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Meanings of hump up in English

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Usage of hump up in English
1
Don't hump up the left shoulder, and don't turn the shoulders to the right.
The Plattsburg Manual: A Handbook for Military Training
2
What do you suppose is making it hump up in the middle, if he isn't there?
The Pony Rider Boys in Montana; Or, The Mystery of the Old Custe...
3
Gladstone did walk into Disraeli about that, and it was said the Queen got her hump up about it.
The Shellback's Progress / In the Nineteenth Century
4
This tendency to " hump up" the back is very noticeable in domestic cattle and horses during rainy weather.
The Extermination of the American Bison
5
She liked to see them hump up their backs, and measure off the inches of her white checked apron with their little green bodies.
The Stories Mother Nature Told Her Children
6
The spine bowed, humped up, and the flesh split along the backbone.
Stinger
7
As the door opened, a figure, humped up and masked, alighted.
The Exploits of Elaine
8
Slidell and Rinaldi started humping up the block, legs pumping, ties flying backward.
Bare Bones
9
It was just the whole fucking ocean humping up and crawling onto shore.
Nemesis Game
10
Stingy's shoulders were all humped up, and his eight claws looked very ugly.
The Cheerful Cricket and Others
11
The man humped up in a little shuddering spasm and then lay still.
Blood Meridian
12
A moment later the fragments humped up and became the creature's twisted, bony back.
The waste lands
13
Kemp stood and looked at the figure humped up under the light silk cover.
The Trumpeter Swan
14
I humped up 600 feet of line and started rigging.
Rock and Ice Magazine
15
Squat, windowless stores and warehouses punctuate the desolation, snow already humped up before them.
The Apocalypse Codex
16
We were alongside a large transport badly humped up amidships.
Blood Brothers: A Medic's Sketch Book
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