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lump

/lʌmp/

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What does lump mean?

noun

  1. Something that protrudes, sticks out, or sticks together; a cluster or blob; a mound or mass of no particular shape.
  2. A swelling or nodule of tissue under the skin or in an internal part of the body.
  3. A group, set, or unit.
More meanings (13)

noun

  1. A small, shaped mass of sugar, typically about a teaspoonful.
  2. A dull or lazy person.
  3. A fat person.
  4. (informal) A beating or verbal abuse.
  5. A projection beneath the breech end of a gun barrel.
  6. A kind of fish, the lumpsucker.
  7. (obsolete, slang) Food given to a tramp to be eaten on the road.
  8. (obsolete, slang) The workhouse.

verb

  1. 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).
  2. To bear (a heavy or awkward burden); to carry (something unwieldy) from one place to another.
  3. To burden (someone) with an undesired task or responsibility.
  4. (slang) To hit or strike (a person).
  5. To form a lump or lumps.

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IPA pronunciation

/lʌmp/

CMU Pronouncing Dictionary

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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.
Willa CatherThe Song of the LarkProject Gutenberg ebook #44
“He says he’s always thinking that if he should feel a lump coming he should go crazy and scream himself to death.”
Frances Hodgson BurnettThe Secret GardenProject Gutenberg ebook #113
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.
Carl von ClausewitzOn WarTranslated by J. J. (James John) GrahamProject Gutenberg ebook #1946
But, without waiting for this final purge, this lump, there are, from time to time, slight excretions of fluid, clear as water.
Jean-Henri FabreThe Life of the Fly; With Which are Interspersed Some Chapters of AutobiographyTranslated by Alexander Teixeira de MattosProject Gutenberg ebook #3422
This stone was about the size and something the shape of a small lemon, looking like a smoothed lump of semi-transparent crystal.
K. Langloh (Katie Langloh) ParkerThe Euahlayi Tribe: A Study of Aboriginal Life in AustraliaProject Gutenberg ebook #3819