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lump
/lʌmp/
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What does lump mean?
noun
- Something that protrudes, sticks out, or sticks together; a cluster or blob; a mound or mass of no particular shape.
- A swelling or nodule of tissue under the skin or in an internal part of the body.
- A group, set, or unit.
More meanings (13)
noun
- A small, shaped mass of sugar, typically about a teaspoonful.
- A dull or lazy person.
- A fat person.
- (informal) A beating or verbal abuse.
- A projection beneath the breech end of a gun barrel.
- A kind of fish, the lumpsucker.
- (obsolete, slang) Food given to a tramp to be eaten on the road.
- (obsolete, slang) The workhouse.
verb
- 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).
- To bear (a heavy or awkward burden); to carry (something unwieldy) from one place to another.
- To burden (someone) with an undesired task or responsibility.
- (slang) To hit or strike (a person).
- To form a lump or lumps.
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IPA pronunciation
/lʌmp/
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He saw with astonishment, as he put another lump of sugar into his cup, that this letter bore a New York postmark.
“He says he’s always thinking that if he should feel a lump coming he should go crazy and scream himself to death.”
More book examples (3)
We should have to reject them in a lump, and yet we cannot, perhaps, do so without being ashamed of our presumption.
But, without waiting for this final purge, this lump, there are, from time to time, slight excretions of fluid, clear as water.
This stone was about the size and something the shape of a small lemon, looking like a smoothed lump of semi-transparent crystal.