter eagerly into; "He jumped into the game" 7: rise in rank or status; "Her new novel jumped high on the bestseller list" [syn: rise, jump, climb up] 8: jump down from an elevated point; "the parachutist didn't want to jump"; "every year, hundreds of people jump off the Golden Gate bridge"; "the widow leapt into the funeral pyre" [syn: jump, leap, jump off] 9: run off or leave the rails; "the train derailed because a cow was standing on the tracks" [syn: derail, jump] 10: jump from an airplane and descend with a parachute [syn: chute, parachute, jump] 11: cause to jump or leap; "the trainer jumped the tiger through the hoop" [syn: jump, leap] 12: start (a car engine whose battery is dead) by connecting it to another car's battery [syn: jumpstart, jump-start, jump] 13: bypass; "He skipped a row in the text and so the sentence was incomprehensible" [syn: jump, pass over, skip, skip over] 14: pass abruptly from one state or topic to another; "leap into fame"; "jump to a conclusion"; "jump from one thing to another" [syn: leap, jump] 15: go back and forth; swing back and forth between two states or conditions [syn: alternate, jump]
  • lump
    n 1: a compact mass; "a ball of mud caught him on the shoulder" [syn: ball, clod, glob, lump, clump, chunk] 2: an abnormal protuberance or localized enlargement [syn: swelling, puffiness, lump] 3: an awkward stupid person [syn: lout, clod, stumblebum, goon, oaf, lubber, lummox, lump, gawk] 4: a large piece of something without definite shape; "a hunk of bread"; "a lump of coal" [syn: hunk, lump] v 1: put together indiscriminately; "lump together all the applicants" [syn: lump, chunk] 2: group or chunk together in a certain order or place side by side [syn: collocate, lump, chunk]
  • overtrump
    v 1: play a trump higher than (one previously played) to the trick
  • plump
    adv 1: straight down especially heavily or abruptly; "the anchor fell plump into the sea"; "we dropped the rock plump into the water" adj 1: sufficiently fat so as to have a pleasing fullness of figure; "a chubby child"; "pleasingly plump"; [syn: chubby, embonpoint, plump] n 1: the sound of a sudden heavy fall v 1: drop sharply; "The stock market plummeted" [syn: plummet, plump] 2: set (something or oneself) down with or as if with a noise; "He planked the money on the table"; "He planked himself into the sofa" [syn: plank, flump, plonk, plop, plunk, plump down, plunk down, plump] 3: make fat or plump; "We will plump out that poor starving child" [syn: fatten, fat, flesh out, fill out, plump, plump out, fatten out, fatten up] 4: give support (to) or make a choice (of) one out of a group or number; "I plumped for the losing candidates" [syn: plump, go]
  • pump
    n 1: a mechanical device that moves fluid or gas by pressure or suction 2: the hollow muscular organ located behind the sternum and between the lungs; its rhythmic contractions move the blood through the body; "he stood still, his heart thumping wildly" [syn: heart, pump, ticker] 3: a low-cut shoe without fastenings v 1: operate like a pump; move up and down, like a handle or a pedal; "pump the gas pedal" 2: deliver forth; "pump bullets into the dummy" 3: draw or pour with a pump 4: supply in great quantities; "Pump money into a project" 5: flow intermittently 6: move up and down; "The athlete pumps weights in the gym" 7: raise (gases or fluids) with a pump 8: question persistently; "She pumped the witnesses for information"
  • rump
    n 1: the part of an animal that corresponds to the human buttocks [syn: hindquarters, croup, croupe, rump] 2: fleshy hindquarters; behind the loin and above the round 3: the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on; "he deserves a good kick in the butt"; "are you going to sit on your fanny and do nothing?" [syn: buttocks, nates, arse, butt, backside, bum, buns, can, fundament, hindquarters, hind end, keister, posterior, prat, rear, rear end, rump, stern, seat, tail, tail end, tooshie, tush, bottom, behind, derriere, fanny, ass]
  • slump
    n 1: a noticeable deterioration in performance or quality; "the team went into a slump"; "a gradual slack in output"; "a drop-off in attendance"; "a falloff in quality" [syn: slump, slack, drop-off, falloff, falling off] 2: a long-term economic state characterized by unemployment and low prices and low levels of trade and investment [syn: depression, slump, economic crisis] v 1: assume a drooping posture or carriage [syn: slump, slouch] 2: fall or sink heavily; "He slumped onto the couch"; "My spirits sank" [syn: slump, slide down, sink] 3: fall heavily or suddenly; decline markedly; "The real estate market fell off" [syn: slump, fall off, sink] 4: go down in value; "the stock market corrected"; "prices slumped" [syn: decline, slump, correct]
  • stump
    n 1: the base part of a tree that remains standing after the tree has been felled [syn: stump, tree stump] 2: the part of a limb or tooth that remains after the rest is removed 3: (cricket) any of three upright wooden posts that form the wicket 4: a platform raised above the surrounding level to give prominence to the person on it [syn: dais, podium, pulpit, rostrum, ambo, stump, soapbox] v 1: cause to be perplexed or confounded; "This problem stumped her" [syn: stump, mix up] 2: walk heavily; "The men stomped through the snow in their heavy boots" [syn: stomp, stamp, stump] 3: travel through a district and make political speeches; "the candidate stumped the Northeast" 4: remove tree stumps from; "stump a field"
  • sump
    n 1: an oil reservoir in an internal combustion engine 2: a well or other hole in which water has collected 3: a covered cistern; waste water and sewage flow into it [syn: cesspool, cesspit, sink, sump]
  • thump
    n 1: a heavy dull sound (as made by impact of heavy objects) [syn: thump, thumping, clump, clunk, thud] 2: a heavy blow with the hand v 1: move rhythmically; "Her heart was beating fast" [syn: beat, pound, thump] 2: make a dull sound; "the knocker thudded against the front door" [syn: thud, thump] 3: hit hard with the hand, fist, or some heavy instrument; "the salesman pounded the door knocker"; "a bible-thumping Southern Baptist" [syn: thump, pound, poke]
  • trump
    n 1: a playing card in the suit that has been declared trumps; "the ace of trumps is a sure winner" [syn: trump, trump card] 2: (card games) the suit that has been declared to rank above all other suits for the duration of the hand; "clubs were declared trumps"; "a trump can take a trick even when a card of a different suit is led" 3: a brass musical instrument with a brilliant tone; has a narrow tube and a flared bell and is played by means of valves [syn: cornet, horn, trumpet, trump] v 1: produce a sound as if from a trumpet 2: get the better of; "the goal was to best the competition" [syn: outdo, outflank, trump, best, scoop] 3: play a trump [syn: trump, ruff] 4: proclaim or announce with or as if with a fanfare [syn: trump, trump out]
  • ump
    n 1: an official at a baseball game [syn: umpire, ump]
  • mugwump
    n 1: someone who bolted from the Republican Party during the U.S. presidential election of 1884 2: a neutral or uncommitted person (especially in politics) [syn: mugwump, independent, fencesitter]
  • stumpe
  • stumpp
  • gump
  • gumpp
  • lumpp
  • kump
  • scrump
  • outjump
  • cryopump

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