DCHP-3

hump ((v.))

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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1†v. — Informal

carry (something) with much effort, especially on one's back.

Quotations

1912
My wife humped this widow to the barn, and got warm clothes from her trunks for both of them. She fired out her baggage and the puppy piano, bedded down the widow in clean hay . . . and hit the trail for home.
1933
Here, as everywhere else in the North, the women smoke briar pipes and hump freight as easily as the men.
1959
The editor of the Inland Sentinel inopportunely chose this month to hump his newspaper and his presses up the canyon from Yale to Kamloops. . . .
2†v.

to put forth one's best efforts; hasten.

Quotations

1908
As a matter of fact the Laurier government keeps us all humping to pay for its extravagance.
1918
"An' by heck! et kept ole General Riall a 'humpin' to hold 'em. Dinged if thum Yanks didn't hev four thousand blue coats agin' ourn two thousand. . . ."